Archiving Policy

The archiving policy of the Indus Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences (IJAPS) is designed to ensure the long-term preservation, discoverability, and responsible sharing of its published research. It is based on the following core principles:

• Open Access: All articles published in the journal are made freely available online immediately upon publication. This ensures that the research is accessible to everyone, regardless of their financial or institutional resources.

• Permanence ("Locks"): The journal is committed to the permanent preservation of its scholarly record. To prevent digital loss, articles are securely archived in multiple trusted repositories, including PubMed Central, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and institutional repositories. This "locked-in" preservation guarantees that the research will remain available for future generations, even if the journal ceases publication.

• Defined Access and Use ("Clocks"): The journal operates on a defined timeline for publication and access. While articles are available immediately upon publication, the terms of their long-term use and sharing are governed by a specific, time-invariant license. Authors and readers can rely on these terms remaining consistent over time.

• Transparency: The journal's archiving policy is clearly stated on its website. This allows authors and readers to know where the articles are archived and under what terms they can be used.

The following are the specific details of the archiving policy of the IJAPS:

• License: Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This license ensures that while the content is freely available, its use is governed by clear rules:

  • Attribution: Anyone is free to copy, distribute, or adapt the articles, as long as they give appropriate credit to the authors and the journal.

  • NonCommercial (NC): The material cannot be used for commercial purposes.

  • ShareAlike (SA): If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

• Archiving ("Locks"): To ensure permanence, articles are archived in PubMed Central, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and other participating institutional and national repositories. These are some of the most prestigious and reliable open access repositories in the world, providing a secure and permanent home for the research.

The archiving policy of the IJAPS is designed to ensure that the research published in the journal is accessible, permanently preserved ("locked in"), and shared under a consistent and responsible framework ("clocks"). This is in line with the journal's commitment to promoting open access to research while protecting the future rights of authors and the integrity of the scholarly record.