Digital Archiving Policy

In order to make certain the preservation, usability and accessibility of content for long-term availability, there may be a need for management policies and actions, referred to as Digital Archiving Policy.

Principle of Digital Archiving

Intellectual Property: Biomedical and pharmacology journal is dedicated to providing access to digital materials while respecting and upholding the intellectual property rights of authors and obtaining prior consent.
Access: Digital preservation activities are performed with the primary goal of long-term access to digital collections.
Authenticity: It ensures that information remains unaltered and the authentic data is preserved.
Challenges to the Preservation of Digital Information

Technology (at the extent of hardware, system software, application software, information and file formats, storage media readers and drivers)
Lack of metadata which results in the failure to locate information, additionally the lack of ability to render and examine the information, because of the shortage of contextual information.
The media used to store digital records are usually unstable and deteriorate within a few years or decades at most, rendering the digital records inaccessible.
Incompatible File formats, especially for older software.
Digital records may be lost in the event of natural calamities such as fire, flood, earthquake, equipment failure, or virus attack that disables stored data and systems.
The digital records may be well protected, but so poorly identified and described that potential users cannot find them.
Discontinuation of journals due to any reason leads the published research to extinct, digital preservation keeps the research available.
Self-Archiving Rights

All authors can preserve complete copyright and self-archiving rights.