Archiving Policy

Archiving Policy

 

The Journal of Advanced Computer Science (JACS) is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, and availability of all published content. The journal maintains reliable archiving practices to protect the scholarly record and guarantee permanent access to articles for researchers worldwide.

1. Purpose of Archiving

The purpose of this policy is to:

  • preserve published articles for long-term access

  • ensure permanent availability of journal content

  • protect articles from accidental loss or technical failure

  • support indexing services and international publishing standards

2. Digital Preservation Strategy

JACS implements digital preservation strategies to ensure the durability of published content, including:

  • permanent hosting on the official journal website

  • continuous journal database maintenance

  • regular system monitoring and software updates

  • secure storage and backup of content and metadata

3. Backups

To ensure preservation and disaster recovery, JACS performs:

  • routine backups of journal content (articles, issues, metadata)

  • secure storage of backup files in multiple locations

  • system restoration procedures in case of technical failure

4. Archiving Systems and Repositories

To improve long-term preservation, JACS supports archiving through:

4.1 OJS Archiving Support

As JACS uses Open Journal Systems (OJS), the journal benefits from built-in archiving and metadata export mechanisms including:

  • OAI-PMH compatibility

  • metadata harvesting support

  • structured issue/article preservation

4.2 Institutional Repository

Where applicable, JACS encourages and supports archiving in:

  • institutional repositories

  • national academic repositories

4.3 External Preservation Services (Recommended)

The journal aims to integrate with global preservation services such as:

  • LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)

  • CLOCKSS

  • PKP PN (PKP Preservation Network) (recommended for OJS journals)

These systems provide distributed preservation to ensure content remains accessible even in case of major system failure.

5. Persistent Identifiers

To improve preservation and discoverability, JACS supports:

  • DOI registration (if applicable)

  • stable article URLs

  • permanent metadata storage

6. Version Control and Integrity

The journal maintains content integrity through:

  • maintaining the final published version of each article

  • linking corrections/retractions to original articles

  • preventing unauthorized modifications of published articles

7. Access to Archived Content

Archived content remains accessible to readers through:

  • the journal website

  • indexing services and repositories

  • institutional libraries (when applicable)

No content will be removed unless required by legal or ethical circumstances.

8. Policy Updates

This policy may be updated to comply with evolving preservation standards and indexing requirements. Changes will be announced on the journal website.