Archiving and Long-Term Digital Preservation Policy

The Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. Biology is committed to preserving, archiving, and maintaining the long-term accessibility of its published content in open access.

1. Purpose of the Policy

The purpose of this policy is to ensure the long-term preservation of the journal’s published materials, their stable accessibility for readers, authors, libraries, and indexing systems, and to reduce the risk of content loss resulting from technical failure, platform migration, or website discontinuation.

2. Content Covered by Archiving

The following materials are subject to archiving and preservation:

  • full-text articles;
  • publication metadata;
  • supplementary files and appendices published with articles;
  • issue information, tables of contents, author information, and bibliographic records;
  • persistent identifiers and related publication data.

3. Primary Location of Storage and Open Access

The official source of the published content is the journal’s website hosted on the publisher’s / university’s platform. All published materials are made available in immediate open access on the official journal website without embargo.

The journal maintains an archive of published issues and seeks to ensure continuous online availability of its content for readers.

4. Technical Means of Preservation

To support the integrity and accessibility of the published content, the journal relies on the technical infrastructure of its publishing platform, including:

  • storage of publication files and metadata within the journal system;
  • backup of materials and operational data by means of the platform and/or site administrator;
  • maintenance of the issue archive on the official journal website;
  • use of persistent identifiers to support stable linking to published materials.

5. Repositories and Self-Archiving

In addition to storage on the official journal website, authors may deposit permitted versions of their articles in open institutional, national, subject-based, and other non-commercial repositories in accordance with the journal’s Self-Archiving / AAM Policy.

Author self-archiving complements but does not replace the journal’s own archiving policy as the official source of the published version of record.

6. Research Data

This archiving policy applies to journal content published on the journal website, including articles and related files. The deposit and preservation of research data are regulated separately by the journal’s Data Deposition Policy.

7. Accessibility Assurance

The journal seeks to ensure the long-term accessibility of its published content by:

  • maintaining an archive of issues on the official website;
  • preserving published files and metadata within the journal’s digital environment;
  • applying technical measures aimed at reducing the risk of content loss;
  • maintaining stable bibliographic records and links to published materials.

In the event of technical changes, platform migration, or website updates, the editorial office seeks to preserve the archive of content, metadata, and persistent links to published materials.

8. Responsibility

The editorial office is responsible for the editorial maintenance of the journal archive. Technical operation of the platform, content hosting, and technical preservation procedures are carried out by the authorized technical administrators of the platform / publisher / institution within their respective responsibilities.