Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy

Digital preservation can be seen as the set of processes and activities that ensure information, which now exists in digital formats, is backed up and distributed to guarantee continued access for the long term. The International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM), eISSN: 2815-9330, implements the following measures to safeguard its scholarly content:

Digital Repositories and Libraries

IJBM content is indexed and discoverable through multiple abstracting and indexing services. Each published article is assigned a DOI to ensure persistent identification and citation. While the National Library of New Zealand previously received journal issues, the journal’s primary digital preservation is ensured through distributed archiving networks.

Digital Archiving Networks

• PKP Preservation Network (PLN): Selected journal content is harvested and preserved in the PKP PLN to maintain continued access in case of technical or operational disruptions.
• LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe): IJBM content is harvested and preserved via the LOCKSS network. Gateway information is available here.
• CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS): The CLOCKSS system has permission to ingest, preserve, and serve IJBM content, ensuring long-term distributed preservation here.

Self-Archiving
Authors are permitted to deposit the published version of their articles in institutional or subject-based repositories, on personal or departmental websites, or on academic networking platforms (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu), in compliance with the Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0 license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

If the Journal Ceases Publication

In the unlikely event that IJBM stops publishing, all previously published content will remain accessible via the PKP Preservation Network, LOCKSS, and CLOCKSS archives, ensuring long-term availability and safeguarding the scholarly record.