Journal of Inclusive and Innovative Educational Technology

Archiving Policy

Journal of Inclusive and Innovative Educational Technology is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, integrity, and dissemination of all scholarly content published in the journal. This policy explains the journal’s commitment to digital preservation, archiving, and author self-archiving in order to protect the scholarly record and support open access principles.

The journal recognizes that published articles must remain available for future readers, researchers, authors, libraries, repositories, indexing databases, and the wider academic community. Therefore, the journal implements digital preservation strategies and allows authors to deposit their work in institutional repositories, subject repositories, academic networks, personal websites, or other scholarly platforms.

1. Digital Preservation Policy

Digital preservation refers to the process of maintaining and protecting digital scholarly content so that it remains accessible, authentic, and usable over time. Journal of Inclusive and Innovative Educational Technology supports digital preservation to prevent permanent loss of published content due to technical failure, website disruption, institutional change, cyber incidents, journal discontinuation, or other risks.

The journal’s digital preservation policy aims to:

  1. Ensure the long-term availability of published articles.
  2. Protect journal content from data loss and technical failure.
  3. Maintain the authenticity and integrity of the scholarly record.
  4. Support the discoverability and accessibility of published content.
  5. Ensure continued access to journal content if the official journal website becomes unavailable.
  6. Strengthen the journal’s commitment to open access publishing.

2. Digital Archiving System

To support long-term digital preservation, Journal of Inclusive and Innovative Educational Technology may use recognized digital preservation systems, including PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), LOCKSS, and CLOCKSS.

PKP Preservation Network

PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) is a digital preservation service developed for journals using Open Journal Systems. Through PKP PN, journal content can be preserved in a secure preservation network. PKP PN functions as a dark archive, meaning that preserved content is not normally accessed by readers while the journal website remains active. The preserved content may become publicly accessible only when a specific trigger event occurs, such as journal discontinuation, long-term unavailability, or cessation of content deposits.

LOCKSS

LOCKSS stands for Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe. It is a distributed digital preservation system that keeps multiple copies of scholarly content in different locations. This system reduces the risk of permanent content loss and helps ensure that authentic versions of published articles can be restored when needed.

CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS stands for Controlled LOCKSS. It is a trusted digital archive designed to preserve scholarly content for the long term. CLOCKSS may release preserved content to the public if a trigger event occurs, such as publisher failure, journal discontinuation, or permanent unavailability of the original journal website.

By supporting these preservation mechanisms, the journal seeks to ensure that published articles remain part of the permanent scholarly record.

3. Content Covered by Digital Preservation

The journal’s digital preservation and archiving efforts may include:

  1. Article metadata.
  2. Full-text article files in PDF, HTML, or other available formats.
  3. Issue information.
  4. Supplementary files, when available.
  5. Publication records generated through OJS.
  6. Other scholarly materials related to published articles.

The journal makes reasonable efforts to ensure that archived content accurately reflects the final published version of record.

4. Access to Preserved Content

As long as the official journal website remains active and accessible, readers may access all published articles directly through the journal website. Preserved content stored in dark archives such as PKP PN or CLOCKSS may not be directly accessible during normal journal operation.

If a trigger event occurs, preserved content may be made available through the preservation network or designated archive platform. This ensures that scholarly content remains accessible even if the original journal website is no longer available.

5. Repository Policy and Author Self-Archiving

Journal of Inclusive and Innovative Educational Technology supports author self-archiving. Authors are permitted to deposit, archive, and share their scholarly work in institutional repositories, subject repositories, academic networks, personal websites, preprint servers, or other scholarly platforms.

Authors may deposit and share the following versions of their manuscript:

Preprint Version

Authors may deposit and share the preprint version of their manuscript. A preprint is the version of the manuscript before peer review and before formal acceptance by the journal.

Authors may upload the preprint version to repositories, preprint servers, personal websites, or academic platforms. After the article is published, authors are encouraged to update the preprint record by adding the citation and official link to the final published article in Journal of Inclusive and Innovative Educational Technology.

Accepted Manuscript Version

Authors may deposit and share the accepted manuscript version. The accepted manuscript is the version that has passed peer review and has been accepted for publication but has not yet undergone final copyediting, layout editing, proofreading, and journal formatting.

When sharing the accepted manuscript, authors should clearly state that the manuscript has been accepted for publication in Journal of Inclusive and Innovative Educational Technology.

Published Article Version

Authors may deposit and share the final published article or version of record. The published article is the final version that has been copyedited, formatted, and officially published on the journal website.

Authors are allowed to upload and distribute the published PDF or HTML version in institutional repositories, subject repositories, academic networks, personal websites, research profiles, or other scholarly repositories.

6. No Embargo Policy

Journal of Inclusive and Innovative Educational Technology does not apply an embargo period for self-archiving. Authors may deposit and share the preprint, accepted manuscript, and published article immediately after the relevant version is available.

This no-embargo policy supports open access, scholarly communication, article visibility, citation impact, and the wider dissemination of research in inclusive and innovative educational technology.

7. Licensing and Reuse

All articles published in Journal of Inclusive and Innovative Educational Technology are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

This license allows users to copy, distribute, share, adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the published work in any medium or format, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), the original source is cited, and any derivative work is distributed under the same license.

The journal’s self-archiving and digital preservation policies are consistent with the open access license applied to published articles.

8. Citation Requirement for Deposited Articles

When depositing or sharing the accepted manuscript or published article, authors must provide proper citation to the original publication. The citation should include:

  1. Author name(s).
  2. Article title.
  3. Journal name.
  4. Volume, issue, and page number or article number, if available.
  5. Year of publication.
  6. DOI or official article URL, if available.
  7. License information.

Recommended statement:

This article has been published in Journal of Inclusive and Innovative Educational Technology and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

9. Author Rights

Authors retain the right to:

  1. Deposit the preprint version in repositories or preprint servers.
  2. Deposit the accepted manuscript in institutional or subject repositories.
  3. Deposit the final published article in institutional repositories, academic networks, personal websites, or other scholarly platforms.
  4. Share the article for teaching, research, academic discussion, and scholarly communication.
  5. Reuse the article in future works, such as books, book chapters, teaching materials, reports, conference presentations, or learning resources, with proper acknowledgment of the original publication.

10. Journal Commitment

Journal of Inclusive and Innovative Educational Technology is committed to maintaining a sustainable digital preservation and self-archiving policy. The editorial team and journal manager will regularly review the journal’s archiving settings, preservation status, and technical compatibility with OJS preservation services.

Through digital preservation, repository support, and no-embargo self-archiving, the journal ensures that published scholarly works remain accessible, discoverable, reusable, and preserved for future academic use.