Archiving
Archiving Policy
1. Digital Preservation and Archiving
The Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning (DRArch) ensures the long-term preservation, authenticity, and accessibility of all its published content through multiple trusted digital archiving systems and repositories.
DRArch operates on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) version 3.3.0.16, an open-source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) under the GNU General Public License.
OJS supports the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system, which provides secure and permanent preservation of scholarly content. PKP has developed the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN)—a Private LOCKSS Network (PLN)—to automatically archive OJS journals. As an OJS journal, DRArch participates in the PKP PN program, ensuring that all published content is safely preserved across multiple distributed library nodes worldwide.
2. National Library Archiving
In addition to the PKP PN, DRArch is also digitally archived in the National Library of Türkiye. This national-level preservation ensures that all published materials remain accessible even if the journal’s website or servers become unavailable. It also guarantees compliance with the national digital preservation standards of the Republic of Türkiye.
3. Author and Institutional Self-Archiving
DRArch fully supports the principles of Green Open Access and encourages authors to archive their published works in:
- Institutional repositories,
- Thematic or disciplinary repositories, and
- Personal academic websites (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu, institutional pages).
Authors are permitted to deposit the final published version (Version of Record) of their articles without any embargo period, provided that the official citation and DOI link to the DRArch publication are included.
Example citation: “Published in the Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning (DRArch), e-ISSN: 2757-6329. Available at: https://drarch.org DOI: [insert DOI number].”
4. Indexing and Persistent Identification
DRArch is registered in the Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD) , a service of the ISSN International Centre that identifies and indexes verified open-access scholarly journals.
The journal is also a member of Crossref and assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to all published articles, ensuring persistent citation, discoverability, and interoperability across international indexing systems.
5. Long-Term Access and Redundancy
By integrating PKP PN, national archiving, and Crossref DOI registration, DRArch ensures that every published article remains:
- Permanently accessible to readers worldwide,
- Securely preserved in multiple distributed archives, and
- Globally discoverable via metadata registries and DOI infrastructure.
