A published article must remain permanently accessible, even if this journal one day ceases to operate. That assurance is structural, not a matter of trust: your paper does not depend on us to survive.
Every article gets
- Independent open deposits. Each article and its reproducibility package (code and data) will be deposited to Zenodo upon publication, a CERN-operated, publisher-independent repository that mints its own identifiers. In a total failure on our side, the work still sits in an independent place, openly.
- Dark archiving. A dark-archive arrangement (CLOCKSS or Portico, at the first revenue milestone) will be in place. Dark archives are library-run networks whose defining mechanism is the trigger event: if the publisher stops serving the content, the archive releases it open and takes over hosting.
- Persistent identifiers. Every article will carry a DOI registered with Crossref. DOIs resolve through the global DOI system, not through this domain. If the content moves, the DOI is repointed and the identifier stays constant.
- The licence as a preservation mechanism. Because articles publish under CC-BY 4.0 with copyright retained by the authors, the author (and anyone else) may lawfully re-host the paper anywhere, forever. No one can withdraw the work from circulation (see open access & licensing).
Continuity commitment
Should the journal ever wind down, we will deposit all published content and its reproducibility packages openly and release the dark-archive trigger. Publications are meant to outlive the publisher.
Visible on every article
Each published article will state its own preservation line: where its deposit lives, its DOI, and its licence, so readers and authors can check it. As each arrangement above goes live, this page names it with its date.