ARCHIVING & DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICY

The Link journal of Speech, Language and Audiology (JSLA) is committed to ensuring permanent, secure, and reliable preservation of all published content. The journal’s digital preservation strategy is designed to protect the scholarly record and to maintain long-term accessibility of articles even in circumstances such as technical disruption, cyber incidents, platform migration, or journal closure. Preservation is treated as a core publishing responsibility, and JSLA implements both external preservation services and internal continuity controls to reduce the risk of content loss and to support enduring access for readers, authors, and indexing systems.

Long-term Digital Preservation Systems

1.1 PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN)

JSLA participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) as its primary long-term digital preservation mechanism. Through PKP PN, published content is preserved using an automated and distributed preservation approach designed for Open Journal Systems (OJS) journals, supporting redundancy across geographically distributed preservation nodes and reducing the risk of single-point failure. This system strengthens the durability of published articles over time and provides a structured pathway for maintaining long-term access under circumstances that may affect the journal platform.

1.2 Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)

In addition to PKP PN preservation, the JSLA website and its publicly available article pages may be periodically captured by the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) as an additional layer of public redundancy. While the timing and coverage of captures depend on the Internet Archive’s crawling and preservation processes, such archival snapshots can provide supplementary access pathways for readers and can support verification of the historical record in the event of site disruption or migration.

Self-Archiving & Repository Preservation

JSLA supports broad repository-based preservation through author self-archiving. Authors may deposit the preprint (submitted version), post-print (accepted manuscript), and the published Version of Record (published PDF) in institutional repositories, subject repositories where eligible, national digital libraries, and personal or professional websites, in line with the journal’s Self-Archiving provisions and the reuse permissions of the CC BY 4.0 license. This distributed deposit approach strengthens preservation by ensuring that scholarly outputs remain discoverable and accessible across multiple independent platforms.

Local Server Backups

To support operational resilience and rapid recovery from technical failure or security incidents, JSLA maintains routine backup procedures for journal systems and published content. These measures are designed to protect against accidental data loss, corruption, or infrastructure disruption, and typically include incremental backups, periodic full backups, secure storage practices, and recovery protocols. Access to backups is restricted and managed to reduce risk of unauthorized modification, while maintaining the ability to restore services and content when required.

Metadata Preservation

JSLA preserves published articles together with structured metadata to support long-term discoverability, interoperability, and reliable indexing. Article records are maintained with persistent identifiers and standard bibliographic fields, and the journal supports metadata exposures used by scholarly discovery systems and repositories. Where applicable and provided by authors, JSLA maintains identifiers and metadata elements such as DOI registration data, ORCID information, and standardized metadata formats used for indexing and harvesting, including OAI-PMH and widely adopted bibliographic schemas, to ensure that article-level records remain findable and citable over time.

Article Permanence

Once an article is published in JSLA, it forms part of the permanent scholarly record and is intended to remain accessible indefinitely. Published content is not removed or replaced, except through formal post-publication actions that preserve transparency and traceability, such as corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions. Where retractions occur, the article remains publicly accessible with clear labeling and is linked to an explanatory notice so that readers can understand the status and reasons while maintaining continuity of the historical record.

Distributed Global Archiving

To strengthen preservation pathways and global discoverability, JSLA may make article metadata and records available through reputable scholarly indexing, harvesting, and discovery services where eligible. By enabling standardized metadata exposure and participating in established preservation and discovery ecosystems, JSLA supports long-term access and reduces dependence on any single platform for findability and retrieval.