In order to ensure the preservation, usability and accessibility content for long term availability, there is a need for management policies and actions, called as Digital preservation policy.

Principle of Digital Archiving

• Intellectual Property: Biosciences, Biotechnology Research Asia is committed 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 data remain unaltered and the original data is preserved.

Challenges to the preservation of digital data

• Technology (at the level of hardware, system software, application software, data and file formats, storage media readers and drivers)
• Lack of metadata which results in the failure to locate information, also the inability to render and read the information, due to the lack 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 a 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 the journal due to any reason leads the published research to extinct, digital preservation keeps the research available.

Self-Archiving Rights

All authors hold full copyright and self-archiving rights. Our self-archiving policies are detailed in the RoMEO (ResearchersLinks is a green publisher at RoMEO, which is a database of publishers’ copyright and self-archiving policies).

Additionally, authors are allowed to archive their articles in open access repositories as “pre-prints”.

BBRA is archived in Portico

Biosciences, Biotechnology Research Asia’s journal is archived with PORTICO fortify that they will be secure and available in the near future. By archiving with these organizations, we are ensuring that all our content remains accessible to future scholars around the world.

 

Self-Archiving Policy
Authors are allowed to archive their articles in open access repositories as “pre-prints”.