Archiving and Preservation Policy

The International Journal of Contemporary Multidisciplinary Studies (IJCMS) believes in the long-term protection, availability, and quality of all scholarly publications that it publishes in the journal. To guarantee that the research published by IJCMS is accessible to the world academic community indefinitely, we adhere to the current digital archiving and preservation practices.

Long-Term Digital Preservation

IJCMS uses sound digital preservation measures in order to protect published articles, metadata, and other materials against the loss of data, changes in the platform, or obsolescence. This includes:

  • Backups of all published articles and journal material are secure and redundant.
  • Archiving in reputable digital preservation systems or repositories that are accepted by the academic publishing community (like LOCKSS/ CLOCKSS or distributed systems like these).

Persistent Identifiers and Metadata

Every published paper is allocated a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which guarantees long-term reference and dependable long-term access despite any alterations in journal websites or system designs. Detailed metadata (authors, titles, abstracts, keywords, license information, and so on) is preserved to be discovered by the indexing services and digital archives.

Self-Archiving by Authors

The authors are urged to keep their work and distribute it as much as possible. Authors may submit their articles (such as preprints, accepted manuscripts and final published articles) to:

  • Departmental or institutional archives.
  • Subject repositories or discipline repositories.
  • Personal academic webpages

In the case of self-archiving, it is strongly recommended that the authors of the original publication be recognized in the self-archive and the entire citation and DOI are provided.

Ongoing Accessibility Assurance

Should IJCMS be discontinued and/or change its platform, all journal materials will remain available on digital preservation networks and external repositories. This also guarantees the academic history always exists and can be accessed in future studies and research