Digital Preservation Policy

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (JHRS) is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, integrity, and accessibility of its scholarly content. The journal applies recognized international standards and multiple preservation mechanisms to guarantee that all published articles remain permanently available to the scholarly community.

PKP Preservation Network (PN)

JHRS participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PN), a free digital preservation service provided by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) for journals using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.

The PKP Preservation Network:

  • Preserves journal content in a secure, distributed archival environment

  • Ensures long-term digital preservation of published articles

  • Protects content against data loss, technical failure, or journal discontinuation

  • Allows archived content to be restored and made publicly accessible if the journal website becomes unavailable

All eligible JHRS content is automatically deposited in the PKP Preservation Network upon publication.

LOCKSS and CLOCKSS

The journal’s content is also compatible with the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) archiving systems. These systems provide decentralized, library-managed digital preservation through multiple geographically distributed nodes.

LOCKSS and CLOCKSS ensure:

  • Redundant storage through multiple archival copies

  • Continuous verification of content integrity

  • Preservation independent of the publisher’s infrastructure

EPrints and Institutional Repositories

JHRS supports the self-archiving of published articles in EPrints-based institutional repositories and other trusted open repositories.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit:

  • The published version of record or

  • The final peer-reviewed manuscript

in EPrints repositories, in accordance with the journal’s open access and copyright policies.

This practice further enhances:

  • Long-term preservation

  • Institutional redundancy

  • Global discoverability of published research

Commitment to Permanent Access

Through the combined use of PKP Preservation Network, LOCKSS/CLOCKSS systems, and EPrints-compatible repositories, JHRS ensures that:

  • All published content remains permanently accessible

  • The scholarly record is preserved without alteration

  • Metadata and full-text content are securely archived and retrievable

This digital preservation policy supports the journal’s mission to provide sustainable, reliable open access to high-quality research in health and rehabilitation sciences.