Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy

CIMEGS-SEJ (Socio-Economic Journal) is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, integrity, and accessibility of all published content. The journal employs multiple strategies and partnerships to safeguard its digital assets and support continuous scholarly access.

1. PKP Preservation Network (PN)

The journal participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), which offers free, long-term digital preservation for journals hosted on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.

2. LOCKSS and CLOCKSS (Planned)

CIMEGS-SEJ is preparing integration with third-party preservation systems such as LOCKSS and CLOCKSS to ensure content redundancy, authenticity, and continuity of access.

3. Author Self-Archiving

Authors are encouraged to archive the published version of their articles in institutional repositories, personal websites, or academic networks such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu. This is fully permitted under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

4. Indexing and Discoverability

All published articles are indexed through academic search engines and repositories such as Google Scholar, ensuring long-term discoverability and citation tracking.

5. Contact

For inquiries related to digital preservation and archiving, please contact the editorial team at: sej.journal@cimeg.ca