Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy
Ensuring the long-term accessibility and integrity of published content—despite evolving technologies—is a core responsibility of scholarly publishing. Forbes Journal of Medicine, under the institutional framework of Buca Seyfi Demirsoy Training and Research Hospital, is committed to implementing digital preservation practices in accordance with international publishing standards.
Digital Preservation Approach
Digital preservation encompasses the technical and administrative measures required to prevent content from being lost, corrupted, or rendered inaccessible over time. This approach includes:
• Maintaining data integrity,
• Establishing alternative access pathways,
• Ensuring the existence of infrastructure capable of restoring access rapidly in emergency scenarios.
Website and Content Archiving
The online content of Forbes Journal of Medicine—including articles, supplementary files, images, metadata, and web pages—is preserved through redundant storage across multiple secure servers.
• The primary versions of all materials are continuously accessible on the journal’s official website.
• Backups are maintained on independent servers located in different geographic regions.
• Rapid recovery protocols are implemented to restore access within 24–36 hours in case of data loss or system failure.
Indexing and External Repositories
The journal is included in various national and international abstracting and indexing platforms. These databases:
• Increase the visibility and discoverability of articles,
• Serve as independent and sustainable archival points by storing metadata and, in some cases, full texts.
This ensures that the journal’s content is protected through secure external channels beyond the primary publishing infrastructure.
Authors’ Archiving Rights
Aligned with open science principles, Buca Seyfi Demirsoy Training and Research Hospital supports authors’ rights to archive their own work. Authors may deposit the Version of Record of their articles in:
• Personal or institutional academic web pages,
• Institutional open-access repositories,
• Subject-based archives (e.g., PubMed Central, arXiv, or equivalent platforms).
Such deposits must include full bibliographic citation and a link to the original version on the Forbes Journal of Medicine website.
Institutional Commitment
Buca Seyfi Demirsoy Training and Research Hospital is dedicated to ensuring the secure, permanent, and long-term accessibility of all published academic content through a multi-layered, distributed digital preservation infrastructure. This policy supports the preservation of scholarly heritage, the continuity of scientific knowledge, and the strengthening of open-access values.