Archiving Policy
Digital Preservation
Preserving DLHD's scholarly record beyond the life of the website.
Decision, Learning, and Human Development (DLHD) is committed to maintaining the long-term accessibility, authenticity, integrity, and discoverability of its published scholarly content. The journal distinguishes routine operational backup from long-term digital preservation and maintains a preservation plan designed to protect journal content against technical failure, data loss, service disruption, platform migration, and possible cessation of publishing activity.
Preservation Principle
Backup keeps a service running. Preservation keeps scholarship accessible.
DLHD's preservation approach is designed around multiple complementary layers rather than a single copy of the journal. Long-term preservation services will be identified publicly when active deposit and preservation status have been verified.
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Primary Publication Platform
Published articles, metadata, issue information, and journal records are maintained through the journal's Open Journal Systems (OJS) publishing environment.
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Operational Backup
The publisher maintains backup procedures for journal files, database records, and website resources to support recovery from routine technical failure or accidental data loss.
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Long-Term Preservation
DLHD's preservation plan includes deposit in an appropriate long-term digital preservation service compatible with OJS and recognized scholarly preservation practice.
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Continuity & Recovery
Preservation copies are intended to support continued access to published content if the journal website, hosting service, publisher, or current publishing platform becomes unavailable.
Preservation Architecture
Operational backup and long-term preservation serve different purposes
BK
Operational Backup
Operational backups support restoration after hosting failure, accidental deletion, database corruption, software error, or another short-term service disruption. They are part of the journal's continuity procedures but are not, by themselves, considered a substitute for independent long-term preservation.
LP
Long-Term Digital Preservation
Long-term preservation is intended to retain usable copies of scholarly content beyond changes in servers, software, organizations, or publishing arrangements. DLHD will use an appropriate preservation service and will identify the active service on this page once preservation deposits have been successfully verified.
Preservation Scope
What DLHD seeks to preserve
AR
Published Articles
Version-of-record article files and associated published content.
MD
Article Metadata
Titles, abstracts, author information, references, publication dates, and other descriptive metadata maintained by the journal.
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Issues & Journal Structure
Issue-level records and relationships needed to reconstruct the published scholarly record.
NT
Post-Publication Notices
Corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, and other integrity notices associated with published articles.
Distributed Preservation
Long-term preservation should not depend on a single server
OJS-compatible preservation infrastructure
DLHD is designed to use an appropriate external preservation mechanism compatible with Open Journal Systems. The preferred approach is a recognized preservation network or archiving service that maintains distributed or independently managed copies of published content.
The journal will not claim participation in a preservation network until deposit and preservation status have been successfully activated and verified.
Preservation Status
Long-term network verification in progress
This page will be updated to name the active preservation service when deposit status has been confirmed.
Journal Continuity
Access should survive disruption or cessation of publishing activity
If DLHD experiences prolonged technical disruption, migration to another publishing platform, transfer to another publisher, or permanent cessation of publication, the journal will make reasonable efforts to preserve continued access to already published scholarly content through available preservation copies, archival services, repositories, and persistent bibliographic records.
Published record first Cessation of new publication should not mean disappearance of previously published scholarship.
Platform Migration
Preservation includes maintaining continuity during technical change
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Export & Backup
Journal files, metadata, and database records are secured before major platform or hosting changes.
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Migration
Published content and relevant metadata are transferred to the replacement environment.
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Verification
Article files, issue structure, metadata, and internal links are checked after migration.
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Continuity
Persistent bibliographic identities and article access are maintained wherever technically possible.
Scholarly Record
Preservation must retain the status of the published Version of Record
Preservation procedures should retain the relationship between an article and any subsequent correction, expression of concern, retraction, or other post-publication notice. Archived content should not create an unmarked alternative version that obscures the current status of the scholarly record.
Corrections & Retractions Policy → Author Self-Archiving
Repository deposit complements—rather than replaces—journal preservation
DLHD supports responsible dissemination of scholarly work through institutional, disciplinary, or other appropriate repositories in accordance with the journal's copyright, licensing, and open-access terms. Repository copies provide an additional access route but do not replace the journal's responsibility for preserving the formal published record.
Open Access Policy → Preservation & Continuity
Questions about the preservation or availability of DLHD content?
Contact the editorial office regarding access to published content, archival continuity, or preservation-related concerns.