Archiving & Digital Preservation

Publishing Infrastructure

Horizon of Public Health Sciences (HoPHS) is committed to maintaining durable access to its scholarly record through responsible management of published content, bibliographic metadata, persistent identifiers where assigned, and verified digital-preservation arrangements.

OJS Publication Platform

Maintained Article & Issue Metadata

Persistent DOI Where Assigned

Institutional Preservation Infrastructure

Transparency statement: Universitas Muhammadiyah Palu maintains established digital-preservation infrastructure for journals hosted within its scholarly publishing environment. HoPHS is positioned to use the applicable institutional preservation mechanisms as eligible journal content is published. Until HoPHS has published content and deposit status can be verified at title level, the journal distinguishes institutional participation from confirmed preservation of HoPHS content.

Preservation Principle

Long-term access requires more than keeping a webpage online

Digital preservation is distinct from routine website hosting. HoPHS therefore treats preservation as a combination of content continuity, metadata continuity, persistent identification, platform migration, and—when formally activated and verified—independent or distributed preservation outside the live journal website.

Content continuity

Published article files, issue records, supplementary materials, and associated publication records should remain accessible through the journal's institutional publishing infrastructure.

Metadata continuity

Bibliographic and publication metadata should remain associated with the scholarly object during platform upgrades, domain changes, migrations, and other infrastructure transitions.

Persistent identification

Where a DOI or another persistent identifier is assigned, the identifier should continue to identify the same scholarly object even if the underlying journal URL or technical platform changes.

Publication Platform

Institutional OJS infrastructure

HoPHS is published through Open Journal Systems (OJS) on the journal infrastructure of Universitas Muhammadiyah Palu. OJS is used to maintain the journal's publication records, issue structure, article files, bibliographic metadata, and related editorial information.

Important distinction: operation of OJS itself is not presented by HoPHS as proof of independent long-term digital preservation. External preservation services are identified separately only after their status has been verified.

Institutional Preservation Infrastructure

Preservation infrastructure is established at institutional level

Universitas Muhammadiyah Palu maintains digital-preservation arrangements for journals hosted within its scholarly publishing infrastructure. HoPHS will use the applicable institutional preservation mechanisms as eligible scholarly content is published and enters the relevant preservation workflow.

Current HoPHS status: the institutional preservation infrastructure is available, but HoPHS has not yet published an issue. Accordingly, the statements below describe institutional configuration and participation rather than claiming that HoPHS article content has already been deposited or preserved.

PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) Institutional OJS preservation infrastructure is configured/available for eligible journal content.

Configured / Available

LOCKSS Institutional participation/infrastructure is available where applicable to HoPHS content.

Institutional Participation

CLOCKSS Institutional participation/infrastructure is available where applicable to HoPHS content.

Institutional Participation

After HoPHS publishes its first eligible content, the editorial office should verify actual deposit or preservation status for the journal title. Once confirmed, this page may be updated from configured / institutional participation to deposited / preserved for the applicable service.

Persistent Identifiers

DOI persistence where a DOI is assigned

Where HoPHS assigns and registers a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to a published article, the DOI is treated as the persistent identifier of that scholarly object. A change in website address, server path, or publishing platform should not result in assignment of a replacement DOI merely because the article's location has changed.

Stable identifier

The registered DOI should continue to identify the same published object over time. Bibliographic citations should use the DOI rather than depending solely on a changeable website path.

Updated resolution target

If the article landing page moves, HoPHS will seek to update the DOI's destination and relevant registered metadata through the journal's DOI registration arrangement, while preserving the original DOI.

This section describes the journal's DOI-maintenance policy and does not by itself assert that a DOI has already been registered for every HoPHS item. DOI status should be verified at article level.

Metadata Preservation

Preservation includes the information needed to identify and interpret an article

HoPHS maintains bibliographic and publication metadata within its OJS publication record. During platform maintenance or migration, the journal's objective is to retain the association between published files and their descriptive, administrative, and rights-related metadata.

Article title Author names Affiliations Abstract Keywords Volume & issue Publication date Article identifiers DOI where assigned License & copyright

Platform Migration

System upgrades should preserve publication identity

Future OJS upgrades, server migrations, domain changes, or infrastructure restructuring should be managed so that published articles remain identifiable and accessible. HoPHS aims to preserve article files, issue relationships, bibliographic metadata, DOI associations where applicable, publication dates, licensing information, and links between post-publication notices and affected articles.

URL changes should be managed through redirects and persistent-identifier updates where technically available, rather than allowing known links to fail without a replacement access path.

Preservation of the Scholarly Record

Corrections and retractions are part of preservation

Long-term access includes preservation of the publication history, not only the latest article file. Formal corrections, retraction notices, expressions of concern, and other substantive post-publication notices should remain linked to the affected article and retained as part of the journal's scholarly record.

HoPHS avoids silent removal or replacement of substantive publication history. Post-publication changes are governed by the journal's Corrections, Retractions, Expressions of Concern, Complaints & Appeals Policy.

Long-Term Access Strategy

A staged preservation framework

Maintain the institutional publication record

Preserve the relationship between article files, issues, metadata, licensing information, and editorial publication records within the journal platform.

Maintain persistent identifiers where assigned

Keep DOI resolution and associated metadata current when an article location or journal infrastructure changes.

Preserve metadata through upgrades and migration

Treat metadata continuity and version-of-record relationships as preservation requirements during future technical changes.

Verify HoPHS deposits as publication begins

Use the institution's established preservation infrastructure for eligible HoPHS content, then verify title-level deposit or preservation status after publication before describing HoPHS content as preserved by a specific service.

Policy Maintenance

Preservation claims will be updated when infrastructure changes

Digital-preservation arrangements are infrastructure-dependent and may change over time. HoPHS will update this page when title-level deposit or preservation status is confirmed, a preservation arrangement is materially changed or discontinued, DOI arrangements change, or the journal adopts another mechanism affecting long-term access to published content.

Institutional participation may be described transparently before the journal's first issue is published. However, service logos, badges, and wording such as “HoPHS is preserved in…” should only be used after HoPHS title-level eligibility, deposit, or preservation status has been verified for that service.

HoPHS Preservation Principle

Preserve the article, its metadata, its identifier, and its publication history.

HoPHS aims to ensure that scholarly content remains identifiable, interpretable, and accessible through changes in technology and journal infrastructure. Preservation claims are made conservatively and are updated only when the underlying preservation mechanism has been verified.