Archiving and long-term storage policy

The editorial board of the scientific journal adheres to the Open Access policy. All articles are posted indefinitely and free of charge immediately after the issue is published. This corresponds to the BOAI definition of open access. The journal's licensing policy is compatible with the vast majority of open access and archiving policies. The journal provides long-term digital preservation and free access to all published materials, adhering to the principles of open access and academic integrity of scientific publishing, using the following tools:

repositories:

Full-text real-time access to all journal publications is provided through the Archives section on the journal's official website. The archive contains all issues and individual journal articles without any storage period restrictions. In addition, the journal stores its metadata and full-text articles in the Digital Repository of the National University of Water Management and Environmental Management.

technical means:

All journal materials are archived in stable electronic formats, ensuring their accessibility, reproducibility and correct citation in the future: metadata and full texts of publications can be indexed in national and international information and scientometric systems. The journal backs up its issues, monitors technological aspects to prevent possible format conversions or outdated software;

The Open Journal Systems journal website platform supports the PKP system (PKP Preservation Network, PKP PN). This service, developed by the PKP (Public Knowledge Project) team, is designed for digital storage of archive content of scientific journals that use the Open Journal Systems platform for their websites;

The PKP PN network is integrated with the well-known scientific information storage service LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), which guarantees decentralized and distributed storage, continuous access and preservation of the true original version of the content. PKP Preservation Network provides long-term preservation of journals that are not part of other digital archiving services (for example, CLOCKSS or Portico);

LOCKSS is an open software tool developed at Stanford University Library that allows libraries to preserve individual web journals. The tool regularly monitors the websites of these journals for new published content and ensures that this content is archived. Each archive is constantly checked for compliance with others. If it turns out that the content is damaged or lost, other archives are used to restore it.

Accessibility guarantees:

The journal uses stable file formats (PDF) to ensure the readability of scientific content, assigns a DOI to each document, which guarantees its finding; adheres to OpenAIRE standards to ensure indexing. Journal materials in specialized databases (journal website, Digital Repository of the National University of Water Management and Environmental Management, etc.) are available free of charge.