Digital Archiving Policy

In order to ensure the preservation, usability and accessibility of content for long-term availability, there is a need for management policies and actions, called Digital preservation policy.

Principle of Digital Archiving

  • Intellectual Property: IJHMS is committed to providing access to digital materials while respecting and upholding the intellectual property rights of authors and obtaining prior consent.
  • Access: Digital preservation activities are performed with the primary goal of long-term access to digital collections.
  • Authenticity: It ensures that data remains unaltered and the original data is preserved.

Challenges to the preservation of digital data

  • Technology (at the level of hardware, system software, application software, data and file formats, storage media readers and drivers)
  • Lack of metadata which results in the failure to locate information, also the inability to render and read the information, due to the lack of contextual information.
  • The media used to store digital records are usually unstable and deteriorate within a few years or decades at most, rendering the digital records inaccessible.
  • Incompatible File formats, especially for older software.
  • Digital records may be lost in the event of natural calamities such as fire, flood, earthquake, equipment failure, or virus attack that disables stored data and systems.
  • The digital records may be well protected, but so poorly identified and described that potential users cannot find them.
  • Discontinuation of journal due to any reason leads the published research to extinct, digital preservation keeps the research available.

Self-Archiving Rights

All authors hold full copyright and self-archiving rights. Our self-archiving policies are detailed in the Internet Archive, CLOCKSS and LOCKSS. Additionally, authors are allowed to archive their articles in open-access repositories. 

IJHMS is archived in:

Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.

CLOCKSS
CLOCKSS, or Controlled LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), is a shared dark archive that runs on LOCKSS technology. CLOCKSS's content is hosted on 12 servers around the world, at leading academic libraries, with robust infrastructure and security.

LOCKSS
LOCKSS is a widely-accepted best practice in the digital preservation field and more broadly for ensuring the persistence of digital information. LOCKSS is a general-purpose digital preservation technology and solutions provider and a pillar of Stanford Libraries digital library portfolio. LOCKSS is an international community of institutions and networks working together to advance their digital preservation capabilities. LOCKSS is a research-based, open-source software application providing for robust, peer-to-peer digital preservation.