An author who pours months into a paper needs to believe it will still resolve in fifty years — even if this journal folds. Our answer is not "trust us" but a design in which your paper does not structurally depend on us.
Nothing has been published yet, so no deposit exists today. This page states the arrangement every article will get at publication — written in the future tense on purpose, because we do not claim arrangements before they hold.
The arrangement each article will get
- 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 (PKP PN first, CLOCKSS/Portico later) will be in place before the DOAJ application. 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, our commitment is written into the plan: all published content and its reproducibility packages will be deposited openly and the dark-archive trigger released — publication here is meant to outlive the publisher.
Visible on every article
Preservation is half arrangement, half communication: 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 will name it with its date.