Continuity
JDHAB maintains backup and operational procedures intended to reduce the risk of data loss and support publishing continuity.
Archiving
DIGITAL PRESERVATION
Archiving
The Journal of Digital Health and Advanced Biomaterials — JDHAB is committed to the long-term preservation, integrity, accessibility, and discoverability of the scholarly record.
Journal of Digital Health and Advanced Biomaterials (JDHAB) is committed to the long-term preservation, integrity, accessibility, and discoverability of the scholarly record.
The journal recognizes digital preservation as a fundamental component of responsible scholarly communication and maintains policies intended to support the permanence, reliability, transparency, and long-term accessibility of published content.
Preservation Principles
Discoverability
Structured metadata, citation records, stable URLs, and bibliographic information support long-term retrieval and indexing.
Integrity
Published articles form part of the permanent scholarly record and are managed with transparency when corrections are required.
Access
The journal seeks to maintain continuous public access to published content whenever technically and legally feasible.
Digital Preservation
Platform Backups and Operational Continuity
The journal maintains routine backups of its publishing platform, submitted files, editorial records, and database content.
Backup procedures are designed to reduce the risk of accidental data loss, support operational continuity, and contribute to the long-term preservation of published materials.
Metadata and Discoverability
Structured Metadata and Citation Stability
JDHAB maintains structured article metadata, stable publication URLs, citation information, and standardized bibliographic records to support long-term discoverability, indexing, citation stability, persistent scholarly identification, and scholarly retrieval.
Identifiable and Citable Content
The journal seeks to ensure that published content remains identifiable, citable, and accessible over time through consistent metadata, publication records, article landing pages, PDF files, HTML views, and bibliographic information.
Content Integrity
Permanent Scholarly Record
Published articles form part of the permanent scholarly record.
Corrections, updates, expressions of concern, and retractions, when necessary, are managed in accordance with the journal’s editorial and publication ethics policies while preserving the transparency and integrity of the publication history.
Preservation Strategy
Recognized Preservation Practices
JDHAB supports the adoption of recognized preservation practices and seeks compatibility with established archiving and preservation frameworks used in scholarly communication.
Progressive Infrastructure Development
Preservation policies and technical infrastructure may evolve as the journal expands its indexing, registration, metadata, and preservation partnerships.
Long-Term Access
Commitment to Continued Availability
JDHAB is committed to maintaining continuous public access to published content whenever technically and legally feasible, ensuring that the scholarly record remains available to researchers, clinicians, educators, students, and the wider scientific community.
Commitment to the Scholarly Record
JDHAB recognizes preservation, metadata quality, accessibility, and citation stability as essential components of responsible open-access publishing and long-term scientific communication.
