ARCHIVING & DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICY

ARCHIVING & DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICY

Archiving & Digital Preservation Policy

The Link Medical Journal of Health and Community Research (LMJHCR) ensures permanent, secure, and reliable preservation of all published content.

Our digital preservation strategy is designed to ensure that all articles remain accessible long-term, including in cases of technical failure, platform migration, or journal closure.

Long-term Digital Preservation Systems

LMJHCR uses multiple independent digital preservation mechanisms to support long-term availability.

1.1 PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN)

The journal participates in the PKP Preservation Network, which provides automated preservation for OJS journals.

PKP PN supports:

  • Long-term archiving
  • Redundancy across distributed servers
  • Protection against data loss

1.2 Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)

The journal website and published articles may be periodically captured and archived via the Internet Archive for additional public preservation and redundancy.

Self-Archiving & Repository Preservation

Authors may deposit:

  • Preprints
  • Accepted manuscripts
  • Published PDFs

in any:

  • Institutional repository
  • Subject repository (where eligible)
  • National digital library
  • Personal or professional website

Local Server Backups

The journal maintains:

  • Daily incremental backups
  • Weekly full backups
  • Off-site storage on secure servers
  • Disaster recovery protocols

Backups are stored securely to prevent content loss due to technical failure or security incidents.

Metadata Preservation

All articles are preserved with structured metadata to support indexing, discovery, and interoperability, including:

  • DOIs (where applicable)
  • ORCID metadata (where provided)
  • Crossref XML deposits (where applicable)
  • Dublin Core metadata
  • OAI-PMH harvesting enabled

Article Permanence

Once published:

  • Articles remain permanently available as part of the scholarly record.
  • Content is not removed or altered, except through formal corrections, retractions, or updates.
  • Retractions remain publicly accessible with clear labeling and linked notices.

Distributed Global Archiving

To improve long-term discoverability and preservation pathways, metadata and article records may be made available through reputable indexing, harvesting, and scholarly discovery systems, including DOI registries and scholarly search platforms, where applicable and eligible.