Archiving and Preservation Policy

Archiving and Preservation Policy

An open access article is only permanently available if it is preserved independently of the publisher. IJCIE therefore deposits its content with multiple distributed preservation services and maintains its own backups.

1. Distributed preservation networks

  • LOCKSS. The journal enables the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) manifest, allowing participating libraries to harvest and preserve IJCIE content in their own local caches. Permission statement: This journal utilises the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.
  • CLOCKSS. The journal enables the CLOCKSS manifest for controlled, dark archival preservation. Content is released openly if a trigger event occurs.
  • PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN). The journal deposits its published content with the PKP PN, a LOCKSS-based network operated by the Public Knowledge Project specifically for OJS journals.

2. Metadata preservation

Article metadata is registered with the DOI registration agency and is exposed for harvesting through OAI-PMH at https://ijcie.com/ijcie/oai in Dublin Core and JATS formats, so that descriptive records persist in aggregators and library systems independently of this website.

3. Local backup

The publisher maintains regular backups of the full application, the database and all article files, retained off the production server. Backups are verified periodically by test restoration.

4. Author and repository copies

Because the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence allows anyone to redistribute the published version, and because IJCIE grants authors standing permission to deposit any version without embargo, every institutional repository copy is an additional, independent preservation copy. Authors are encouraged to deposit; see the Repository and Self-Archiving Policy.

5. Persistence of identifiers

DOIs assigned to IJCIE articles are permanent. If the journal's URL structure changes, DOI records are updated so that every DOI continues to resolve to the article.

6. Continuity if the journal ceases publication

Should IJCIE cease to publish, the publisher undertakes to keep the existing content online for as long as reasonably practicable, to ensure that the archived copies held by the preservation networks are released or made discoverable, and to maintain DOI resolution. Notice would be given in the journal announcements and to the indexing services in which the journal is listed.

7. Versions

The version of record is the article as published in an issue. Where a correction or retraction is issued, both the original and the notice are preserved and linked; earlier versions are never deleted.