Nusantara Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences (NJBSS) is committed to the long-term preservation and accessibility of its scholarly content. In accordance with the COPE Guidelines and international best practices, NJBSS has established a comprehensive digital archiving policy to ensure the enduring availability of its published materials, even in the event that the journal or its publisher ceases operations.

Primary Archiving Mechanism: PKP Preservation Network (PKP-PN)

All articles published in NJBSS are preserved through the PKP Preservation Network (PKP-PN). The PKP-PN, integrated within the Open Journal Systems (OJS), serves as a secure, dark archive designed to safeguard content from accidental loss, corruption, or obsolescence. It ensures that all scholarly records remain intact and accessible for future retrieval. The PKP-PN operates in compliance with LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) principles.

Secondary Archiving Channels

In addition to the PKP-PN, NJBSS utilizes other trusted archiving and indexing services to broaden the scope of its digital preservation:

• Garba Rujukan Digital (Garuda): As Indonesia’s national digital reference system, Garuda serves as a vital hub for archiving academic content and metadata sharing across Indonesian institutions.
• ISSN Portal: The journal’s metadata and preservation status are available via the ISSN International Centre, which enhances global discoverability and preservation monitoring.
• Institutional and Subject Repositories: Authors are strongly encouraged to deposit copies of their accepted manuscripts in institutional repositories or subject-specific archives. This aligns with open science principles and further supports redundancy in preservation.
• Internet Archive. Journal of Psychological Perspective (JoPP) maintains continuous article storage in the Internet Archive

Open Access and Redundancy

All articles published in NJBSS are licensed under an open-access Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0), facilitating unrestricted sharing, indexing, and archiving by libraries and repositories worldwide. The use of multiple, geographically distributed archiving systems provides a redundant, fail-safe framework that secures the journal’s scholarly record against potential threats.

Contingency Planning

In the event of journal closure or disruption of operations, NJBSS will activate its contingency archiving plan, which includes the maintenance of its archives through partner institutions, continued access via LOCKSS-compatible repositories, and notification to relevant indexing services to ensure uninterrupted scholarly access.

This digital preservation policy supports NJBSS’s mission to uphold the integrity, transparency, and durability of scholarly publishing while adhering to the COPE Core Practices on archiving and long-term content access.