Archiving and Preservation Policy

The ARC Journal of AI in Clinical Research, published under ARC Publishing, is dedicated to ensuring the long-term preservation, integrity, and continuous accessibility of all published scholarly content.

To fulfill this commitment, the journal utilizes the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), a distributed digital preservation service developed by the Public Knowledge Project for journals operating on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. Through the PKP Preservation Network, all published articles and associated metadata are securely archived to guarantee permanent availability and long-term digital preservation.

The PKP PN stores content across multiple independent and geographically distributed preservation nodes. This distributed archiving model protects the journal’s scholarly record against risks such as data loss, technical malfunctions, cyber threats, server failures, platform migration issues, or potential discontinuation of the journal website.

As soon as an article is issued in ARC it becomes part of the academic record. To support this permanence:

• Content published is saved in safe servers that are backed on a regular basis.
• Electronic versions are stored so that the articles would be retrieved several years later.
• Articles have metadata, abstracts and full text which are maintained to avert discoverability and citation.

It implies that readership, researchers and clinicians will still be able to access ARC contents long after it was published.

ARC is engaged in trustworthy digital archiving systems that are meant to archive academic content. Journals, libraries, and research institutions have extensively used these systems to protect the loss, corruption of content or its inaccessibility over time.

Through the well-established archiving mediums, we can be certain that the published work by ARC will be:

• Safe — Insured against unintentional or technical loss.
• Stable — Can always be relied upon and referred to.
• Discoverable — indexed and stored in systems accessed by researchers everywhere in the world.

The research should not fade away the time it is published. Long-term access supports:

• Continuing research and referencing.
• Learning and education.
• Evidence-based practice and policy development.
• Clinical decision-making reference handbook and future research.

Conserving published work would mean that ARC would remain in the business of providing knowledge to be utilized, reviewed and developed over time.

By implementing a robust digital preservation strategy, the ARC Journal of AI in Clinical Research upholds internationally recognized best practices in scholarly publishing, ensuring research transparency, reliability, and permanent access to published scientific knowledge.