Digital Preservation and Archiving Policy

The JIRMS preserves its published content to ensure permanent access, reliable citation, and the long-term integrity of the scholarly record. The Journal applies publisher-managed archiving and third-party independent digital preservation services to safeguard all published articles and their associated metadata, regardless of technological changes or unforeseen service interruptions.

Scope of Preservation

This journal preserves the published scholarly record together with the digital content necessary to ensure its long-term accessibility and integrity. This includes:

  • Full-text articles;
  • PDF publication files;
  • Article metadata;
  • Persistent identifiers (DOIs);
  • Supplementary files, where applicable; and
  • Other digital objects associated with the published scholarly record.

Digital Preservation

  1. Publisher-Managed Archiving
  • JIRMS provides immediate and permanent open access to all published articles through its official website: https://agasr.org/index.php/jirms/index
  • The Publisher performs regular backups of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, including published articles, bibliographic metadata, editorial records, and supporting publication files. These backups protect the Journal's content against accidental loss, system failure, and other unforeseen events while supporting business continuity and disaster recovery.
  1. Third-Party Digital Preservation

JIRMS preserves its published content through multiple independent digital preservation services to ensure the long-term availability and integrity of the scholarly record.

  • Currently, JIRMS preserves its published content through the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) and the Internet Archive to ensure the long-term availability and integrity of the scholarly record. See: sfu.ca/pkp-pn.
  • JIRMS periodically reviews its digital preservation arrangements and may adopt additional preservation services, including Portico, where appropriate, to support the long-term preservation of the scholarly record.

Metadata, Indexing & Discoverability Policy

  1. Persistent Access
  • Each published article is assigned a persistent Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to facilitate reliable citation, long-term discoverability, and continued access. JIRMS maintains complete bibliographic metadata to support interoperability with indexing, abstracting, and scholarly discovery services.
  1. Metadata Preservation and Harvesting
  • JIRMS preserves complete bibliographic metadata for all published articles and supports metadata harvesting through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). This enables the discovery, indexing, and interoperability of published content across scholarly databases, library services, search engines, and research information systems. See: https://validator.oaipmh.com/
  • Authors are encouraged to maintain accurate publication records by updating their ORCID profiles with their published JIRMS articles.

Verification of Digital Preservation

JIRMS supports transparency in digital preservation. Where preservation information is available, the Journal's preservation status may be independently verified through the Keepers Registry (https://keepers.issn.org/keepers-registry), which aggregates preservation records from participating archiving agencies.

 

Policy Compliance and Review

This policy supports internationally recognized principles for the long-term preservation of scholarly publications. It aligns with the recommendations and best practices promoted by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), and other recognized scholarly communication initiatives.