IJTIMES, published by KG Publication, is committed to the long-term preservation of its published content, ensuring that articles remain accessible to readers in perpetuity, regardless of changes to the journal, the publisher, or the hosting platform. This page describes the preservation arrangements currently in place, the persistent identifier infrastructure, the metadata harvesting endpoints, and the publisher's continuity commitment.
🔒 1. Active Preservation Arrangements
IJTIMES participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), a free, distributed, open-source preservation network operated by the Public Knowledge Project. The PKP PN is the standard preservation mechanism for journals using Open Journal Systems and is recognised by DOAJ as a qualifying long-term preservation arrangement. Content is replicated across multiple geographically distributed node sites operated by partner institutions, ensuring that IJTIMES's published articles remain available even if the journal's primary hosting becomes unavailable.
The PKP PN is listed in the Keepers Registry, the international registry of digital preservation services maintained by the ISSN International Centre, confirming that the journal's content is held in a recognised long-term preservation arrangement.
KG Publication is committed to expanding IJTIMES's preservation footprint over time. The publisher will evaluate participation in additional preservation networks, including CLOCKSS, LOCKSS, and Portico, as the journal's portfolio expands and as eligibility criteria are met.
🔗 2. Persistent Identifiers
Every article published in IJTIMES is assigned a registered Digital Object Identifier (DOI) via Crossref. The DOI provides a permanent, citable link to the article record. Even if the journal's hosting URL changes, the DOI continues to resolve to the canonical article location.
Article metadata — including title, abstract, authors, affiliations, references, and funding information — is deposited with Crossref at the point of publication. Crossref makes this metadata available to the global scholarly infrastructure, including indexing services, repository networks, and reference-linking systems.
📊 3. Metadata Harvesting
IJTIMES exposes its full article metadata through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The OAI-PMH endpoint is at:
This endpoint enables aggregators, indexers, repository networks, and preservation services to harvest the journal's metadata in standard formats, including Dublin Core. Major harvesters that consume this endpoint include the journal's indexing partners and open-access aggregators.
📑 4. Indexing and Registry Deposit
IJTIMES articles and metadata are present in the following indexing and registry services, each of which independently retains journal records as part of its operational infrastructure:
- Crossref — full DOI registry deposit on every article.
- ROAD — the Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources operated by the ISSN International Centre.
- Google Scholar — full-text indexing of every article.
While these are not preservation services in the formal sense, the metadata they retain provides a secondary record of the journal's published output that persists independently of the journal's hosting infrastructure. Full details are on the Indexing and Abstracting page.
🛠 5. Backups and Operational Resilience
KG Publication maintains regular backups of all IJTIMES content, files, and metadata as part of standard hosting operations. Backups support operational resilience against routine technical failures, complementing — but not replacing — the long-term preservation provided by the PKP Preservation Network.
📄 6. Article-Format Preservation
Articles in IJTIMES are published as text-based PDFs, not as scanned images. This means that the article text remains machine-readable, searchable, and accessible to assistive technology, and can be re-rendered or migrated to future document formats without loss of content.
Article metadata is stored in standard, structured formats (JATS-compatible where applicable; Dublin Core for OAI-PMH harvesting) designed for long-term migration and reuse.
⏳ 7. Continuity Commitment
In the event that IJTIMES ceases publication, KG Publication commits to:
- Maintaining the journal website and its archived content for a minimum of five years following the cessation date.
- Ensuring that all published articles remain accessible at their existing DOIs through PKP PN and through any other preservation partners active at the time.
- Notifying indexing services, registries, and the journal's authors and reviewers of the cessation in good time.
- Where appropriate, transferring stewardship of the journal's archived content to a partner institution able to maintain ongoing access.
This continuity commitment applies independently of any change in KG Publication's commercial or operational status.
📅 8. Effective Date and Revision
This Archiving and Preservation statement is effective from 25 April 2026, replacing all earlier versions. IJTIMES reviews this statement annually and updates it as preservation arrangements evolve, particularly as additional preservation services are added to the journal's footprint. Material revisions are dated.
For questions regarding archiving and preservation, please contact the editorial office at editor@ijtimes.com.