Journal Archiving Policy

Senarai: Journal of Islamic Heritage and Civilization is fully committed to ensuring the long-term availability, accessibility, and digital preservation of all published scholarly content. To safeguard academic integrity and guarantee uninterrupted public access, the journal implements a focused and sustainable archiving strategy utilizing two primary preservation systems: PKP Preservation Network (PKP-PN) and Internet Archive (Archive.org). These systems are actively integrated into the journal’s publication workflow and serve as the official preservation mechanisms of the journal.

1. PKP Preservation Network (PKP-PN)

This journal is formally enrolled in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP-PN), a distributed digital preservation service developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) specifically for Open Journal Systems (OJS) journals. PKP-PN provides decentralized, dark-archive preservation to ensure permanent access in the event of catastrophic server failure, platform discontinuation, or data loss.

All published articles are automatically deposited into the PKP-PN system upon publication. The network maintains multiple geographically distributed copies, ensuring redundancy, integrity verification, and long-term sustainability of scholarly records.

2. Internet Archive (Archive.org)

In addition to PKP-PN, the journal maintains archival preservation through Internet Archive (Archive.org), a globally recognized digital preservation initiative dedicated to long-term web and scholarly content storage. All published issues and articles are systematically archived to ensure independent third-party preservation and public retrievability.

Archive.org functions as an open-access digital repository that captures and preserves journal content in stable formats, providing an additional layer of redundancy beyond the publisher’s server environment.

3. Self-Archiving by Author

The journal fully supports and encourages self-archiving by authors as part of its Open Access commitment. Authors are permitted to deposit and disseminate the published Version of Record (VoR) in institutional repositories, university digital libraries, personal academic websites, and recognized scholarly networking platforms.

No embargo period applies. Authors may archive and distribute their published articles immediately upon publication without restriction, provided that proper acknowledgment of the journal as the original source is clearly stated and complete citation details, including DOI (if available), are included.

All published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This license permits users to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material), provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author and source, the material is not used for commercial purposes, and any derivative works are distributed under the same license terms.

Authors and third parties must not alter the integrity of the published Version of Record when redistributing the work. This licensing framework ensures legal clarity, promotes responsible knowledge dissemination, and supports sustainable open scholarly communication while protecting authors’ moral and intellectual rights.