Preservation and archiving policy

The Primary Education Journal is committed to the long-term preservation and accessibility of all published articles. To ensure the permanent availability of its scholarly content, the journal employs multiple preservation strategies in line with international best practices.

The Primary Education Journal follows established international principles for digital preservation, including:

  • Redundancy of storage
  • Metadata preservation
  • Open access availability
  • Long-term format stability

The LOCKSS program and PKP preservation network

The Primary Education Journal supports the LOCKSS program. The LOCKSS program offers decentralized and distributed preservation, seamless perpetual access, and preservation of the authentic original version of the content. In this context, all articles published in The Primary Education Journal are digitally preserved for long-term access within the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), which is part of the LOCKSS program. The PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) allows journals to digitally preserve their content. This means in the event that a journal stops publishing or goes offline, there will be a way to have continued long-term access to articles and issues.

All articles published in The Primary Education Journal are preserved by PKP PN members who are participating in the PN by hosting a preservation node listed below:

  • University of Alberta
  • University of British Columbia
  • Indiana University
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • University of Victoria
  • Simon Fraser University
  • Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), Scholars Portal
  • National Documentation Centre (EKT), Greece

In addition, PKP is working with other potential preservation nodes and networks around the world to provide further redundancy and geographical distribution within the PKP PN.

Zenodo

All articles published in The Primary Education Journal are digitally preserved for long-term access within the Zenodo. Zenodo is a general-purpose data repository built on open source software that accepts all forms of research output from data files to presentation files. It was developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Data is stored in the CERN Data Center, which provides long-term preservation. Zenodo is the primary distribution partner for The Primary Education Journal. Zenodo assigns all publicly available uploads a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to make the upload easily and uniquely citable. Thanks to the power and long-term mission of the CERN Data Centre, all articles published in The Primary Education Journal will always be accessible to current and future generations.

The Internet Archive

All articles published in The Primary Education Journal are also digitally preserved for long-term access within the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Their mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge. Also we assign all articles in the Internet Archive a Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL). PURLs are persistent URLs, they provide permanent addresses for resources on the web.

Archiving

The Primary Education Journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).  This license permits and also journal encourages authors to self-archive Accepted Manuscript (AM) or Version of Record (VOR) also Author’s Original Manuscript (AOM) of their articles in any website indicated in journal's Open access and licensing policy. Authors may self-archive articles, including but not limited to those listed below, in the locations specified below:

  • Institutional repositories
  • Subject repositories
  • Personal websites
  • Academic social networks (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu)

Self-archived versions must be acknowledged with citation within the scope of the licence requirements.