About the Journal

Open Access Policy

The Journal Volunteer Outreach, Innovation, and Community Empowerment (VOICE) is an open-access journal, meaning that all content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles in this journal without prior permission from the publisher or the author, in accordance with the Creative Commons license. If users utilize content from this journal for research or article writing, they are required to cite the author’s name in the work produced.

Peer Review Process

The editor will first verify the manuscript format and ensure its alignment with the journal’s focus and scope. Authors will be required to fulfill submission requirements, such as completing a statement of originality and attaching an ethics clearance letter for original research or written consent for case reports. Manuscripts will be checked for similarity using Turnitin. If the similarity index exceeds 20%, the editor will request the author to revise the manuscript. The editor will then assign reviewers to evaluate the manuscript content. The review process is conducted under a double-blind policy, meaning the identities of both reviewers and authors are kept confidential from each other. Based on the reviewers’ recommendations, the editor will decide to:

  1. Accept the manuscript without revisions, or

  2. Accept the manuscript with minor revisions, or

  3. Return the manuscript for major revisions, or

  4. Reject the submission.

Copyright & Licensing

Copyright
Authors who publish their scholarly work in this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License, allowing others to share the work with acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and its initial publication in this journal.

  • Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., posting it to an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their personal websites) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Articles and all related material are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

License
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

You are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.

  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

  • ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

  • No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Plagiarism Policy

All submitted articles will be checked for plagiarism using Turnitin or iThenticate. The Journal Volunteer Outreach, Innovation, and Community Empowerment (VOICE) sets a maximum similarity threshold of 20%. Articles with a similarity score above 20% will be rejected and will not be considered for publication in the journal.