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.
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.
