Archival & Digital Preservation Policy
Archival & Digital Preservation Policy
A paper published here stays readable at the same address indefinitely. This page sets out how content is stored, backed up and kept reachable — and what happens to it if the journal ever ceases to operate.
Last reviewed August 2026 · Applies to all submissions to JMVRA (ISSN 2984-8911)
Research is cited for decades. A link that dies takes the citation with it, so preservation is not an operational detail — it is part of what publishing means. JMVRA commits to keeping every published article accessible at a stable address, in a stable format, for as long as the journal exists, and to a succession plan if it does not.
Persistent Identifiers
- Every article keeps its original URL. Article addresses are never restructured, recycled or repointed. A link printed in a thesis in 2019 still resolves today.
- Crossref DOIs are registered on request and resolve independently of the website’s structure. If a URL ever had to change, the DOI would still find the paper.
- Volume and issue pages are permanent too, so a reader can navigate to a paper by issue as well as by direct link.
- Withdrawn and retracted papers stay online. They are marked, never deleted — see the Retraction Policy. Deleting them would break every citation already made.
How Content Is Preserved
Redundant Hosting
Article files and the journal database are held on managed cloud infrastructure with hardware redundancy, so a single disk or machine failure loses nothing.
Scheduled Backups
Automated daily backups of both files and database, retained on a rolling schedule and stored separately from the live server.
Open, Durable Format
Articles are published as PDF — an ISO-standardised, self-contained format that will still open decades from now, with no dependency on a proprietary reader.
Third-Party Indexing
Metadata and full text are distributed to Google Scholar and other indexing services, so records exist beyond this site alone.
Print Copies
Hard copies of each issue are produced and held, giving an offline record entirely independent of any digital system.
Author Self-Archiving
Authors may deposit the published PDF in their institutional repository — see the Preprint & Self-Archiving Policy. Every such copy is another point of preservation.
If the Journal Ceases Publication
Journals do close, and a preservation policy that ignores that possibility is not a policy. Should JMVRA ever cease to publish, the following applies:
Reporting a Broken Link
If a published article does not load, or a DOI fails to resolve, tell us and it will be investigated as a priority. Email [email protected] with the paper ID or DOI and the address you tried. A dead link to published research is a fault in the record, not an inconvenience — we would rather hear about it than not.
Where the Archival & Preservation Policy Applies
The stages of a paper’s journey this policy governs are highlighted.
Applies at: Publish · After
Archival & Preservation Policy in Brief
A paper is only useful to the scholarly record if it can still be found and read years later. Every article published in JMVRA keeps a permanent web address that is never reused or restructured, and papers registered with Crossref carry a DOI that resolves independently of the website.
Content is backed up daily and copies are held outside the journal’s own servers. The policy also sets out what happens to the archive if the journal ever ceases publication, so authors know their work will remain accessible. If you find a broken link to a published article, the editorial office will fix it.
