Archiving & Digital Preservation Policy

The Yemeni Journal of Life Sciences  is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, authenticity, and integrity of all published scholarly content. The journal adopts recognized digital preservation practices to minimize the risk of data loss and to ensure the permanent availability of the scholarly record.

1. Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to ensure that all published articles remain permanently accessible, even in the event of technical failure, server disruption, website migration, or organizational changes.

2. Website Backup and Data Protection

The journal performs regular backups of:

  • Website files
  • Published article files (PDFs and supplementary materials)
  • Journal database
  • System configuration files

Backup copies are securely stored to support data recovery and business continuity.

3. Long-Term Digital Preservation

The journal is committed to implementing a recognized long-term digital preservation service for its published content.

The Editorial Office periodically evaluates trusted preservation solutions, including preservation services designed for Open Journal Systems (OJS), to ensure permanent accessibility of published articles.

Once implemented, this policy will be updated to identify the preservation service used by the journal.

Note: Until a certified external preservation service is activated, preservation is maintained through routine server backups and institutional management procedures.

4. Persistent Identifiers

Each published article receives a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) through Crossref.

The DOI provides:

  • Permanent identification of the article
  • Stable citation links
  • Reliable long-term discoverability

5. Self-Archiving

Authors are encouraged to archive the published Version of Record in:

  • Institutional repositories
  • Subject repositories
  • Personal academic webpages
  • ResearchGate
  • Zenodo
  • OSF

The journal imposes no embargo period on self-archiving, provided that the original publication in YJLS is properly acknowledged.

6. Retraction and Corrections

Published articles constitute part of the permanent scholarly record.

When necessary:

  • Corrections will be issued transparently.
  • Retractions will remain publicly accessible.
  • Retraction notices will be linked to the original article.

Published articles are not removed except under exceptional legal circumstances.

7. Policy Review

This policy is reviewed periodically by the Editorial Office to ensure compliance with evolving international publishing standards and best practices in digital preservation.

8. Responsibility

The Publisher and Editorial Office are responsible for implementing, maintaining, and periodically reviewing this policy.