Archiving and Preservation Policy

The Journal of Human Context Studies and Social-Cultural Influences (JHCSCI) also strives to make all of the research published in it available, secure, and long term preserved. In this Archiving and Preservation Policy, the journal provides an explanation of how it secures its digital material ensuring that scholarly work remains available to the readers, researchers, and institutions many years into the future.

Long-Term Accessibility

The academic research must also be included in the permanent record. In line with this principle, JHCSCI makes sure that all published articles remain accessible despite the changes in technologies. Articles are saved in stable digital formats which are extensively supported and read across time.

Persistent Identifiers

Journal Articles in JHCSCI have Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). DOIs also enable an article to have a stable and unchanging link to the article, and thus the article is readily located and cited by a reader or a researcher, no matter how the site is updated or moved.

Redundancy and Secure Storage

The published material is stored in various sites which are secure repositories so as to safeguard loss of data. The journal ensures that its content is not compromised by technical failure or disruption in a single site by having redundant backups in the system in a geographically different location.

Metadata Preservation

Besides the text of the whole articles, the journal also retains necessary metadata, including titles, names of authors, abstracts, keywords, and publication information, to enable the indexing process, discovery, and integration of research over the long term.

Open Access and Continued Availability

The open access policy of JHCSCI means that the content that has been preserved is freely accessible to the reader without the need of obtaining subscriptions or logging in. This boosts the exposure, relevance and usefulness of research to scholars, educators and the general population.

Ongoing Review

The journal periodically appraises its preservation measures to remain abreast with new standards and technological developments on digital archiving. This will be a proactive measure that ensures the reliability of access and protection of all archived content.

The Journal of Human Context Studies and Social-Cultural Influences (JHCSCI) shows its desire to be a good steward of scholarly knowledge through this Archiving and Preservation Policy in which it ensures that quality research is available, searchable, and preserved across generations.