Archiving and Preservation Policy

This policy defines the journal’s approach to the storage, archiving, and long-term preservation of published materials, as well as to ensuring their availability to readers, authors, indexing systems, and the scholarly community.

The journal seeks to preserve published articles, related metadata, and other information necessary for the identification, discovery, citation, and use of published materials.

1. General Principles

The journal recognizes the importance of the long-term preservation of scholarly publications and the maintenance of stable access to published materials.

Archiving and preservation of materials are aimed at:

  • ensuring the long-term availability of published articles;
  • preserving the scholarly record of published materials;
  • supporting the correct citation of articles;
  • ensuring the availability of metadata;
  • protecting published materials from loss, damage, or unauthorized alteration;
  • supporting the discoverability of materials in search, registration, abstracting, indexing, and archiving systems.

The journal takes reasonable measures to preserve published materials and ensure their availability in the long term.

2. Materials Subject to Storage and Preservation

The journal seeks to preserve the following materials:

  • published articles;
  • PDF versions of published articles;
  • article pages on the journal website;
  • information about journal issues;
  • bibliographic data and article metadata;
  • DOI and related information;
  • abstracts, keywords, and author information;
  • references, if they are included in metadata or displayed on the article page;
  • information about corrections, expressions of concern, and article retractions, if such materials are published;
  • supplementary materials, if they were published together with the article.

The preservation of separate working, editorial, or internal materials is carried out in accordance with the journal’s internal procedures and applicable confidentiality requirements.

3. Storage of Materials on the Journal Website

Published articles are hosted on the journal website and are available through the relevant article pages and the archive of issues.

The journal seeks to maintain the functionality of the website, the availability of published materials, and the correctness of links to articles, issues, PDF files, and other related resources.

If the structure of the website changes, the editorial office seeks to preserve access to published materials and, as far as possible, prevent the loss of links to article pages.

4. DOI and Metadata

The journal uses digital object identifiers, DOI, for published articles, where applicable to the relevant publication.

Metadata of published articles may be submitted to registration, search, abstracting, indexing, and archiving systems, including systems related to DOI registration.

The submission of metadata is intended to ensure stable identification of articles, improve their discoverability, support correct citation, and maintain the long-term availability of information about publications.

Metadata may include the article title, author information, affiliations, abstract, keywords, references, DOI, issue information, publication date, a link to the article page, and other information necessary for the correct description of the published work.

If, for technical, organizational, or other reasons, the electronic address of the published article page changes, the journal seeks to update the corresponding link in the DOI metadata in a timely manner using Crossref tools. This is intended to maintain the functionality of DOI links and the long-term availability of published materials.

5. Backup Storage

The journal takes measures for the backup storage of published materials and related data.

Backup storage may include preserving copies of published articles, PDF files, metadata, issues, and other materials necessary to restore access to published materials in the event of technical failures, data loss, or other unforeseen circumstances.

The editorial office and the publisher take reasonable measures to protect archived copies from loss, damage, or unauthorized alteration.

6. Long-Term Availability of Published Materials

The journal seeks to ensure the long-term availability of published articles on the journal website and through related electronic resources.

Published materials should remain available for reading, downloading, and citation in accordance with the journal’s Open Access Policy and license terms.

In the event of technical changes, website updates, migration of materials to a new platform, or changes to the archive structure, the journal seeks to preserve access to published articles and related metadata.

7. Archive of Journal Issues

The journal maintains an electronic archive of published issues.

The archive of issues should provide access to published materials by year, volume, issue, or other structural elements used by the journal.

For each published material, as far as possible, the main bibliographic information, link to the article page, PDF file, and DOI, if assigned, should be preserved.

8. Indexing, Abstracting, and Archiving Systems

The journal may submit information about published materials to indexing, abstracting, search, and archiving systems.

Such submission supports the preservation of information about publications and increases their visibility, discoverability, and availability to the scholarly community.

If published materials or metadata are available through external systems, the journal seeks to maintain the correctness of the submitted information and, where necessary, update publication records.

9. Self-Archiving by Authors

Authors have the right to place the published version of the article on personal websites, research profile pages, institutional and subject repositories, and other lawful platforms in accordance with the journal’s license terms.

Self-archiving by authors contributes to the additional preservation and dissemination of published materials.

When posting the article, authors must indicate the original publication in the journal, the DOI or link to the article page, where available, and the license terms.

10. Preservation of the Status of Published Materials

If a published article has been corrected, accompanied by an expression of concern, or retracted, the journal seeks to maintain a transparent record of the status of that article.

Information about a correction, expression of concern, or article retraction must be linked to the relevant article page and, where applicable, reflected in the metadata.

Retraction of an article does not automatically mean removal of the published material from the journal archive. A retracted article may remain available, but its status must be clearly indicated to readers and indexing systems.

11. Modification or Removal of Published Materials

The journal does not remove published materials without sufficient grounds.

Removal of or restriction of access to a published article may be considered only in exceptional cases, for example if keeping the material openly available violates the law, third-party rights, confidentiality requirements, the safety of research participants, or other substantial ethical or legal requirements.

If access to a published material is restricted, the journal seeks, as far as possible, to preserve the bibliographic record of the publication and an explanation of the reason for restricting access.

12. Actions in the Event of Technical Failures

In the event of technical failures, temporary unavailability of the website, or loss of access to individual materials, the editorial office and the publisher take reasonable measures to restore access to published articles and related metadata.

If restoration requires time, the editorial office may use backup copies, internal archives, or other available sources to restore published materials.

13. Actions in the Event of Journal Discontinuation or Platform Change

If the journal ceases operation, changes publisher, domain, website, or hosting platform, the editorial office and the publisher seek to take reasonable measures to preserve published materials and ensure continued access to them.

Such measures may include transferring the archive to a new platform, depositing materials in an electronic archive, institutional repository, archiving system, or another reliable resource capable of ensuring further storage and availability of published materials.

In such cases, the journal seeks to preserve the main bibliographic information, DOI, metadata, PDF files, and information about the status of published articles.

14. Relationship with Other Journal Policies

This policy is applied together with other journal policies, including:

  • Open Access Policy;
  • Copyright & Licensing Policy;
  • Publication Ethics;
  • Corrections, Expressions of Concern, and Retractions Policy;
  • Data Availability and Research Transparency Policy;
  • Complaints and Appeals Policy.

If a matter is related to several policies at the same time, the editorial office considers it comprehensively, taking into account all applicable requirements.

15. Responsibility of the Editorial Office and Publisher

The editorial office and the publisher take reasonable measures for the storage, archiving, and long-term preservation of the journal’s published materials.

Responsibility for maintaining the availability of the website, archive of issues, article pages, PDF files, and related metadata is carried out within the technical, organizational, and legal capabilities of the journal.

The editorial office reserves the right to update this policy to bring it into line with developments in international scholarly publishing practice and requirements for the archiving and long-term preservation of scholarly publications.