Repository & Archiving

The policies below have been registered with Sherpa Romeo under the policy No. 6240 (ID 42809). A full record of such policies could be browsed Sherpa Romeo's website.

Repository policy (Self-archiving policy)

As the Copyright holders, Authors may deposit any version of their work in:

Academic social networks
Author's homepages
Institutional repositories
Institutional websites
Non-commercial institutional repositories
Non-commercial repositories
Non-commercial social network
Non-commercial subject repositories
Non-commercial websites
Pre-print repositories
Journal website

There is no embargo period.

Where available, we recommend that full bibliographic information (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages) about the original publication are provided and links are made to the article's DOI.

This policy applies to all versions of the article:

1. Submitted version
2. Accepted version (Author Accepted Manuscript)
3. Published version (Version of Record)

This policy was officially approved on Frebruary 2022, although it has been de facto applied since 2015, with particular regard to the version of record. The policy is retroactive and applies to previous digitized issues of the journal.

Journal's Archiving policy

This journal utilizes the Public Knowledge Project Private LOCKSS Network (PKP-PLN) and internet archive to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries, which are permitted to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

More information concerning LOCKSS could be found here.

The gateway page with the journal's archival manifesto could be found here.