The management of International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research & Reviews ( IJMRR) recommends digital archiving for long term preservation, accessibility and usefulness of published data / works.
Archiving Policy
Principles of Archiving
- (i) Objectives of Archiving: The objective of digital archiving is to preserve and protect all published works for long-term with the help of sustainable archiving Policy.
- (ii) Intellectual Property Rights: Access to the digital collections should be in accordance with intellectual property rights of authors and necessary consent.
- (iii) Authentication: Make sure that unaltered information and the authentic data is preserved.
Challenges for Digital Archiving
- (i) There are different technological aspects like hardware, system software, applications and storage media.
- (ii) Limitation in metadata may restrict information accuracy. Furthermore, incompetancy to verify the information may lead to inadequacy of contextual information.
- (iii) The Infrastructure required to store digital database are usually less stable and may lead to inaccessiblity after few years of timeline.
- (iv) Software incompatibility of files according to their format.
- (v) Digital records may be damaged due to fire, earthquake, flood, system failures, virus attack on database and systems.
- (vi) In spite of well protected digital database, it may cause identification challenges for users.
- (vii) Change of abstracting and indexing can lead the published work to defunct, digital preservation retains the work available.
Self-Archiving Rights
Author(s) of published articles may self-archive the accepted (peer-reviewed) and online version of the article at any time.
The journal grants author(s) to archive their articles in open access repositories such as
- Author's personal website
- Author's institutional repository
- Archive in an non-profit subject-based servers or repositories.
IJMRR is archived in Portico, New York, NY- 10006 under River Publication House & Media. Portico(https://www.portico.org/publishers/rphm/) which is one of the leading digital preservation services in the world. It's a non- profit community-supported digital preservation archive that safeguards access to e-journals, e-books, and digital collections, ensuring their long-term preservation and accessibility for users.
Portico provides Archiving Stability, Clear Legal Rights, Access Rights, Transparency, Data Security and World Class support in the field of Archiving & Preservation.