Archiving

Student Research in Translational Medicine (SRTM) recognizes the critical importance of preserving scholarly research for the long term. Our archiving policy ensures the perpetual availability and integrity of all published content, safeguarding it against loss, obsolescence, or catastrophic events.

Commitment to Digital Preservation

SRTM is committed to the permanent digital preservation of its content. To achieve this, the journal utilizes a multi-faceted approach to archiving.

Primary Archiving

All published content is archived on the journal's primary hosting platform, maintained by Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, which runs on Open Journal Systems (OJS). Regular, automated backups are performed to safeguard all data. This serves as the primary, accessible version of record.

Third-Party Digital Preservation

To ensure robust and redundant preservation, SRTM partners with dedicated digital archiving services. Content is automatically deposited into:

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe): A decentralized, open-source system that enables libraries to preserve authorized content through distributed archiving.
CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS): A trusted, non-profit, multi-institutional dark archive that provides access to content if the journal ceases publication.
PKP PN (Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network): A free service that automatically preserves content from OJS journals, which provides an additional layer of distributed, ongoing access.

These partnerships ensure that even if SRTM ceases operation, all published articles will remain accessible to the scholarly community. It means that in the unlikely event that SRTM ceases publication, every effort will be made to ensure the digital archive is transferred to a trusted custodian (such as CLOCKSS) to maintain perpetual access for the scholarly community.

Author Self-Archiving

Authors are encouraged to self-archive the final published version of their article (Version of Record) in institutional or subject-based repositories, in accordance with our Repository Policy.

Persistent Identifiers

Every article published in SRTM is assigned a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI). This provides a permanent, resolvable link to the article, ensuring reliable access and citability even if the journal's URL structure changes

For more information on our archiving partners, please visit:
· LOCKSS
· CLOCKSS

For any questions regarding this policy, please contact the editorial office.