Archiving and Digital Preservation Policies

The Universidad de Guayaquil Journal has, through OJS (Open Journal System), an archiving system that guarantees its digital preservation.

Likewise, the journal assigns a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), which is a persistent identifier, managed by Crossref, that guarantees identification and avoids localization problems due to URL changes or similar.

PKP Preservation Network (PN)

The PKP Preservation Network (PKP Preservation Network) provides free preservation services for any OJS journal that meets the basic criteria. In this regard, for digital preservation, articles are archived in LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), thus guaranteeing the journal a permanent and secure archive.

LOCKSS

Open Journal Systems supports the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system, which guarantees the journal a permanent and safe archive. LOCKSS is an open source program developed by the Stanford University Library that allows libraries to preserve selected web journals by regularly searching registered journals to collect new published content and archive it. Each archive is continuously validated against records from other libraries, so any damaged or lost content can be restored using those records or the journal itself.

Archived issues can be found in the LOCKSS Editorial Manifesto (https://revistas.ug.edu.ec/index.php/rug/gateway/lockss). In this way, articles are progressively archived, ensuring that the stored digital information can remain and continue to be used in the future.

CLOCKSS

Open Journal Systems also supports CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) to guarantee a permanent and secure archive for the journal. CLOCKSS is based on the open source LOCKSS software developed at Stanford University Library, which allows libraries to preserve selected web journals by regularly checking registered journal websites for recently published content and archiving it. Each archive is constantly validated against other library caches and, if it is detected that content has been corrupted or lost, the other caches or the journal are used to restore it.

CLOCKSS stores and distributes journal content to participating libraries through the CLOCKSS Publisher Manifest page: https://revistas.ug.edu.ec/index.php/rug/gateway/clockss.

The Revista Universidad de Guayaquil is also available and in open access in different databases, which guarantees identification and avoids localization problems due to URL changes or similar.

Finally, the journal publishes an HTML and EPUB version of each article, which allows its export to formats other than PDF, which currently exist or may appear in the future.