Advances in Nursing & Midwifery is committed to the long-term preservation, accessibility, and integrity of the scholarly content published by the journal.
All published articles and associated scholarly content of Advances in Nursing & Midwifery are digitally archived and maintained to ensure their long-term preservation and continued accessibility.
The journal's website, published articles, and associated editorial and publication records are stored and maintained on secure servers operated and maintained by Shahid Beheshti University.
Appropriate technical and administrative measures are implemented to protect the journal's digital content against unauthorized access, accidental loss, corruption, or other threats to data integrity.
The journal intends to preserve the published scholarly record permanently. Once an article has been formally published, its bibliographic information and the published version of record are retained as part of the journal's permanent scholarly archive.
Published articles are not routinely removed from the journal's website or archival system. In exceptional circumstances, such as a serious ethical or legal issue, an article may be subject to correction, retraction, or other editorial action in accordance with the journal's publication ethics policies.
When an article is corrected or retracted, the original publication record is retained whenever possible, with an appropriate editorial notice clearly indicating the nature of the change.
Manuscripts submitted to the journal, peer-review reports, editorial correspondence, and other records generated during the editorial and publication process may be retained by the journal for administrative, editorial, ethical, and archival purposes.
Access to non-public editorial records is restricted to authorized members of the editorial team and other individuals who require access for legitimate journal-related purposes.
Reviewer identities and confidential peer-review information are protected in accordance with the journal's Double-Blind Peer Review Policy.
Authors are responsible for the secure storage and preservation of the underlying research data supporting their manuscripts.
Where appropriate, authors are encouraged to deposit research data in a suitable recognized data repository and to provide a persistent identifier or data availability statement in the manuscript.
The journal does not routinely host or permanently preserve the complete underlying datasets of published studies unless such data have been specifically submitted to the journal as supplementary material or otherwise agreed upon during the editorial process.
Authors remain responsible for ensuring that shared research data comply with applicable ethical requirements, informed-consent provisions, privacy regulations, and institutional policies.
Supplementary files associated with published articles may be retained and made available through the journal's online platform.
Authors should ensure that supplementary materials do not contain confidential, personally identifiable, or otherwise sensitive information that should not be publicly disclosed.
The journal takes reasonable technical and organizational measures to maintain the security and integrity of its digital records.
Access to editorial databases, unpublished manuscripts, peer-review materials, and other non-public information is limited to authorized personnel.
While the journal takes reasonable measures to prevent data loss, no digital storage system can guarantee absolute protection against hardware failure, cybersecurity incidents, or other unforeseen events.
The journal is committed to maintaining the continuity of the scholarly record. In the event of changes to the journal's website, editorial management system, hosting arrangements, or institutional infrastructure, reasonable measures will be taken to preserve previously published content and associated bibliographic records.
The journal will make reasonable efforts to ensure that published articles remain accessible through the journal's official platform and that changes to the publication record are appropriately documented.
The digital content and records of Advances in Nursing & Midwifery are hosted and maintained on servers belonging to or operated under the infrastructure of Shahid Beheshti University.
The university's infrastructure provides the institutional environment in which the journal's website, digital publications, and related records are stored and maintained.
This Archiving and Data Retention Policy may be reviewed and updated periodically to reflect changes in technological infrastructure, institutional requirements, applicable regulations, and recognized standards of scholarly publishing.
Any significant changes to this policy will be reflected on the journal's website.