Archiving Policy and Long-Term Open Access Preservation 

© The Editorial Board of Linguistic Studies

The journal Linguistic Studies ensures uninterrupted open access to scholarly publications and guarantees their long-term preservation through a multi-level archiving system:

1. Primary repositories and platforms:

• • University publishing platform (OJS): full texts of articles, metadata, and archived issues are hosted on the specialized publishing system Open Journal Systems (OJS) at: https://jlingst.donnu.edu.ua/index. This platform supports the OAI-PMH standard for metadata harvesting and integration into international scholarly databases.

  • Official journal website: the complete corpus of publications from the past 12 years is available in open access in the archive section at: https://sites.google.com/view/linguisticstudies/.

2. Technical tools and standards:

• • Digital identification: each publication is assigned a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI), ensuring persistent linking regardless of changes to web addresses.

  • National servers: electronic copies of the journal are deposited for preservation in the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine (digital repository of the NBUV).

3. Accessibility guarantees:

• • the journal follows a self-archiving policy, allowing authors to deposit the published version of their article (Publisher’s PDF) in institutional repositories and personal academic profiles (ResearchGate, Academia.edu);

  • in the event of journal discontinuation, access to the content will be preserved through the digital collections of the university library and national electronic archives.

4. International indexing and metadata availability:
The journal’s broad presence in international registries ensures the discoverability of publication information even in the event of technical disruptions to primary servers. The journal is indexed in:

• • ERIH PLUS and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), confirming compliance with high European open access standards;

  • Index Copernicus International since 2012 (with steady growth of the ICV indicator, reaching 75.72 in 2023);

  • Global directories: Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, EZB (Germany), Genamics JournalSeek;

  • Bibliographic systems: Google Scholar, WorldCat, ResearchBib, Polska Bibliografia Naukowa (PBN).

5. Long-term accessibility assurances:

• • each article is identified by a DOI, providing a permanent and stable link to the content;

  • the journal uses the WorldCat Knowledge Base (OCLC) for global discovery and preservation of metadata;

  • the open access policy enables author self-archiving in institutional repositories, creating additional mirrored storage points for long-term data preservation.