Archiving Policy

Archiving Policy for the Lamadjdo Accounting Journal (LAJUR)

The Lamadjdo Accounting Journal (LAJUR) is dedicated to the long-term preservation of digital scholarly content to ensure its availability to future generations of researchers and scholars. The following outlines our archiving policy, which ensures the security and permanence of the published research:

  1. Digital Archiving:

    • Lamadjdo Accounting Journal (LAJUR) utilizes several digital archiving systems to store and safeguard journal content. This includes institutional repositories, third-party archiving services, and our own digital archives.
    • We prioritize systems that comply with the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model, which ensures that electronic records are preserved against all possible alterations and corruptions.

  2. Partnerships for Preservation:

    • Lamadjdo Accounting Journal (LAJUR) partners with well-established digital preservation initiatives like CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) and PORTICO, which are specialized services providing archiving solutions for academic journals. These services ensure that the journal's content is permanently archived and can be retrieved in the case of a catastrophic failure at the journal’s primary hosting site.

  3. Access to Archived Content:

    • Archived content will be made available through these partners’ platforms, ensuring that even if Lamadjdo Accounting Journal (LAJUR) ceases publication, the published material remains accessible to the academic community.
    • Users can access archived materials through the same DOI (Digital Object Identifier) link used for the current content, ensuring a seamless transition between live and archived content.

  4. Long-term Accessibility:

    • Our archiving strategy is designed to maintain the accessibility of journal content for a minimum of 100 years from the date of publication.
    • Regular audits and updates to the archiving systems are conducted to ensure compatibility with evolving digital formats and media.

  5. Rights and Permissions:

    • The archiving of materials does not alter the copyright status of the documents. Authors retain their rights over the archived materials, consistent with the journal’s copyright policy.
    • Reproduction of archived content in other works or publications requires permission from the copyright holders unless otherwise noted under the open access license.

  6. Backup and Disaster Recovery:

    • Regular backups of the digital archives are made and stored in multiple secure locations to protect against data loss due to system failures, natural disasters, or other unforeseen events.
    • Disaster recovery plans are in place to restore accessibility to the digital archive within 48 hours of a recognized outage or disaster event.

Lamadjdo Accounting Journal (LAJUR) commitment to the preservation of scholarly articles through its comprehensive archiving policy underscores the journal's role in the stewardship of academic knowledge and its dedication to serving the scholarly community both now and in the future.