Archiving Policy

DISTINCTION: Journal of Communication and Society is committed to maintaining the long-term preservation, integrity, and accessibility of its published scholarly content.

The journal recognizes digital preservation as an essential part of scholarly publishing and seeks to ensure that published content remains identifiable, accessible, and retrievable over time.

1. Preservation Scope and Version of Record

DISTINCTION seeks to preserve the scholarly record associated with its published content, including article files, metadata, issue and volume information, supplementary materials where applicable, and post-publication notices.

The version formally published on the DISTINCTION journal website is considered the journal's Version of Record and is preserved together with the metadata necessary to maintain its scholarly identity and citation history.

2. Metadata, File Integrity, and Sustainable Formats

The journal seeks to preserve both published files and the metadata required to identify, discover, cite, and retrieve scholarly content.

DISTINCTION also seeks to maintain the integrity and stability of published files and to use widely supported digital formats. Where necessary, content may be migrated to newer formats while preserving its intellectual content, bibliographic identity, and publication history.

3. Post-Publication Changes

Corrections, retractions, and other post-publication notices must remain transparent and connected to the original scholarly record.

Published articles will not normally be removed solely because they have been corrected or retracted. The journal seeks to preserve the relationship between the original publication and any subsequent notice.

4. Recovery, Continuity, and Platform Migration

DISTINCTION seeks to maintain mechanisms that support the recovery and continued accessibility of published content in the event of technical failure, data loss, platform disruption, or changes in publishing infrastructure.

If the journal migrates to a different journal-management system, server, hosting provider, or publishing platform, reasonable efforts will be made to preserve published files, metadata, publication history, persistent identifiers where applicable, and links between articles and related post-publication notices.

5. Preservation Review

The journal may periodically review its preservation practices to ensure that they remain appropriate to technological developments, publishing infrastructure, and recognized digital preservation practices.