Archiving Policy

Help: Journal of Community Service (HJCS) is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, and availability of all scholarly content published in the journal. As an open-access journal, HJCS recognizes the importance of maintaining permanent access to published articles and protecting the scholarly record against potential data loss, technological changes, or interruption of journal operations.

Digital Preservation

HJCS preserves the complete published version of each article, including the article text, metadata, DOI information, and associated scholarly materials, through appropriate digital archiving and preservation mechanisms. Published articles remain permanently accessible through the journal's official website and assigned DOI links.

Repository and External Archiving

Authors are encouraged to preserve and deposit the final published version of their articles in reputable institutional repositories, subject repositories, or other recognized scholarly repositories, subject to applicable copyright and licensing provisions.

HJCS also supports the preservation of its published content through recognized digital preservation and scholarly archiving services whenever available and applicable.

LOCKSS and CLOCKSS

HJCS supports the principle of distributed digital preservation through repository and archiving systems such as LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS). Where technically and institutionally available, journal content may be preserved through these systems to ensure continued access to the scholarly record in the event that the journal website becomes temporarily or permanently unavailable.

Long-Term Accessibility

All published articles are assigned persistent DOI identifiers to facilitate permanent citation and retrieval. HJCS is committed to maintaining the integrity of its published scholarly record and ensuring that previously published articles remain accessible even when website infrastructure, journal management systems, or publication arrangements change.

If HJCS ceases publication or its website becomes unavailable, the journal will make reasonable efforts to ensure that its previously published articles remain accessible through preserved archival copies, DOI services, institutional repositories, or other recognized scholarly preservation platforms.

Preservation of the Scholarly Record

HJCS considers the preservation of published articles to be an essential part of its editorial responsibility. Articles that have been formally published will remain part of the journal's scholarly record. In cases of correction, retraction, or other post-publication changes, the original scholarly record will be preserved in accordance with the journal's Correction and Retraction Policy.

The journal does not routinely remove published articles from its online archive. Any exceptional removal will only be considered in accordance with established ethical, legal, and scholarly publishing principles.

Author's Archiving Rights

Authors retain the right to archive their published work in institutional repositories, academic profiles, and other appropriate scholarly platforms, provided that such dissemination complies with the journal's copyright and licensing terms.

Authors are encouraged to retain a copy of their final published article for personal academic records and institutional preservation.

Commitment to Continuity

HJCS is committed to maintaining a reliable and sustainable digital archive as part of its responsibility to authors, readers, reviewers, researchers, institutions, and the wider academic community.

Through its archiving and preservation practices, HJCS aims to ensure that knowledge generated through community service research, community engagement, empowerment, capacity building, participatory action research, community-based research, service learning, asset-based community development, and related multidisciplinary approaches remains available for future generations of scholars and practitioners.

Archiving Principle: Preserve Knowledge — Protect the Scholarly Record — Ensure Access for the Future.