Digital Archiving
Thi-Qar Medical Journal,is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, and integrity of all published scholarly content. To achieve robust and secure digital preservation, Thi-Qar Medical Journal utilizes internationally recognized archiving systems, including:
1. College of Medicine, University of Thi-Qar, Iraq.
2. PKP Preservation Network (PKP PLN)
As part of its OJS (Open Journal Systems) infrastructure,Thi-Qar Medical Journal participates in the PKP Preservation Network, which offers decentralized, LOCKSS-based long-term archiving to ensure that the journal’s content remains safe, discoverable, and permanently accessible.
Commitment to Long-Term Accessibility
By archiving content through Portico and PKP PLN, Thi-Qar Medical Journal ensures:
- Permanent preservation of all published articles
- Redundancy and data security through distributed archiving
- Ongoing accessibility regardless of changes to hosting systems
- Compliance with international digital preservation standards required by Scopus, Clarivate, COPE, and major global libraries
- Stable metadata and DOI resolution for long-term citation reliability
These archiving mechanisms safeguard the journal’s scholarly record, promote reproducibility, and ensure that research published in JBB remains available to the global scientific community indefinitely.
