Important Announcement from Nepalpress to our Readers and Patrons

For the benefit of our readers within the nation and abroad, starting from September 2024, Nepalpress is starting a new column on its online platform with the title “Feature Articles” to encourage eminent scholars, researchers, and thinktanks to express their ideas, thoughts and viewpoints on various burning issues that affects human society. Such issues could be related to socioeconomics, environment, agriculture, natural resource management and conservation, governance, urban and regional planning, social empowerment, community development, or allied disciplines, including other topics of wider concern and interest. The main purpose behind this move is to showcase well researched work of intellectuals to spur policy debates and discussions among the wider public and make cogently written, thoughtful and persuasive ideas to get it published for a wider reach. The other important benefit of the Feature articles column is to disseminate authentic work of scholars so that their accumulated knowledge and expressed views are freely available to all, with the hope of creating a healthy, peaceful, and vibrant society. We hope our esteemed readers and online visitors will welcome this initiative.

Note for potential authors of feature articles:

• Please note that the piece of work is originally written (preferably in the universally recognized English language) and not published elsewhere before.
• The length of the article could range from 1200 – 2500 words excluding references
• The sources of ideas used while creating the article or piece of work should be acknowledged in a separate section, usually towards the end of the article.
• We encourage authors to use in-text citations in the main write-up and bibliography of references at the end of the article. The citation style is based on the author’s own preference, as long as a uniform pattern or style of citation is followed.
• Any form of plagiarism is discouraged and will be notified to contributors if found. Plagiarized work of others will not be published in our online platform.
• Articles will be thoroughly assessed for their authenticity and originality by the editorial team of Nepalpress before they get published.
• Articles that are beyond the scope of the editorial team’s knowledge and technical expertise will be sent to external peer-reviewers before getting published on our platform.
• Tables, graphs, charts or maps are discouraged in the article, but if absolutely needed, one or two could be used.
• Published articles may be remunerated in kind or cash prizes to authors for recognition of their contribution, based on the internal policy of Nepalpress governing board of directors.
• The article could be jointly published by two or more authors.
• The cost of publication is free. In other words, there is no financial burden for authors to get their article published.
• The publication of original articles in our online platform will be solely decided based on their high quality and meritocracy.