Commitment to Long-Term Scholarly Access

Innovation Midwifery and Child Health Practice (IMCHP) is committed to preserving the integrity, accessibility, authenticity, and long-term usability of its published scholarly record. The journal recognizes that digital preservation extends beyond website availability and therefore combines platform-level retention, metadata persistence, publisher continuity procedures, author self-archiving rights, and external preservation services where such services are formally enabled.

The objective of this policy is to reduce the risk of permanent content loss arising from technical failure, platform migration, cybersecurity incidents, organizational change, or other disruptions affecting the journal's primary publication environment.

IMCHP preserves published articles and associated scholarly metadata so that the scientific record remains identifiable, retrievable, citable, and usable over time. Preservation activities are intended to support research continuity, citation reliability, scholarly verification, and continued public access to the journal's Version of Record.

IMCHP is published through Open Journal Systems (OJS). The journal platform maintains the primary online publication record, including article files, issue structures, bibliographic metadata, editorial records, and related journal content.

Platform availability alone is not treated as equivalent to independent digital preservation. The journal therefore supplements primary hosting with continuity, backup, metadata, and repository measures described in this policy.

The publisher is responsible for maintaining operational backup and recovery procedures appropriate to the journal's technical infrastructure. Preservation planning should include, where technically available:

• regular backup of the OJS database;
• backup of article files, supplementary files, journal images, and configuration data;
• separation of working copies from backup copies where feasible;
• controlled restoration procedures following data corruption, server failure, or accidental loss;
• periodic verification that archived files remain readable and recoverable.

IMCHP assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and deposits article metadata with Crossref as part of its publication workflow. DOI registration contributes to persistent identification, citation linking, and metadata discoverability.

IMCHP may participate in recognized digital preservation services or preservation networks appropriate to OJS and scholarly publishing. Examples may include PKP Preservation Network, LOCKSS/CLOCKSS, Portico, institutional preservation services, or other trusted repositories.

A service is identified publicly as an active IMCHP preservation mechanism only after participation, deposit, or preservation coverage has been formally enabled or verified. The journal does not represent a preservation platform as active solely because the service exists or is technically compatible with OJS.

When an external preservation arrangement becomes active, IMCHP may update this page to identify the service and provide a verifiable link or coverage information. This approach ensures that archiving claims on the journal website remain accurate and auditable.

In accordance with IMCHP's Open Access and Copyright & Licensing policies, authors may deposit manuscript versions in appropriate institutional, disciplinary, funder, or personal scholarly repositories.

Where future technical changes make a publication format obsolete or inaccessible, IMCHP may migrate preserved content into newer formats while maintaining the scholarly content, bibliographic identity, authorship, DOI, and publication history of the Version of Record.

Migration to a new website, domain, OJS version, hosting provider, or publication platform should preserve DOI resolution, article metadata, issue structure, and access to published files wherever technically possible.

In the event of server failure, cyber incident, accidental deletion, platform discontinuation, or other disruption, the publisher should prioritize restoration of the journal website, article files, metadata, DOI links, and editorial records from available backup or preservation copies. Major migrations or disruptions should be managed so that published content remains identifiable and citable.

Archiving does not mean that the scholarly record is immutable. Corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, removals in exceptional circumstances, and other post-publication notices are preserved and linked to the affected article in accordance with the IMCHP Publication Ethics policy. Where an article is retracted, the bibliographic record should normally remain available with an appropriate retraction notice rather than simply disappearing from the archive.

Published IMCHP content remains openly accessible in accordance with the journal's Gold Open Access model and applicable Creative Commons license. Preservation and repository mechanisms are intended to support continuity of access, not to introduce subscription barriers to archived scholarly content.

This Archiving Policy is reviewed periodically and may be updated when the journal adopts new preservation services, changes hosting infrastructure, migrates platforms, modifies licensing arrangements, or introduces additional continuity measures. Material changes should be reflected transparently on the official IMCHP website.

Preservation, Indexing, and Dissemination Are Different Functions

Search engines, academic social networks, citation databases, and indexing services can increase discovery and dissemination but should not automatically be described as long-term digital preservation systems. IMCHP therefore distinguishes preservation infrastructure from services used primarily for indexing, metadata discovery, networking, or article promotion.

Policy Integration

This policy should be read together with the IMCHP Open Access Statement, Copyright & Licensing Policy, Publication Ethics, and Publication Process.

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