Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy

SAER Journal considers the long-term accessibility, integrity, and continuity of published scholarly content to be essential components of responsible academic publishing. The journal aims to maintain appropriate digital archiving and backup practices to protect published articles and associated publication records against technical failure, data loss, or platform changes.

1. General Principle

The primary objective of SAER Journal's digital preservation approach is to ensure that published scholarly content remains accessible, verifiable, and bibliographically traceable for as long as reasonably possible.

Digital preservation practices are guided by the principles of content integrity, accessibility, metadata continuity, secure backup, and, where necessary, transferability between publishing platforms.

2. Preservation of Published Content

Published articles, issue content, bibliographic records, and, where appropriate, associated supplementary files are stored on the journal's publishing platform. The journal aims, within the capabilities of its technical infrastructure, to maintain regular backups and reduce the risk of data loss.

Preservation efforts are intended to include not only article files but also essential metadata such as title, author information, abstract, keywords, DOI or other persistent identifiers, publication date, and issue information.

3. Backup Practices

Regular backup procedures are implemented to the extent supported by the journal's technical infrastructure. Backup frequency, scope, and storage arrangements may vary depending on the server environment, hosting provider, and technical features of the publishing platform.

SAER Journal may rely on backup and security mechanisms provided by its technical service providers in order to reduce the risk of data loss.

4. File and Content Integrity

The integrity and continuity of published article files are treated as important elements of the scholarly record. Significant post-publication changes are handled in accordance with the journal's correction and post-publication policies.

The journal seeks to avoid silent alteration of published files in a manner that would undermine transparency of the scholarly record.

5. Persistent Identifiers and Bibliographic Continuity

Where DOI or another persistent identifier is assigned to an article, the journal seeks to maintain accurate links between the identifier and the article's bibliographic metadata.

Where URLs or platform structures change, reasonable efforts may be made to redirect previous links or preserve the continuity and accuracy of bibliographic records.

6. Indexing and External Systems

Content published in SAER Journal may also be discoverable and bibliographically recorded through indexing services, scholarly databases, search engines, and other academic information systems in which the journal is included.

Records maintained by such external systems may complement the journal's own archiving activities; however, the journal does not guarantee the continued operation of services that remain outside its direct control.

7. Institutional and Personal Archiving

Subject to the journal's open access and licensing policy, authors may archive and share their published work in institutional repositories, personal academic webpages, and appropriate scholarly sharing platforms.

Authors are encouraged to preserve the bibliographic details of the published version and, where available, the DOI link when self-archiving or redistributing their work.

8. Long-Term Digital Preservation Services

SAER Journal may evaluate reliable preservation solutions that strengthen long-term digital preservation according to its technical and institutional capacity and may integrate with appropriate preservation services in the future.

Use of third-party preservation services such as LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico, or comparable systems will be stated in the journal's policies only after an actual integration or formal preservation arrangement has been established.

9. Platform Migration or Service Disruption

In the event of a publishing platform change, hosting-provider change, or temporary service interruption, the journal aims to preserve previously published content and transfer it to the new environment with as little disruption as reasonably possible.

Appropriate backup, export, and migration procedures may be used to minimize the risk of content or metadata loss during technical transitions.

10. Discontinuation of the Journal

If SAER Journal ceases publication in the future, reasonable efforts will be made to preserve previously published scholarly content through an appropriate archiving or access solution that supports continuity of the scholarly record.

Where appropriate, institutional repositories, publishing infrastructure providers, or other reliable scholarly preservation services may be considered for this purpose.

11. Technical Limitations

Digital archiving and preservation practices may be limited by the software, hosting infrastructure, technical service providers, and institutional resources available to the journal. SAER Journal cannot guarantee uninterrupted access in extraordinary technical circumstances beyond its reasonable control.

Nevertheless, the journal will seek to take reasonable technical and editorial measures to preserve scholarly content and restore access where disruption occurs.

12. Policy Updates

This policy may be updated as SAER Journal's digital archiving infrastructure, backup arrangements, or long-term preservation services develop.

The journal will identify only those digital preservation systems that it actually uses or with which it has established a formal integration.