Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy

The Journal of Engineering Research and Reviews (JERR) is committed to the long-term preservation, accessibility, authenticity, and integrity of the scholarly content it publishes. The journal recognizes that digital preservation is an essential component of responsible scholarly publishing and maintains arrangements designed to ensure that published articles remain accessible and citable over the long term.

1. Digital Preservation and Archiving

JERR maintains digital copies of its published content and employs appropriate technical measures to protect the journal's electronic records against data loss, corruption, unauthorized alteration, and service disruption.

The journal's digital preservation strategy includes:

• Secure hosting of journal content;

• Regular backup of published content and associated metadata;

• Appropriate measures to protect the integrity and availability of digital files;

• Maintenance of bibliographic and article-level metadata;

• Monitoring of the availability and integrity of published content.

Reasonable measures are taken to ensure that published articles and their associated metadata can be restored in the event of technical failure or other unforeseen circumstances.

2. Portico Preservation

JERR participates in Portico, a community-supported digital preservation service for scholarly electronic content.

Portico provides independent preservation of the journal's electronic content and is intended to provide continuing access to scholarly publications in the event that the journal's content becomes unavailable from its primary hosting platform or under other recognized preservation circumstances.

The participation of JERR in Portico provides an additional layer of independent digital preservation beyond the journal's own website and server infrastructure.

3. Long-Term Accessibility

JERR is committed to maintaining persistent access to its published scholarly record.

The journal does not impose an embargo on access to published articles. Published articles remain freely accessible through the journal website, subject to the journal's open-access and licensing policies.

Where appropriate, preserved content may become accessible through designated digital preservation infrastructure in accordance with the policies and triggering conditions of the relevant preservation service.

4. Persistent Identification and DOI

Each published article is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) through Crossref.

The DOI provides a persistent identifier for the article and facilitates:

• Stable citation;

• Persistent linking;

• Discovery and retrieval;

• Accurate metadata exchange;

• Linking between the article and relevant scholarly databases and services.

JERR makes reasonable efforts to ensure that article DOI links and associated metadata remain accurate and functional.

5. Metadata Preservation and Interoperability

JERR maintains article-level bibliographic and descriptive metadata to support discoverability, indexing, citation, and long-term preservation.

Metadata may include:

• Article title;

• Author names;

• Institutional affiliations;

• Abstract;

• Keywords;

• Publication date;

• Volume and issue information, where applicable;

• DOI;

• References;

• Licensing information;

• Funding and conflict-of-interest information, where applicable.

The journal uses established metadata practices and interoperable formats to facilitate harvesting and exchange with scholarly databases, repositories, indexing services, and preservation systems.

6. Preservation of the Scholarly Record

JERR considers the published Version of Record to be the authoritative version of a published article.

The journal aims to preserve the article together with its associated bibliographic metadata, publication history, corrections, expressions of concern, and retraction notices where applicable.

Corrections and retractions will not normally result in the silent deletion of the original scholarly record. Instead, appropriate notices will be linked to the affected article in accordance with the journal's Correction and Retraction Policy.

7. Open Access and Licensing

JERR is a fully open-access journal. Published articles are made freely available without subscription or access barriers.

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise stated.

The CC BY 4.0 license facilitates the lawful sharing and reuse of published research while requiring appropriate attribution to the authors and the original publication.

The journal's open-access and licensing arrangements support broad dissemination while preserving the identity and provenance of the published scholarly record.

8. Author Self-Archiving

Authors may deposit and share eligible versions of their manuscripts in institutional repositories, subject repositories, preprint servers, personal websites, and other legitimate scholarly platforms in accordance with JERR's Self-Archiving Policy.

Because JERR publishes under CC BY 4.0, authors may also share the final published Version of Record, provided that appropriate attribution, citation, and licensing information are retained.

9. Persistent Linking and Scholarly Infrastructure

JERR supports persistent linking between its published articles and relevant scholarly infrastructure, including:

• Crossref and DOI services;

• ORCID identifiers where provided by authors;

• Institutional and subject repositories;

• Scholarly databases and indexing services;

• Digital preservation services;

• Other appropriate scholarly communication systems.

These connections improve discoverability and help maintain reliable links between articles, authors, metadata, and other scholarly resources.

10. ORCID

JERR encourages authors to provide an ORCID iD during manuscript submission and publication.

ORCID identifiers help distinguish researchers with similar names and facilitate accurate attribution of scholarly contributions across publishing and research systems.

11. Preservation of Article Files and Metadata

JERR makes reasonable efforts to preserve the digital files necessary to maintain access to published articles, including article documents and associated metadata.

The journal also seeks to maintain stable article URLs and DOI links and to minimize changes that could compromise the discoverability or citability of published content.

12. Continuity and Contingency

JERR recognizes the possibility of disruption to its primary website, hosting environment, or publishing infrastructure.

Participation in Portico provides an independent preservation mechanism intended to support the continued availability of journal content under applicable preservation and access conditions.

The journal also maintains internal backups and other reasonable measures to support restoration of its publishing platform and digital content.

13. Review of Preservation Practices

JERR periodically reviews its digital preservation and archiving arrangements to ensure that they remain appropriate as technology, publishing standards, preservation practices, and scholarly infrastructure evolve.

The journal may update its preservation arrangements when necessary to strengthen the long-term accessibility and integrity of its published content.

14. Commitment to Long-Term Preservation

Through its own digital preservation measures and participation in Portico, together with persistent DOI identification, open licensing, metadata preservation, and responsible self-archiving practices, JERR is committed to ensuring that its published research remains discoverable, accessible, authentic, and citable for current and future researchers.