Self-Archiving & Digital Preservation Policy

Self-Archiving & Digital Preservation Policy

1. Long-Term Digital Archiving and Preservation

The Journal is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, and integrity of all published content.

To guarantee permanent availability, the Journal implements a multi-layer digital preservation strategy, which may include:

  • LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)
  • CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS)
  • PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN)
  • Institutional and national repositories

These systems ensure that all published content remains accessible:

  • in case of technical failure
  • platform disruption
  • or journal discontinuation

Such distributed archiving systems are considered best practice for scholarly publishing and ensure redundancy and perpetual access.

2. Journal Discontinuation Policy

In the event that the Journal ceases publication:

  • All articles and issues will remain permanently accessible via trusted archiving systems
  • DOI links (via Crossref) will continue to resolve to archived versions
  • The scholarly record will be preserved without alteration

This guarantees continuity and reliability of the scientific record.

3. Self-Archiving Policy (Green Open Access)

The Journal fully supports Green Open Access and encourages authors to disseminate their research widely.

Self-archiving is defined as the author’s right to deposit copies of their work in repositories to increase visibility and impact.

4. Permitted Versions for Self-Archiving

Authors are allowed to archive the following versions of their manuscript:

  • Preprint (Submitted Version)
    • before peer review
  • Postprint (Author’s Accepted Manuscript)
    • after peer review, before typesetting
  • Version of Record (VoR)
    • final published PDF version

Authors may deposit these versions in:

  • institutional repositories
  • subject-specific repositories (e.g., SSRN, Zenodo)
  • personal websites
  • non-commercial academic platforms

5. Embargo Policy

  • No embargo period applies
  • Authors may archive any version immediately upon acceptance or publication

This aligns with Diamond Open Access and Open Science principles.

6. Citation Requirement

When self-archiving, authors must:

  • include a full bibliographic citation
  • provide a DOI link to the published article
  • indicate the Journal as the original source of publication

This ensures that the Version of Record remains the authoritative source.

7. Licensing and Rights

  • Authors retain sufficient rights to archive and share their work
  • All articles are distributed under a Creative Commons license (e.g., CC BY 4.0)
  • Self-archiving is permitted in accordance with this license

8. Data and Supplementary Material Preservation

  • The Journal encourages authors to deposit:
    • datasets
    • code
    • supplementary materials

in trusted repositories such as:

  • Zenodo
  • Figshare
  • Dryad

All supplementary materials published with the article are preserved alongside it.

9. Compliance with International Standards

The Journal’s archiving and self-archiving policies are aligned with:

  • best practices for digital preservation
  • international indexing requirements (including Scopus)
  • Open Science and BOAI principles
  • ethical standards of scholarly publishing