Digital Preservation Policy

Digital Preservation Policy

Business Innova Sciences establishes this Digital Preservation Policy with the purpose of ensuring the long-term preservation, integrity, authenticity, traceability, and availability of all scientific content published on its editorial platform.

The journal recognizes that digital preservation is an essential component of scientific communication and, therefore, is committed to implementing technical and administrative measures aimed at protecting its publications against potential information loss, technological failures, unauthorized alterations, or service interruptions.

To achieve these objectives, the following guidelines are established:

  1. Content Preservation and Storage

The journal maintains digital copies of published scientific articles, as well as their editorial files and associated metadata, through periodic storage and backup procedures. These measures are intended to prevent accidental information loss and facilitate content recovery in the event of technical incidents.

  1. Backup Copies and Information Recovery

The editorial platform implements periodic information backup procedures, including published article files, bibliographic records, and editorial metadata. Backup copies are stored securely and are supported by recovery mechanisms designed to restore information in the event of system failures, technological incidents, or data loss.

  1. Integrity and Authenticity of Publications

Business Innova Sciences adopts measures to preserve the integrity of published documents and prevent unauthorized modifications to their content. The final versions of articles are retained together with their bibliographic identification, authorship information, publication date, volume, issue, pagination or electronic identifier, and DOI.

Any post-publication modifications affecting scientific content are managed in accordance with the journal's editorial policies on corrections, updates, and retractions, ensuring the traceability of all changes made.

  1. Preservation of Digital Formats and Metadata

The journal preserves its publications in widely used digital formats suitable for the consultation and retrieval of scientific documents, prioritizing PDF and EPUB formats for reading and accessing articles.

Likewise, the journal maintains the bibliographic and editorial metadata necessary to facilitate the identification, retrieval, indexing, and citation of its content, including titles, authors, institutional affiliations, abstracts, keywords, publication dates, and DOI, where applicable.

  1. Accessibility and Availability of Content

The journal is committed to ensuring the permanent availability of published scientific articles through its electronic platform, facilitating access and downloads for the national and international academic community.

In the event of technical interruptions, platform migrations, or changes to technological infrastructure, the necessary measures will be adopted to restore access to content and preserve its links, bibliographic records, and digital identifiers, to the extent technically feasible.

  1. Long-Term Preservation and Security Mechanisms

Business Innova Sciences adopts long-term digital preservation mechanisms that contribute to ensuring continued access to its scientific output, considering specialized digital archiving services, institutional repositories, or distributed preservation systems, depending on their availability and operational capacity.

The journal incorporates recognized digital preservation systems, such as LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), CLOCKSS, or equivalent services, with the purpose of strengthening the preservation of its publications against potential contingencies that could compromise the availability of its primary platform.

  1. Institutional Responsibility

EXPIDEC Publishing House, as the publishing entity responsible for Business Innova Sciences, is responsible for promoting compliance with this policy and overseeing the implementation of the technical and administrative measures necessary to preserve published scientific content.

This policy will be reviewed periodically, taking into consideration technological developments, international best practices in scientific publishing, and the long-term preservation and access needs of the journal's editorial output.

  1. Effective Date and Scope of Application

This Digital Preservation Policy applies to all scientific articles and other academic content published by Business Innova Sciences. Compliance with this policy constitutes an institutional commitment to the integrity of the scholarly record, the continuity of academic communication, and the preservation of knowledge for present and future generations.