Archiving & digital preservation
JOSTA – Journal of Sustainable Technology in Agriculture implements a multi-layered digital preservation strategy to ensure the long-term accessibility, authenticity, and safekeeping of all published content. Our approach complies with best practices recommended by DOAJ, OpenAIRE, and international scholarly communication standards.
1. Internet Archive
The Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) serves as the primary preservation system for JOSTA. All full-text PDF files and their associated metadata are archived to ensure permanent availability, independent of website hosting or publisher infrastructure.
Access preserved JOSTA content:
Internet Archive – JOSTA Preservation
- Permanent archiving of article PDFs and metadata
- Preservation of article landing pages and journal structure
- Independent, third-party redundancy
- Access ensured even if the journal website undergoes changes or becomes unavailable
2. Zenodo (CERN)
JOSTA maintains an official community on Zenodo, managed by CERN and OpenAIRE. Zenodo preserves the article record, metadata, DOI information, and public documentation necessary for long-term scholarly stewardship.
JOSTA Zenodo Community:
Zenodo – JOSTA Community
- Preservation of article metadata and publication record
- Stable DOI management independent of journal hosting
- OpenAIRE-compliant metadata exposure
- Long-term preservation provided by CERN infrastructure
3. GitHub repository
The full journal website is maintained and version-controlled via GitHub. This provides a complete historical record of all article pages, metadata files, and website content, enabling restoration of any previous version if needed.
- Permanent version history for all site files
- Ability to roll back to earlier states of the journal
- Independent redundancy outside hosting and archive networks
4. Publisher-maintained secure backups
PAPAYA Academic Press (Statoberry LLP) maintains additional secure backup layers to provide long-term redundancy and continuity.
- Regular cloud-based encrypted backups
- Local mirrored storage
- Offline archival copies (PDFs + metadata)
- Secure storage of indexing, layout, and publication files
5. Preservation commitment
By combining the Internet Archive (primary PDF and metadata preservation), Zenodo (metadata and DOI preservation), GitHub (versioned website backup), and internal archival layers, JOSTA ensures that all published content will remain permanently accessible regardless of organisational, technical, or infrastructural changes.