Fikr-O-Nazar

Office of the Fikr-o-Nazar Aligarh Muslim University

Fikr-o-Nazar is a major literary and research journal of the Aligarh Muslim University, started in 1960 and included by the UGC CARE LIST. This journal has contents on more than a dozen special issues on various important topics and epoch makers of the education, literature and nation’s socio-cultural development. International acclaimed and country’s most renowned scholars and writers contribute their research papers to the Fikr-o-Nazar, regularly.

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)

Ø  To collect the keys by the deputed staff from the Editor`s residence to open the Academy.

Ø  To clean the Chambers of Editors and Office of the Fikr-o-Nazar. Switch-on minimal lights if required.

Ø  The office of the Fikr-o-Nazar is devoted to provide a favourable atmosphere and all required support to the academician, research scholars, students and non-teaching staff to ensure the smooth functioning of the Idara-e-Fikr-o-Nazar.

Ø The office is worked under the direction of the Editor. He monitors all accounts, purchase, correspondence, and other activities of the Fikr-o-Nazar, and maintenance of the records of the office and staff.

Ø  The office ensures maintenance, cleanliness of the premises, including chambers. It conducts physical verification of all office assets and maintains the stock register, including the computers, printers, photocopier machine etc.

Ø  The office is also responsible for the updating of the issues of Journal on the website under the guidance of the Editor as well as to maintain records and deliver all internal mails of official correspondence. Furthermore to maintain receipt and dispatch register entries. Finalize and dispatch letter assign by the Editor a day before in the second half.

Ø  Sort the letter received in the second half of the previous working day.

Ø  Routine work that includes preparing the replies of arrived letters and DFAs presented to the Editor in the second half of the day.

Procedure to prepare an Issue of Journal and its distribution

Ø  We will request the writers/contributors/Scholars to focus on high-quality research papers as per the status of journal and always keep in touch with them to achieve the target.

Ø  After received the original research works on relevant topics, we use to assemble an Editorial Screening and, will get initiated for a well-formatted manuscript then the articles send for peer-reviewing process to evaluate the selected papers to accommodate in the forthcoming issue, if experts will approved them. Otherwise we use to contact the writers for further modification, edition or omission, as suggested by the experts. 

Ø  A copy of research papers for proofreading, corrections and so on, we provide a soft copy to authors and after the fulfilment of the requirement, board will allow for print.

Ø  The final step is to distribute and send the copy of journal to all writers/contributors life members/periodical members, members of editorial board, complimentary members and other esteemed institutions including reputed libraries.

Ø  Two set of hard bond we kept reserved for office record and remaining are stored safely, in case of stock. The manuscripts or soft copies of the published materials have kept in archives and is also uploaded on the page of journal of university website.

Ø    The Assistant Editor has a responsibility to remind the member for renewal of the subscription, if it is going to laps in near future.

Ø    Assistant Editor has to be also responsible to make correspondences for the research papers for the journal and on the relevant approved topics in case of special issues.