Digital preservation policy
Scientia et PRAXIS ensures the long-term digital preservation of all published content through interoperable, decentralized systems aligned with international standards for open access, academic integrity, and digital conservation.
1. Active Preservation Systems
All published materials are archived through the following technical infrastructures:
- PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN). An active preservation system developed by the Public Knowledge Project based on LOCKSS technology (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), which distributes redundant copies of the content across a network of institutional library nodes worldwide. The official PKP PN plugin is installed, enabled, and fully operational on our OJS platform.
- LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe). A distributed preservation network developed and managed by Stanford University. It operates through decentralized library nodes that store exact copies of published content and continuously verify their integrity. This system ensures the authenticity, availability, and permanence of academic publications.
Our journal's OJS platform features the LOCKSS Gateway, which enables technical interoperability with the LOCKSS network and prepares the infrastructure for future operational integration by international preservation standards.
CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS). A trusted preservation network certified by academic libraries and scholarly publishers. Unlike LOCKSS, CLOCKSS opens access to content only if the original publication ceases operations, functioning as a "dark archive" or archival system of last resort.
The journal maintains the CLOCKSS Gateway enabled on its OJS platform, ensuring technical interoperability with this infrastructure and readiness for integration by international digital conservation frameworks.
2. Harvesting and Indexing in International Infrastructures
The contents and metadata of Scientia et PRAXIS are exposed through the OAI-PMH protocol (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), enabling automated harvesting and integration into various international open-access academic infrastructures, including:
- BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine).
- CORE (Commonwealth Open Research Explorer).
- Internet Archive (Archiving of Public Historical Snapshots)
- OAIster (OCLC WorldCat Harvesting Service)
- OpenAIRE (European Open Science Infrastructure)
- OpenAlex (Open Metadata and Citation Graph)
- WorldCat (Global Library Cooperative)
- Zenodo (CERN Open Repository for Research Outputs)
These integrations enhance the visibility, interoperability, technical preservation, and long-term traceability of the published content, ensuring its availability even in the event of editorial or technological contingencies.
3. Licensing and Academic Reuse
All content published in Scientia et PRAXIS is distributed under the following open-access license:
This license guarantees the rights of preservation, access, redistribution, and non-commercial adaptation of articles, promoting open access, the responsible use of scientific knowledge, and nonprofit interinstitutional collaboration.
