Archiving Policy

Biosciences Research Reviews is committed to the long-term preservation, integrity, accessibility, and discoverability of its published scholarly content. The journal maintains a multi-layered digital preservation strategy designed to protect the scholarly record against data loss, technological changes, infrastructure failure, and potential interruption of the journal's publishing operations.

1. Digital Preservation and Access

Biosciences Research Reviews maintains secure digital copies of its published articles, metadata, and associated publication records.

The journal's preservation strategy includes:

Publisher's Repository:
Published articles and associated metadata are maintained on the journal's official publishing platform and digital storage systems. Articles remain accessible through the journal's website while the journal's publishing platform is operational.

Distributed Digital Preservation:
The journal uses recognized digital preservation infrastructure, including LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS), and the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), where applicable. These distributed preservation systems provide additional protection for the journal's scholarly record by maintaining preserved copies independently of the journal's primary website or server infrastructure.

Scholarly Discoverability:
Published articles may be made discoverable through recognized scholarly databases, indexing services, repositories, and academic search engines. Indexing and discoverability services are separate from the journal's digital preservation arrangements.

2. Preservation Formats

The journal seeks to preserve published content in stable, sustainable, and widely supported digital formats.

Preservation formats may include:

PDF/PDF-A for stable long-term presentation and preservation;
XML and structured metadata formats for data integrity, interoperability, indexing, and future format migration; and
Other appropriate standardized formats required for accessibility, preservation, and technological interoperability.

The journal periodically reviews its preservation formats and may migrate content to appropriate successor formats as preservation standards and technologies evolve.

3. Backups and Redundancy

The journal maintains regular backups of published articles, metadata, and essential publication records.

Appropriate technical and security measures are used to protect archival content against accidental deletion, corruption, unauthorized access, hardware failure, software failure, and other potential causes of data loss.

Where applicable, participation in LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, and PKP PN provides an additional distributed preservation layer beyond the journal's primary publishing platform.

4. Open Access and Retrieval

Biosciences Research Reviews is a fully open access journal. Published articles are made freely available to readers without subscription or paywall restrictions.

Articles can normally be accessed through the journal's official website. Preservation copies maintained through external preservation infrastructures are intended primarily to safeguard the scholarly record and may be subject to the access, trigger, and technical policies of the respective preservation service.

If the journal's primary website or publishing platform becomes unavailable, preserved content may remain recoverable through applicable preservation infrastructure in accordance with the policies and procedures of the relevant preservation service.

5. Retention Period

Biosciences Research Reviews is committed to the indefinite preservation of its published scholarly record.

The journal seeks to retain published articles and associated metadata permanently through a combination of publisher-level storage, backups, and recognized digital preservation infrastructure.

Where the journal participates in LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, or PKP PN, preserved content is maintained according to the applicable policies and technical procedures of those services.

6. Access to Archived Content

The primary objective of the journal's preservation policy is to ensure the long-term integrity and continued availability of its scholarly record.

Published articles remain freely accessible through the journal's website under normal operating conditions. In exceptional circumstances, access through the journal's primary platform may be affected by technical, legal, copyright, or other legitimate considerations.

Preservation copies held in controlled or dark archives may not be publicly accessible under normal circumstances. Where the applicable preservation service's conditions for access or content activation are met, preserved content may become available in accordance with that service's policies.

7. Archiving Agreement with Authors

Authors retain copyright in their published work in accordance with the journal's Copyright and Licensing Policy.

By submitting and publishing an article with Biosciences Research Reviews, authors grant the journal the necessary non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, and preserve the published work as part of the permanent scholarly record.

This authorization includes preservation through the journal's own systems and, where applicable, recognized third-party preservation services such as LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, and PKP PN.

The preservation of an article does not transfer copyright ownership from the author(s) to the journal or publisher.

8. Article Withdrawal, Retraction, and Correction

If an article is withdrawn, corrected, or retracted because of ethical concerns, significant errors, legal requirements, or other legitimate reasons, the journal will maintain an appropriate editorial record of the action.

A clear correction, withdrawal, or retraction notice will be associated with the article's bibliographic record and displayed on the journal's platform where appropriate.

The original scholarly record may be retained within preservation systems where necessary to maintain research integrity, transparency, and an accurate publication history. Where technically feasible, preserved versions will be associated with appropriate metadata or notices indicating the article's current status.

9. Preservation During Platform or Publisher Changes

If Biosciences Research Reviews changes its website, domain, hosting provider, publishing platform, or other technical infrastructure, reasonable measures will be taken to preserve the continuity and integrity of the existing scholarly archive.

The journal's preservation strategy is designed to reduce dependence on any single server, website, hosting provider, or technology and to facilitate the continued preservation of published content during technological or organizational transitions.

10. Future Archiving and Technological Developments

Biosciences Research Reviews will periodically review its digital preservation practices and monitor developments in:

Digital preservation standards;
Sustainable file formats;
Metadata interoperability;
Open-access infrastructure;
Long-term scholarly communication;
Digital repository technologies; and
Preservation networks and services.

The journal may update its preservation strategy when necessary to adopt recognized best practices and emerging technologies.

11. Commitment to Long-Term Preservation

Through this policy, Biosciences Research Reviews affirms its commitment to protecting the integrity, authenticity, accessibility, and continuity of its published scholarly record.

The combination of publisher-level storage, regular backups, sustainable digital formats, and recognized distributed preservation infrastructure such as LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, and PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) is intended to minimize the risk of permanent loss of scholarly content.

The journal's objective is to ensure that research published in Biosciences Research Reviews remains preserved, discoverable, accessible, and part of the scholarly record for future generations.