Archiving Policy

 
Archiving Policy

The Journal of Decision Support Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (JODESMA) is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, and integrity of its published scholarly content. The journal maintains an archiving policy to protect the scholarly record and ensure that published articles remain accessible even if the journal's website or publishing platform becomes temporarily unavailable or undergoes significant technical changes.

1. Purpose of Archiving

The primary purpose of the Journal of Decision Support Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (JODESMA) archiving policy is to preserve the journal's published content and associated bibliographic information for long-term scholarly access.

The journal seeks to ensure the continued preservation of:

  • Published articles.
  • Article metadata.
  • Abstracts and keywords.
  • Authorship information.
  • Publication dates.
  • Volume and issue information.
  • DOI and other persistent identifiers.
  • Supplementary files where applicable.
  • Other essential components of the published scholarly record.
2. Digital Preservation

Journal of Decision Support Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (JODESMA) maintains digital copies of its published content as part of its journal publishing and preservation practices.

The journal takes reasonable measures to protect archived content against accidental loss, corruption, unauthorized modification, and technical failure.

Archived files and metadata should remain associated with the corresponding publication record so that the provenance and integrity of the published material can be maintained.

3. Repository and Third-Party Archiving

Journal of Decision Support Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (JODESMA) supports the preservation of its published content through appropriate institutional, subject-based, national, and other recognized scholarly repositories.

Authors may deposit published articles in repositories in accordance with the journal's Self-Archiving Policy, Repository Policy, copyright provisions, and applicable Creative Commons license.

Where appropriate preservation services or recognized digital archiving systems are available, JODESMA may deposit or preserve journal content through such services.

4. Long-Term Accessibility

Journal of Decision Support Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (JODESMA) aims to maintain continued access to its published content regardless of changes to the journal's website, publishing platform, or technical infrastructure.

If the journal migrates to a new publishing platform, domain, or content management system, reasonable measures will be taken to preserve the existing publication records, metadata, article files, DOI information, and links to published content.

The journal will make reasonable efforts to maintain persistent access to previously published articles and to minimize disruption to the scholarly record during technical or organizational changes.

5. Version and Record Integrity

The published version of an article constitutes the journal's official version of record.

Archived copies should preserve the article's bibliographic information, DOI, publication details, and applicable licensing information.

Where an article requires a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other post-publication action, the journal will maintain the original publication record while clearly identifying the relevant post-publication notice in accordance with its publication ethics procedures.

The journal will not silently replace or alter the published version in a manner that obscures the publication history.

6. Backup and Security

Journal of Decision Support Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (JODESMA) applies reasonable technical and administrative measures to protect its digital publication records.

These measures may include:

  • Maintaining multiple digital copies where feasible.
  • Regular backup of journal content and metadata.
  • Protection against unauthorized access.
  • Monitoring of storage and technical infrastructure.
  • Preservation of publication metadata.
  • Recovery procedures in the event of technical failure or data loss.

The specific technical implementation of backups and preservation may be adjusted as the journal's publishing infrastructure develops.

7. Access to Archived Content

Archived Journal of Decision Support Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (JODESMA) content should remain accessible according to the copyright and licensing terms applicable to each publication.

For articles published under an open access Creative Commons license, continued access and reuse are governed by the applicable license.

Archiving does not alter the copyright ownership or licensing conditions associated with an article.

8. Responsibility for Preservation

The Editorial Office is responsible for overseeing the journal's archiving practices and for taking reasonable measures to maintain the continuity and integrity of the journal's digital scholarly record.

The journal may collaborate with institutional repositories, digital preservation services, hosting providers, indexing services, or other appropriate organizations to support long-term preservation.

Journal of Decision Support Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (JODESMA) periodically reviews its archiving arrangements and may update this policy to reflect changes in digital preservation standards, publishing infrastructure, and recognized scholarly publishing practices.