Digital Archiving Policy

The journal adopts the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) as a long-term digital preservation and archiving solution integrated with the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform through which the journal is managed online, in order to ensure the long-term preservation and continued availability of its content. PKP PN is a long-term digital preservation service that operates within a distributed preservation infrastructure (such as LOCKSS), supporting continuity of access to content when needed. The journal also provides structured access to its descriptive metadata via the OAI-PMH protocol, ensuring interoperability with indexing and harvesting standards.

In addition, the journal assigns persistent Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to all published articles through an agreement with Crossref, ensuring stable citation, traceability, and reliable referencing.

The journal also maintains a repository policy that allows authors to deposit versions of their work in an institutional repository or any other trusted digital repository of their choice, in accordance with the journal’s publishing rules and licensing terms. This generally includes the preprint and/or the accepted manuscript (post-peer review) and/or the published version (Version of Record), depending on what is permitted under the journal’s publishing model. When depositing, authors must: provide full citation details of the publication in the journal, include a link to the article on the journal website and/or the DOI where available, and comply with the terms of the journal’s applicable license.