{"id":149,"date":"2015-01-28T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doajournals.wordpress.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2015-01-28T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T13:30:15","slug":"applications-a-note-about-archiving-and-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/2015\/01\/28\/applications-a-note-about-archiving-and-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications: a note about Archiving and Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the questions in our Application Form asks applicants to state: ‘Long-term preservation service(s) where the journal is currently archived’.<\/p>\n

It is a sad truth that some online only, open access journals have disappeared offline without any trace, taking published articles with them. When those articles have no permanent identifiers, nor have they been archived with an archival organisation, then they are potentially lost forever.<\/p>\n

Long-term deep archiving and digital preservation<\/h4>\n

Archiving and preservation plays an important role for all journals, particularly if those archives are ‘dark’ archives that have an intention of preserving materials for a very long time. They may have the ability to start serving content when the normal content source stops working. They may apply formal methods of preserving content to ensure minimal or no digital deterioration.<\/p>\n

The archiving schemes that we list in the question are all recognised archiving agencies and are listed as such at The Keepers Registry (KR)<\/a>. LOCKSS (or Global LOCKSS Network)<\/a> is essentially like a digital bookshelf where libraries have perpetual access to content to which they are entitled. CLOCKSS is a not-for-profit, dark archive, that preserves digital scholarly materials for the very long term, through a global and geopolitically distributed network of archive nodes. Portico<\/a> is a company offering comprehensive archiving and preservation techniques.<\/p>\n

We also recognise PubMed Central as a valid archiving option. It has a remit to preserve copies of research content that has been funded by public money. Unlike the previous 3 options, they convert the content they receive into their own format, archive copies and distribute copies to their own local repositories.<\/p>\n

Another option is ‘a national library’ and we added this option because many (although not all) national libraries are mandated to receive, via legal deposit,<\/a>\u00a0and preserve a copy of anything published in their countries. Although it doesn’t cover all countries, Wikipedia has a good list of such libraries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is not a deep archive<\/h4>\n

So let me quickly cover also what doesn’t count as a valid archiving option:<\/p>\n