Long Term Preservation

The long term preservation of open access journals is  an extremely important business process which a publisher of academic content should commit to. Lampung Journal of International Law (LaJIL) is attached to an archiving and digital preservation program for the long term.

Long term preservation strategy is understood as a protection against discontinuation of the publisher as a whole, single journals, or single back issues. This can be due to business interruption or failure (bankruptcy, insolvency), some kind of catastrophic failure, technical failure, or natural disaster.

Lampung Journal of International Law (LaJIL) Publication decided to archive all journal papers with PKP-Preservation Network (PKP-PN). A dark archive service provided by Public Knowledge Project to digitally preserve Journals using Open Journal System Software. In short, PKP-PN offers decentralized and distributed preservation, seamless perpetual access, and preservation of the authentic original version of the content.

The PKP PN is a dark archive. End users will not have access to the preserved content until after a “trigger event.” After a trigger event, PKP staff will approve the importing of the preserved content into one or more OJS instances hosted by PKP member institutions. Once loaded into these host OJS instances, the content will be openly accessible.

Preserved content in the PKP PN is only made available to users after a trigger event, at which time the content will be made accessible to the reading public. The PKP PN defines two types of trigger events.

  1. Explicit notification by OJS Journal Manager
  2. Cessation of deposits into the PKP PN (after a period of inactivity)

The PKP PN will employ automated techniques to detect a potential trigger event and contact the journal to confirm their publication status.

For detailed information regarding the PKP Preservation Network please refer to pkp-pn official website at https://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-pn/