Digital Preservation and Archiving Policy

Brieflands STM Publisher is committed to the permanent preservation, accessibility, integrity, and discoverability of its published scholarly content.

Brieflands maintains multiple copies of the Version of Record, article metadata, supplementary materials, and related publication files in internal and independent preservation systems to reduce the risk of permanent content loss.

Content and Storage Formats

Published articles are stored as structured full-text XML based on the NLM Journal Publishing DTD Version 3.0, together with their PDF files, metadata, figures, supplementary materials, and other associated digital files.

Structured XML preserves the organization, metadata, references, licensing information, and full text of each article and supports conversion to current and future publishing formats.

Copies of published content are maintained in the Brieflands Repository and in additional controlled storage systems with redundant backup arrangements.

Brieflands Repository

The Brieflands Repository provides an additional access and storage layer for published content. It includes journal collections, article records, bibliographic metadata, and available full-text files.

Repository copies supplement the primary journal website and independent preservation services. They do not replace the Version of Record published on the journal website.

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Full-Text XML and Bulk Access

Full-text XML may be made available for bulk or FTP download as compressed ZIP archives. These files support indexing, systematic review tools, content analysis, text and data mining, and other lawful research uses.

All Brieflands articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). No separate permission or license fee is required for downloading, mining, analyzing, reproducing, or redistributing content covered by this license, provided that the Author(s) and original source are properly credited, a link to the license is included, and any changes are indicated.

Third-party material expressly excluded from an article’s CC BY 4.0 license remains subject to the terms stated in its relevant credit line.

Independent Digital Preservation

Brieflands uses independent preservation services in addition to its internal repository and backup systems.

Portico

Brieflands participates in Portico, an independent digital preservation service operated by ITHAKA. Participating Brieflands journal titles and their preservation status are listed in the official Portico holdings record.

Portico preserves deposited journal content independently of the Brieflands website. When applicable under Portico’s preservation arrangements, preserved content may remain accessible following a qualifying loss of access or discontinuation event.

PubMed Central

Journals accepted for participation in PubMed Central (PMC) deposit their eligible full-text articles and associated files in the PMC archive.

PMC participation applies only to journals formally accepted by PMC. Journals that are not included in PMC remain preserved through the Brieflands Repository, Portico where listed, and Brieflands’ controlled backup systems.

Persistent Identification and Metadata

Brieflands assigns a unique DOI to each Version of Record and registers the associated article metadata with Crossref. The DOI provides a persistent link to the article and supports long-term identification, citation, indexing, and discovery.

Article metadata may also be distributed to repositories, libraries, indexing services, preservation services, and scholarly discovery platforms.

Version Control and Scholarly Record

The Version of Record remains permanently identifiable through its DOI. Post-publication changes are managed through formal notices, including corrections, retractions, removals, and expressions of concern, as appropriate.

Formal notices are linked to the original article to preserve the transparency, integrity, and history of the scholarly record. Except in exceptional circumstances requiring legal or ethical removal, the article record and related notices remain permanently accessible.

Continuity of Access

If a journal is transferred, discontinued, or no longer published by Brieflands, its archived content and bibliographic records will remain preserved through the applicable repository, preservation, and DOI infrastructure.

These arrangements are intended to ensure that published scholarly content remains discoverable, retrievable, citable, and usable by the global research community over the long term.