Archiving and Preservation

The Journal of Practice Theory is committed to open access and autonomy, never charging authors for submissions. This setup ensures that articles published by the journal are made free to access immediately on publication, without any embargo period, and authors have the freedom to deposit any version of their work in a repository of their choice.

To support these principles, we have established the following policies:

1. Journal Archiving

The Journal of Practice Theory uses Open Journal Systems (OJS) to archive each version of record of articles.

OJS is an open-source software application designed for managing and publishing scholarly journals. Developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) in 2001 to improve access to research, OJS is now the most widely used open-source journal publishing platform, with over 30,000 journals globally.

The Journal of Practice Theory archives the following versions of record with OJS:

Submitted Version: Archived in OJS but not publicly accessible.

Accepted Version (Author Accepted Manuscript): Archived in OJS but not publicly accessible.

Published Version (Version of Record): Archived in OJS and publicly available as open access.

There are no embargo periods.

2. Author Self-Archiving

The Journal of Practice Theory permits authors to deposit any version of their work in an institutional or other repository of their choice.

This includes the Published Version (Version of Record), which can be deposited in any repository selected by the author (e.g., Google Scholar, Academia.edu, ResearchGate). Authors can download their published work directly from the journal website for this purpose. However, no modifications, including editing, reformatting, or repaginating the article, are permitted.

3. Preservation

The Journal of Practice Theory ensures the preservation of published material through the Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network (PKP PN), which supports digital preservation for journals hosted by Open Journal Systems (OJS). The PKP PN uses the LOCKSS Program, which provides decentralized and distributed preservation for long-term access.

The PKP PN operates as a dark archive, meaning that in the event of a "trigger event" (e.g., the discontinuation of the journal), PKP staff will transfer the preserved content into one or more OJS instances hosted by PKP member institutions. Once this content is loaded into these host OJS instances, it will become publicly accessible, ensuring that articles remain available, identifiable, and searchable.

4. Persistent Identification

The Journal of Practice Theory uses persistent article identifiers to ensure that articles remain discoverable even if URLs change. The most common type of persistent identifier (PID) is the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). We assign DOIs to all material published by the journal.

Additionally, the Journal of Practice Theory supports the inclusion of ORCID iDs in article metadata, allowing each author to include their ORCID iD starting with manuscript submission.