Digital Archiving & Preservation Policy

The International Interdisciplinary Scientific Journal “Expert” ensures the long-term digital preservation and accessibility of its published content. The journal recognizes long-term digital preservation as a critical component of maintaining the integrity and continuity of the scholarly record.
The journal participates in independent third-party archiving through the Internet Archive, an open digital library providing long-term preservation of scholarly materials.
Published articles and journal metadata are deposited and made publicly accessible via the Internet Archive to support long-term preservation and continued availability of the scholarly record in the event of technical failure, website disruption, or other unforeseen circumstances.

Public Archival Records

Journal archival records deposited in the Internet Archive are publicly accessible through the journal’s Internet Archive archive.
The archive contains deposited full-text articles and related metadata of the journal.
Digital preservation copies stored within the Internet Archive operate independently of the journal’s primary hosting infrastructure, ensuring that published materials remain accessible even if the journal website becomes temporarily or permanently unavailable.

Additional Web Archiving

The journal website is also periodically captured by the Internet Archive through its Wayback Machine, which preserves historical snapshots of publicly accessible web pages.
These archived snapshots provide an additional layer of redundancy by preserving the public versions of article webpages and ensuring continued access to previously published content in case of website disruption or modification.
Archived materials remain accessible through independent archival infrastructure regardless of the operational status of the journal website.

Preservation Objectives

This archiving practice supports:

• permanent open access to published content
• independent third-party preservation
• long-term digital sustainability of the scholarly record
• redundancy through independent web archiving systems

The publisher is committed to maintaining digital preservation practices consistent with internationally recognized standards for open-access scholarly publishing.

Complementary Indexing and Discovery

The digital preservation infrastructure described above operates alongside the journal’s indexing and abstracting services. While indexing databases facilitate the discoverability and citation tracking of published research, independent archival systems ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of the scholarly record. Information about the journal’s current indexing and abstracting services is provided in the dedicated Indexing & Abstracting section of the journal website.