Digital Preservation and Archiving
To ensure the long-term availability, accessibility, and permanent preservation of all scholarly content published, this journal implements a comprehensive digital preservation strategy. This guarantees that the digital archive remains secure, uncorrupted, and accessible to the global scientific community in the event of any unforeseen infrastructure failure or if the journal ceases publication.
1. PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN)
The journal utilizes the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) to digitally preserve all published volumes and articles. PKP PN relies on the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) decentralized archiving system, which automatically creates distributed copies of the journal's content across participating academic libraries worldwide. This ensures that the digital records can be fully recovered and maintained intact over time.
2. Additional Archiving Systems
In addition to the PKP PN, the journal actively utilizes the following mechanisms to safeguard its metadata and full-text files:
- LOCKSS and CLOCKSS: The journal enables these protocols within the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform to allow participating libraries to create permanent archives for purposes of preservation and restoration.
- Institutional and Local Backups: The server infrastructure hosting the journal performs automated, secure weekly and monthly backups of the complete OJS database, system directories, and PDF files onto independent external servers.
- National Repository: Published issues are systematically deposited and archived in accordance with legal deposit laws and national digital heritage conservation guidelines.
3. Persistent Identifiers and Metadata
All published articles are assigned permanent identifiers and metadata protocols (such as OAI-PMH) to ensure they are discoverable, cross-referenced, and permanently harvestable by international indexes, ensuring structural visibility across the web regardless of server location changes.
