Archiving Policy

Digital Preservation

Digital Social Sciences is dedicated to ensuring the enduring availability and discoverability of all published scholarly works. The journal maintains unrestricted access to its published content through its online platform and implements preservation measures designed to safeguard the integrity and accessibility of the scholarly record over time.

To support long-term usability, articles are published in widely accepted and accessible file formats, including PDF. Bibliographic and descriptive metadata are structured in accordance with recognized interoperability standards, including the Dublin Core framework, facilitating efficient indexing, harvesting, and retrieval across academic databases and repository systems.

The journal employs established digital archiving and preservation practices to protect published materials from data loss and technological obsolescence. In addition, Digital Social Sciences utilizes Zenodo as a trusted preservation repository to support permanent archiving, content recovery, and sustained access to scholarly outputs where appropriate. These measures help ensure that journal content remains available to researchers, institutions, and the wider scholarly community for future generations.

Self-Archiving and Repository Deposit Policy

Digital Social Sciences supports the principles of open scholarship and encourages authors to maximize the dissemination and impact of their research through responsible self-archiving. Authors are permitted to deposit and share various versions of their manuscripts, including preprints, accepted author manuscripts, and the final published version.

Such materials may be archived in institutional repositories, university archives, personal websites, disciplinary repositories, and other non-commercial scholarly platforms without embargo. Authors are encouraged to provide a complete citation to the published article and include the article's DOI or permanent link whenever available.

By facilitating repository deposit and self-archiving, the journal seeks to enhance research visibility, increase accessibility, and assist authors in meeting the requirements of funding agencies, research organizations, and institutional open-access policies.