Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy

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Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy

 

How the published record is kept available, permanently and independently of this website.

Radiology Research Journal (RRJ) is committed to the permanent availability of its published content. Preservation does not rely on the journal's own servers alone: content is deposited with independent preservation networks so that articles remain accessible even if the journal, its publisher, or its website should cease to exist.

Preservation Arrangements
PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN)
The journal participates in the PKP Preservation Network, a free, dark-archive service operated by the Public Knowledge Project for journals using Open Journal Systems. Content is deposited automatically and held across multiple geographically distributed nodes, to be released publicly if the journal becomes unavailable.
LOCKSS and CLOCKSS
The journal's LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) manifest is published and open to participating libraries, allowing them to hold and, where necessary, restore authoritative copies. CLOCKSS provides an equivalent controlled dark archive with community-governed trigger events.
Garuda and RJI (Indonesia)
Article metadata and full text are harvested by Garuda (Garba Rujukan Digital), the Indonesian national scientific repository, and the journal is registered with Relawan Jurnal Indonesia (RJI), providing a national layer of preservation and discoverability alongside the international networks.
Institutional and Local Backup
The publisher maintains scheduled backups of the full OJS installation, including databases, article files, and submission records, stored in at least two separate physical locations. Backup integrity is verified [QUARTERLY].
What Is Preserved
The final published version of record of every article, in PDF and [HTML/XML].
Supplementary files submitted for publication alongside the article.
Complete article metadata, including DOI, ORCID identifiers, licence, and funding information.
All correction, retraction, and expression of concern notices, permanently linked to the article they concern.
Issue-level structure, so that the composition of each volume and issue remains reconstructable.
Persistence of the Published Record
DOIs are permanent. Once assigned, a DOI is never reused or withdrawn, and continues to resolve even after retraction.
Retracted articles remain online. They are marked clearly as retracted rather than deleted, preserving the integrity of the citation record.
Removal is exceptional. An article is withdrawn from public view only under legal compulsion or where it presents a serious risk, and a notice always remains in its place.
Authors may self-archive. Deposit in institutional and subject repositories provides a further layer of redundancy; see the Repository Policy.
If the Journal Ceases Publication

Should Radiology Research Journal cease to publish, the archived content held in the PKP Preservation Network, LOCKSS/CLOCKSS, and Garuda will be released or made available by those services under their own trigger procedures. The publisher additionally undertakes to transfer the complete archive to a recognised repository or successor publisher and to announce the arrangement publicly, so that no article and no DOI is lost.

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