Archiving and Preservation

The Journal of Intelligent Financial Systems and Autonomous Management is committed to the long-term preservation of its published content, ensuring that articles remain accessible to readers in perpetuity, regardless of changes to the Journal, the publisher, or the hosting platform. This page describes the preservation arrangements in place, the persistent identifier infrastructure, the metadata harvesting endpoints, and the publisher's continuity commitment.

1. Active preservation arrangements

The Journal participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), a free, distributed, open-source preservation network operated by the Public Knowledge Project. The PKP PN is the standard preservation mechanism for journals using Open Journal Systems and is recognized by DOAJ as a qualifying long-term preservation arrangement. Content is replicated across multiple geographically distributed node sites operated by partner institutions, ensuring that the Journal's published articles remain available even if the Journal's primary hosting becomes unavailable.

The Journal is committed to expanding its preservation footprint over time. The publisher will evaluate participation in additional preservation networks, including CLOCKSS, LOCKSS, and Portico, as the Journal's portfolio expands and as eligibility criteria are met.

2. Persistent identifiers

The Journal is establishing Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration through Crossref. Once active, every article will be assigned a registered DOI that provides a permanent, citable link to the article record and continues to resolve even if the Journal's hosting URL changes, and full article metadata, including title, abstract, authors, affiliations, references, and funding information, will be deposited with Crossref at the point of publication. Until DOI registration is active, each article is citable through its permanent URL on the Journal site and through the OAI-PMH metadata described below. The Journal's DOI status is reflected on the Indexing and Abstracting page.

3. Metadata harvesting

The Journal exposes its full article metadata through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The OAI-PMH endpoint is at:

https://landing.wrunion.org/ojs/index.php/jifsa/oai

This endpoint enables aggregators, indexers, repository networks, and preservation services to harvest the Journal's metadata in standard formats, including Dublin Core. From the date of first publication, this endpoint is available to the Journal's harvesting partners and to open-access aggregators.

4. Registry and index retention

As the Journal is admitted to indexing and registry services, each such service independently retains journal records as part of its operational infrastructure. While indexing services are not preservation services in the formal sense, the metadata they retain provides a secondary record of the Journal's published output that persists independently of the Journal's hosting infrastructure. The Journal's current indexing position is described on the Indexing and Abstracting page, which is updated as each listing is achieved.

5. Backups and operational resilience

The publisher maintains regular backups of all journal content, files, and metadata as part of standard hosting operations. Backups support operational resilience against routine technical failures, complementing, but not replacing, the long-term preservation provided by the PKP Preservation Network.

6. Article-format preservation

Articles are published as text-based PDFs, not as scanned images. This means that the article text remains machine-readable, searchable, and accessible to assistive technology, and can be re-rendered or migrated to future document formats without loss of content. Article metadata is stored in standard, structured formats (JATS-compatible where applicable; Dublin Core for OAI-PMH harvesting) designed for long-term migration and reuse.

7. Continuity commitment

In the event that the Journal ceases publication, the publisher commits to:

  • Maintaining the Journal website and its archived content for a minimum of five years following the cessation date;
  • Ensuring that all published articles remain accessible through the PKP Preservation Network and through any other preservation partners active at the time, at their persistent identifiers where assigned;
  • Notifying indexing services, registries, and the Journal's authors and reviewers of the cessation in good time;
  • Where appropriate, transferring stewardship of the Journal's archived content to a partner institution able to maintain ongoing access.

This continuity commitment applies independently of any change in the publisher's operational status.

8. Effective date and revision

This Archiving and Preservation statement is effective from 27 June 2026. The Journal reviews this statement annually and updates it as preservation arrangements evolve, particularly as additional preservation services are added to the Journal's footprint. Material revisions are dated.