Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy

The International Journal of Business, Arts and Scientific Study (IJBASS) is committed to ensuring that the scholarship it publishes remains permanently available, including in the event that the journal ceases to publish or its website ceases to operate. Long-term preservation is a condition of trustworthy scholarly publishing and a requirement of the indexing services with which the journal works.

1. Distributed Preservation

IJBASS participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), a dark archive operated by the Public Knowledge Project using the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) infrastructure. Complete copies of the journal's published content, together with its metadata, are deposited automatically with the network and are replicated across geographically distributed servers held by participating institutions.

Content held in the PKP PN is not publicly accessible while the journal remains available. It is released and made openly accessible if the journal ceases publication or becomes unavailable for a sustained period, a condition known as a trigger event. Preservation in a distributed dark archive of this kind means that no single point of failure — including the loss of the journal's own server or domain — can remove the published record.

2. Persistent Identifiers and Metadata Deposit

Every article published by IJBASS is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and its metadata is deposited with Crossref. The DOI resolves to the article's current location, so that citations remain valid even if the journal's web address changes. Crossref metadata includes the full bibliographic record, author names with ORCID identifiers where supplied, funding information, licensing terms and the reference list.

Article metadata is additionally exposed through an OAI-PMH interface, which allows harvesting by aggregators, discovery services and institutional repositories.

3. Local Backup

The journal's full database and file store, including all submission records, published articles and supplementary files, are backed up daily on the publisher's server, with copies retained off-site. Local backup protects against hardware failure and operator error; it is not a substitute for distributed preservation, and is maintained in addition to the arrangements described above.

4. Author Self-Archiving

IJBASS places no restriction on self-archiving. Authors may deposit the submitted version, the accepted manuscript and the final published version in any institutional repository, subject repository, preprint server, personal website or scholarly network, immediately on publication and with no embargo period. Authors are asked to include the full citation and the DOI of the published version in any such deposit.

5. Continuity of Access

All content published by IJBASS is open access and freely available without subscription, registration or payment. Access to back issues is permanent. Articles are never removed from the journal website. Where an article is retracted, it is retained in place, clearly watermarked, and accompanied by a retraction notice, so that the published record remains complete and auditable.

6. In the Event of Journal Closure

Should IJBASS cease to publish, the publisher undertakes to maintain the journal's archive in its existing location for as long as is practicable, and to ensure that the content held in the PKP Preservation Network is released so that it remains openly accessible. Registered DOIs will be maintained and redirected to the archived location.

Contact

Enquiries about the journal's preservation arrangements may be directed to editor@ijbassbd.com.