Archiving Policy and Long-Term Open Access Preservation

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 (the archive covers issues published since 2016).
• Official journal website: the complete corpus of publications from the past 20 years is available in open access in the archive section at (the archive includes all issues published since 2006): https://sites.google.com/view/linguisticstudies/.

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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).

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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, as well as all scientometric databases in which the journal is indexed.

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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).

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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 allows authors to self-archive their works in institutional repositories, thereby creating additional data storage sources.