Digital preservation policy

The International & Comparative Human Rights Review maintains a firm commitment to the permanent conservation, integrity, and accessibility of its published scientific output. To safeguard the academic record against technological contingencies, digital obsolescence, or data loss, the journal implements the following distributed archiving strategies:

  • LOCKSS Network (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe): Allows participating libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for conservation and restoration purposes. The journal server generates an Editorial Manifesto authorizing the automated and secure crawling of our published content.
  • CLOCKSS Network (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe): Complementarily, the publication is integrated into the CLOCKSS global dark archive. This mechanism guarantees the preservation of metadata and files across multiple decentralized nodes worldwide. In the event of an unforeseen disruption to the main platform, CLOCKSS ensures that articles remain freely and permanently available to future generations of researchers.
  • PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN): All manuscripts edited in digital format are automatically backed up in the Public Knowledge Project preservation network, providing an additional layer of redundancy and decentralized technical security.
  • Institutional contingency and interoperability repository: As an internal mechanism for immediate response to potential incidents, server outages, or temporary technical failures of the OJS platform, the publishing institution maintains an alternate web infrastructure that is accessible to the public. In this institutional space, the final PDF files of all issues published since the journal’s founding are duplicated, archived, and preserved in their entirety, ensuring uninterrupted access to and consultation of the full texts. This historical backup archive can be accessed at the following web address:  [https://www.academiaidh.org.mx/revista-icdh].

Through the adoption of these international standards, the journal guarantees that the intellectual contributions of the authors maintain their persistent digital identifier and remain discoverable and citable indefinitely over time.