Preservation & Archiving Policy Statement

1. Commitment to Long-Term Preservation

Veridion Press is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, and integrity of the scholarly record. We recognise that reliable archiving infrastructure is essential for maintaining the availability of research outputs for future generations of scholars, institutions, and the wider public.

To safeguard published content against technological obsolescence, system failures, or organisational changes, Veridion Press implements recognised digital preservation strategies and participates in established archiving initiatives used across the global scholarly publishing ecosystem.

Our preservation approach follows international best practices for scholarly communication and supports the permanence and reliability of the academic record.

2. Digital Preservation Infrastructure

To ensure long-term accessibility, Veridion Press supports the preservation of published content through recognised archiving systems and repositories designed to maintain secure, redundant copies of scholarly publications.

Portico

Veridion Press supports long-term preservation through Portico, a trusted digital preservation service that ensures scholarly content remains accessible in the event that it is no longer available from the publisher.

Portico preserves digital scholarly materials and provides access to archived content under defined trigger events such as:

  • Publisher platform failure
  • Publisher ceasing operations
  • Catastrophic system loss
  • Discontinued titles

More information:
https://www.portico.org

Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network (PKP PN)

Veridion Press also participates in the Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network (PKP PN), which provides distributed digital preservation services for journals using Open Journal Systems (OJS).

The PKP PN ensures that journal content is automatically preserved across a network of geographically distributed nodes, protecting against data loss and ensuring continued accessibility.

More information:
https://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-pn/

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)

Veridion Press supports distributed archiving principles through the LOCKSS system, which allows libraries and preservation networks to maintain multiple secure copies of digital content.

LOCKSS enables participating institutions to store and verify content copies, ensuring long-term resilience through decentralised preservation.

More information:
https://www.lockss.org

CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS)

Where applicable, Veridion Press supports preservation through CLOCKSS, a community-governed archive built on LOCKSS technology.

CLOCKSS provides a dark archive of scholarly content that becomes openly accessible if a publisher’s content becomes unavailable.

More information:
https://clockss.org

3. Persistent Identifiers and Metadata Preservation

To support long-term discoverability and citation stability, Veridion Press assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to published articles.

DOIs ensure that scholarly works remain permanently identifiable even if the hosting platform changes.

Metadata associated with publications is maintained and preserved to support indexing, discoverability, and long-term scholarly reference.

4. Author Self-Archiving Policy

Self-Archiving

Veridion Press permits and encourages authors to share and archive their research responsibly.

Authors may deposit versions of their work in:

  • Personal websites
  • Institutional repositories
  • Subject-specific repositories
  • Non-commercial academic sharing platforms

Authors may archive:

  • Preprints (submitted manuscript)
  • Postprints (accepted manuscript)

When archiving, authors must ensure that:

  • The final published article is properly cited
  • A link to the official journal version and DOI is included
  • The archived version clearly identifies the journal publication

These practices ensure proper attribution and support the integrity of the scholarly record.

5. Author Self-Archiving and Preprints

Preprints

Veridion Press supports the responsible use of preprint servers as part of open scholarly communication.

Authors may submit manuscripts that have been previously posted as preprints provided that:

  • The existence of the preprint is clearly disclosed at submission
  • The preprint source is cited within the manuscript
  • The preprint has not undergone formal peer review elsewhere

Following journal publication, authors should update the preprint record to include:

  • The DOI of the published article
  • The full journal citation
  • A link to the official version of record

This ensures that readers can easily locate and cite the authoritative published article.

6. Version of Record Integrity

The Version of Record (VoR) hosted by Veridion Press represents the authoritative and final scholarly publication.

While earlier manuscript versions may be archived by authors, the Version of Record remains the definitive citable version maintained by the publisher.

Post-publication updates such as corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions are applied to the Version of Record to preserve the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record.

7. Archiving and Institutional Repositories

Veridion Press encourages the responsible dissemination of research through institutional and disciplinary repositories.

Repositories hosting archived manuscripts should:

  • Preserve the integrity of the original manuscript version
  • Include proper citation of the journal publication
  • Link to the DOI of the final article
  • Clearly indicate manuscript version status

8. Continuity of Access

In the unlikely event that Veridion Press ceases to operate or is unable to provide access to its content, preservation partners such as Portico, CLOCKSS, or PKP PN ensure that the scholarly record remains accessible.

These preservation systems ensure that research outputs remain available to the academic community regardless of changes in publishing infrastructure.

9. Commitment to the Scholarly Record

Veridion Press is committed to maintaining the permanence, accessibility, and reliability of scholarly publications.

Through recognised digital preservation initiatives, distributed archiving networks, and responsible author archiving policies, we ensure that research published with Veridion Press remains part of the enduring global scholarly record.