Digital Archiving Policy

Digital Archiving Policy

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: Material Science Research India is committed to provide 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 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 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”.

MSRI is archived in Portico

Portico was the first digital preservation service to be independently audited by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and certified as a trusted, reliable digital preservation solution that serves the needs of the library community (following the general metrics found in their Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification). The stated purpose of the CRL audit was to promote understanding of and, where justified, confidence in, digital repositories.