Archiving Policy

JSMS is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, integrity, and accessibility of its published scholarly content. To safeguard the permanent scholarly record, the journal employs multiple trusted digital preservation systems, including the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), and CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS). Through PKP PN, all journal content published via Open Journal Systems (OJS), including articles, metadata, and supplementary materials, is preserved in a decentralised and sustainable archive, ensuring continued access even in the event of journal discontinuation. The Global LOCKSS Network further provides geographically distributed copies of published material to protect against data loss and technical failure, while CLOCKSS serves as a community-governed dark archive that preserves content and makes it openly available under defined trigger events, such as catastrophic system failure or cessation of publication. JSMS grants explicit permission for its content to be preserved by these archiving services, and all archived materials are maintained in their final published form to ensure authenticity, permanence, and protection against unauthorised alteration, in accordance with international best practices in digital preservation and scholarly publishing.