Archiving Policy

Advances in BioScience (ISSN 2583-0058) is committed to ensuring the permanent availability, accessibility, and preservation of all published research articles. We recognize the paramount importance of preserving scientific knowledge for future generations and fostering open access to research findings. This policy outlines our comprehensive approach to archiving published content, ensuring its long-term integrity and discoverability.

Digital Archiving and Preservation

  • Journal Platform Storage: Advances in BioScience operates on Open Journal Systems (OJS), a trusted open-source platform for scholarly publishing. The published scholarly record is securely archived using best-in-class digital preservation practices, including encrypted storage, scheduled backups, and secure, industry-compliant infrastructure. This ensures enduring accessibility and protection against data loss.
  • LOCKSS and CLOCKSS Systems: As part of our comprehensive archiving strategy, Advances in BioScience actively utilizes the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS System) networks. These decentralized systems create permanent, redundant archives of all published content across a global network of participating libraries. This distributed preservation model ensures long-term accessibility, safeguards against data loss, and provides a robust disaster recovery mechanism in the event of technical failures, platform disruptions, or other unforeseen circumstances affecting our primary hosting infrastructure.
  • PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN): For journals hosted on Open Journal Systems (OJS), the PKP PN provides free preservation services, ensuring long-term access for journals not covered by other major preservation services.

Author Self-Archiving

  • Open Access Policy: Advances in Bioscience adheres to an open access publishing model. Authors retain the copyright to their work and are encouraged to self-archive the accepted manuscript (post-print) and published version (PDF) of their articles in their institutional repositories or other openly accessible online platforms.
  • Citation and Attribution: When self-archiving, authors must clearly acknowledge Advances in Bioscience as the original publisher and include a link to the published article on our website.
  • No Embargo Period: There is no embargo period on self-archiving, allowing authors to deposit their work immediately upon publication.

Benefits of Archiving

This comprehensive archiving strategy offers several key advantages:

  • Accessibility: Published research will remain accessible to researchers, educators, and the general public, regardless of any changes to our platform or the cessation of publication.
  • Preservation: Archiving ensures the long-term sustainability of scientific knowledge and safeguards against data loss.
  • Visibility and Dissemination: The use of established archiving systems such as LOCKSS and CLOCKSS, as well as open access repositories, can increase the discoverability of articles, leading to a wider readership and potentially higher citations.

If you have any inquiries regarding our archiving policy or self-archiving guidelines, please contact the Editorial Office at editor@sospublication.co.in.