DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICY

To ensure the long-term preservation, integrity, accessibility, and availability of the scientific content it publishes, Sapiens in Health Sciences (SHS) implements a formal digital preservation policy aligned with international standards and recognized best practices in scholarly publishing.

Preservation Strategies

The journal applies multiple preservation mechanisms designed to safeguard the permanence and recoverability of its digital assets, including:

• Regular backups of editorial files, databases, and journal servers.
• Continuous maintenance and updating of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform to reduce technological obsolescence and facilitate future migration processes.
• Preservation metadata management to support long-term accessibility, authenticity, and integrity of digital objects.
• Assignment of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to all published articles, ensuring persistent identification, traceability, citation, and retrieval.
• Storage and dissemination of published content in sustainable and widely accessible formats, including PDF, HTML, and other formats adopted by the journal.
• Application of preservation strategies such as data migration, technological updating, digital archiving, and other procedures intended to ensure continued access to scholarly content over time.
• Reduction of dependencies on proprietary systems whenever possible, thereby strengthening the long-term sustainability and accessibility of journal content.

Distributed Digital Preservation Networks

As a complementary preservation strategy, Sapiens in Health Sciences (SHS) participates in distributed digital preservation initiatives designed to ensure the long-term security and recovery of published content.

The journal is integrated into the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), a decentralized preservation service developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) that archives journal content across a distributed network of preservation nodes. This system guarantees permanent preservation and enables restoration of published content in the event of technical failures or data loss affecting the original servers.

The journal may also implement additional preservation mechanisms and distributed archiving services as part of its ongoing commitment to the long-term safeguarding of the scholarly record.

Permanent Availability of Published Content

All articles published by Sapiens in Health Sciences (SHS) remain permanently available through the journal’s official website and preservation infrastructure.

The journal is committed to maintaining unrestricted access to its published scientific record and to implementing the technical measures necessary to ensure the long-term availability, authenticity, and integrity of all scholarly content.

Interoperability Protocols

To maximize visibility, dissemination, and integration within the global scholarly communication ecosystem, Sapiens in Health Sciences (SHS) implements interoperability standards that enable the harvesting and indexing of its metadata by repositories, databases, discovery services, library systems, and other academic information platforms.

The journal provides an Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) interface, allowing external systems to automatically collect and update metadata associated with published articles.

Technical Specifications

The implementation of these interoperability standards facilitates the inclusion of the journal’s contents in indexing systems, repositories, search engines, and scientific discovery platforms, thereby enhancing the accessibility, dissemination, and long-term visibility of published research.