Archiving Policy
Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy
The "Researchers Gate Journal for Studies and Research" operates under a strict Open Access policy, meaning that all published research is immediately and freely available to the public and researchers worldwide. To ensure long-term digital preservation and continuous access to published manuscripts—even in the event of technical emergencies—the journal adopts a multi-level archiving policy:
- Global Digital Archiving:
- Crossref System: All published articles are permanently preserved and indexed in the global Crossref database. Each article is assigned a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) using the journal's specific prefix (10.64337), ensuring that research links are persistent and facilitating accurate global citation.
- Google Scholar: All published issues and research papers are automatically crawled, indexed, and archived in Google Scholar.
- National and Institutional Archiving: To ensure sustainable physical and digital preservation, regular copies of the journal's issues are deposited and archived at the "House of Books and Documents" in Baghdad, Iraq, under the official accreditation and deposit number (2837) for the year 2025.
- Author Self-Archiving Policy: The journal strongly supports the authors' right to maximize the visibility and impact of their work. Therefore, authors are permitted and encouraged to self-archive the final published version of their articles (Publisher's Version) in their institutional repositories, on personal academic profiles (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu), or in non-profit public repositories immediately after publication. Authors must explicitly acknowledge the "Researchers Gate Journal for Studies and Research" as the original publisher and provide a direct link to the article using its official DOI.
