Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy

The Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medical and Veterinary Sciences (JAIMVS) is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, authenticity, and integrity of all scholarly content published by the journal.

1. Digital Preservation

JAIMVS maintains regular backups of its website, journal content, article files, metadata, and associated publication records. Backup procedures are designed to minimize the risk of data loss resulting from technical failures, security incidents, or other unforeseen circumstances.

2. Persistent Access and Identifiers

All published articles are assigned persistent Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) through Crossref where applicable. DOIs facilitate permanent identification, citation, linking, and retrieval of published content.

The journal maintains the bibliographic and metadata records of published articles to support their long-term discoverability and accessibility.

3. Open Access and Author Rights

JAIMVS publishes its content under an open access model. Published articles remain freely accessible online, supporting the broad dissemination and long-term use of scientific knowledge.

Authors retain copyright of their work in accordance with the journal's Copyright Policy and the applicable Creative Commons license.

4. Metadata and Interoperability

JAIMVS uses recognized scholarly metadata standards and persistent identifiers to improve the discoverability and interoperability of its content. The journal supports integration with scholarly databases, indexing services, repositories, Crossref, and ORCID where applicable.

5. External Archiving and Preservation

JAIMVS seeks to participate in recognized digital preservation and archiving initiatives, including services such as LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), where available and appropriate.

The journal will update this policy as new preservation arrangements or archiving services are established.

6. Website and Platform Preservation

The journal's online publishing platform and published content are maintained to support continued access to articles, metadata, supplementary materials, and publication records. Where technical changes or platform migration occur, reasonable measures will be taken to preserve existing content and persistent links.

7. Continuous Review

JAIMVS periodically reviews its digital archiving and preservation practices and may adopt additional preservation solutions as technology and recognized standards in scholarly publishing evolve.

Through these measures, JAIMVS is committed to preserving the scientific record and ensuring that research in artificial intelligence, medicine, veterinary medicine, biomedical sciences, healthcare, and One Health remains accessible to current and future generations of researchers and readers.