Archiving and Preservation

Digital Archive

The Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Science and Education (IJSSE), published by the Indonesian Academy of Social and Religious Research (IASRR), is committed to the permanent availability and long-term preservation of the scholarly works it publishes. To keep published content accessible, IJSSE migrates digital file formats to current technical standards whenever necessary, maintains its own digital archive, and works with external indexing and preservation services.

Local Archive

IJSSE maintains a complete and accurate digital copy of every published article. Articles are published and preserved in Portable Document Format (PDF), and their bibliographic metadata are stored in the journal's Open Journal Systems (OJS) database.

Website Archiving

All electronic content of IJSSE, including the journal website, published articles, and manuscript records, is stored in three separate locations. One copy is online and accessible to readers, while two further copies are kept as backups. If the primary server fails, one of the backup copies can be brought online, and the website is expected to be accessible again within 24–36 hours.

Self-Archiving

IJSSE supports self-archiving. Authors retain the copyright of their work, and all articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence. Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit the final published version of their articles in personal or institutional repositories immediately after publication, provided that full bibliographic details and the DOI are included to acknowledge the original publication in IJSSE.

Indexing and Persistent Identifiers

Every published article is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registered with Crossref under the prefix 10.53639/ijsse, ensuring a permanent link to the article. The abstracting and indexing services of IJSSE, including Google Scholar, Dimensions, Garuda, Index Copernicus, OpenAlex, Scilit, and WorldCat, store essential information about each article, and several of them also link to or hold copies of the full text, providing the scholarly community with access routes in addition to the journal website. A complete list is available on the Indexing and Abstracting page.

Metadata Harvesting

IJSSE makes its article metadata available in accordance with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), enabling the automated harvesting of its articles by other digital archives and discovery services. IJSSE supports the non-exclusive archiving of its articles by as many reputable international archives as possible, in order to ensure the security and permanent accessibility of the research it publishes.

PKP Preservation Network

IJSSE participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), a LOCKSS-based (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) service provided by the Public Knowledge Project for journals published on Open Journal Systems. Through PKP PN, copies of IJSSE content are preserved across a distributed network of servers, and the content can be made available again if the journal website is no longer accessible.

If the Journal Ceases Publication

IJSSE and IASRR intend to continue publishing the journal for the long term. Should the journal cease publication for any reason, all articles already published will remain online and accessible to readers for at least ten (10) years. In the event of a discontinuation or a catastrophic failure of the journal website, the content will remain accessible through the PKP Preservation Network and through the DOI records registered with Crossref.

Notice of Possible Litigation

If a written claim, complaint, subpoena, or other formal demand is made against IJSSE or IASRR, and documentation that could support or refute the claim exists in the journal's or IASRR's information systems (for example, e-mails, written records, or peer-review records), the editor receiving the claim shall immediately notify the editorial secretariat of the particulars of the claim. The secretariat, together with the Editor-in-Chief and the managing editor, shall notify all parties involved that any files associated with the matter must not be destroyed, and shall make targeted backups of the relevant files to ensure that they are preserved.

Information that the secretariat or editors store on local computers or other local media (for example, external drives or flash drives) shall also be retained and backed up to a secure location on IASRR's servers. All paper records shall likewise be kept and produced if required by legal action or formal demand. The secretariat and editors are prohibited from destroying any data upon notice of a potential claim. The deliberate destruction of identified data is a serious offence, and any person who deliberately destroys such data will be subject to disciplinary action.