A published article must remain permanently accessible, even if this journal one day ceases to operate. That assurance is structural, not a matter of trust: your paper does not depend on us to survive.
Every article gets
- Independent open deposits. Each article and its reproducibility package (code and data) will be deposited to Zenodo upon publication, a CERN-operated, publisher-independent repository that mints its own identifiers. In a total failure on our side, the work still sits in an independent place, openly.
- Dark archiving. A dark-archive arrangement (CLOCKSS or Portico, at the first revenue milestone) will be in place. Dark archives are library-run networks whose defining mechanism is the trigger event: if the publisher stops serving the content, the archive releases it open and takes over hosting.
- Persistent identifiers. Every article will carry a DOI registered with Crossref. DOIs resolve through the global DOI system, not through this domain. If the content moves, the DOI is repointed and the identifier stays constant.
- The licence as a preservation mechanism. Because articles publish under CC-BY 4.0 with copyright retained by the authors, the author (and anyone else) may lawfully re-host the paper anywhere, forever. The work can never be held hostage, even in principle (see open access & licensing).
Continuity commitment
Should the journal ever wind down, we will deposit all published content and its reproducibility packages openly and release the dark-archive trigger. Publications are meant to outlive the publisher.
Visible on every article
Each published article will state its own preservation line: where its deposit lives, its DOI, and its licence, so readers and authors can check the promise rather than take it on faith. As each arrangement above goes live, this page names it with its date.