Digital Preservation Policy

General Principles

Genius-Pro Science and Society (e-ISSN: 3103-1358) maintains a strong commitment to the long-term preservation, integrity, authenticity, accessibility, retrievability, and permanent availability of all published scientific content.

The journal implements technical, organizational, and administrative measures designed to protect the scientific record and ensure continuous access to its publications, even in the event of technological failures, security incidents, system migrations, infrastructure changes, or technological upgrades.

Digital preservation constitutes an essential component of the journal’s editorial mission and its commitment to the permanent dissemination of scientific knowledge.

1. Backups and Information Security

The journal performs regular backups of:

  • Editorial databases.
  • Manuscripts and working files.
  • Published articles.
  • Editorial metadata.
  • Website content.
  • Editorial management systems.

Backup procedures form part of the institution’s information security and business continuity strategy, with the purpose of minimizing the risk of data loss and facilitating content recovery in the event of technical incidents or unforeseen contingencies.

Access to preservation and backup systems is restricted to authorized personnel and protected through appropriate information security mechanisms.

2. Technological Sustainability and System Migration

Genius-Pro Science and Society maintains up-to-date platforms, applications, and technologies used for editorial management, publication, storage, and dissemination of scientific content.

To prevent risks associated with technological obsolescence, the journal may implement:

  • Software updates.
  • Platform migrations.
  • Metadata conversion and normalization.
  • Adaptation of digital formats.
  • Modernization of technological infrastructure.

When technological migration processes are required, the journal shall adopt the necessary measures to preserve:

  • Content integrity.
  • Metadata accuracy.
  • Persistent identifiers.
  • Editorial records.
  • Continuity of citations and permanent links.

3. Persistent Identification and Metadata Preservation

The journal maintains comprehensive metadata records in order to ensure:

  • Content identification.
  • Information retrieval.
  • Interoperability among systems.
  • Publication traceability.
  • Long-term preservation.

All published articles receive a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which provides internationally recognized persistent identification, facilitating location, retrieval, citation, and permanent access.

The journal also preserves the bibliographic, administrative, and preservation metadata associated with each scientific publication.

4. Preservation Formats and Long-Term Access

Published content is stored and distributed in widely accepted, interoperable digital formats suitable for long-term preservation strategies.

Depending on the available editorial infrastructure, articles may be published in formats such as:

  • PDF.
  • HTML.
  • XML (when applicable).
  • Other structured formats compatible with modern scholarly communication.

The journal may migrate content to new formats whenever necessary to maintain accessibility and prevent technological obsolescence.

5. Digital Preservation Networks and Systems

To strengthen the permanent preservation of published content and ensure information redundancy, Genius-Pro Science and Society participates in or may progressively join specialized academic digital preservation initiatives and systems, including:

  • PKP Preservation Network.
  • LOCKSS.
  • CLOCKSS, when applicable.
  • Institutional preservation repositories.
  • Certified digital archiving services.
  • Other reliable preservation infrastructures adopted by the journal.

These systems enable the creation of distributed and redundant copies of scientific content, promoting its recovery and permanent availability in the event of technological contingencies.

6. Complementary Preservation Strategies

The journal applies additional measures aimed at ensuring the sustainability and permanence of published digital objects, including:

  • Preservation of original files submitted by authors.
  • Preservation of final published versions.
  • Maintenance of editorial decision records.
  • Preservation of associated metadata.
  • Periodic monitoring of digital file integrity.
  • Format migration when necessary.
  • Disaster recovery procedures.
  • Business continuity plans.

These actions contribute to the protection and permanence of the digital scientific heritage published by the journal.

7. Interoperability and Metadata Harvesting

Genius-Pro Science and Society implements international interoperability standards that facilitate metadata exchange, indexing, information retrieval, and dissemination of scientific content.

The journal incorporates the Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), enabling the automatic harvesting of metadata by:

  • Institutional repositories.
  • Scientific information systems.
  • Bibliographic databases.
  • Academic discovery services.
  • Scientific indexing and aggregation services.

Technical Specifications

Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0
Metadata Schema: Dublin Core
OAI-PMH Base URL:

OAI-PMH Endpoint – Genius-Pro Science and Society

The adoption of these standards strengthens the visibility, interoperability, accessibility, and international dissemination of the journal’s published content.

8. Commitment to Long-Term Preservation

Genius-Pro Science and Society recognizes digital preservation as a fundamental responsibility of contemporary scholarly communication.

Accordingly, the journal continuously adopts and updates its preservation strategies to ensure that all published content remains:

  • Accessible.
  • Retrievable.
  • Identifiable.
  • Citable.
  • Interoperable.
  • Usable in the long term.

The journal seeks to maintain the integrity of the scientific record and ensure that generated knowledge remains available for future generations of researchers, professionals, institutions, and decision-makers.

Final Statement

Genius-Pro Science and Society reaffirms its commitment to the permanent preservation of scientific knowledge through the implementation of persistent identifiers, preservation metadata, interoperability protocols, distributed digital archiving systems, and technological sustainability strategies.

The journal adopts international best practices in digital preservation to ensure the ongoing availability, authenticity, integrity, and accessibility of the scientific record, thereby contributing to the strengthening of global scholarly communication and long-term access to research results.