Digital Preservation Policy

This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archive among participating libraries, allowing these libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes. Likewise, the journal Ciencias Veterinarias y Producción Animal carries out several processes whose purpose is to guarantee the accessibility, through time and technological changes, of the digital documents they manage and publish:

A monitoring of format versions and their respective updates is carried out with the aim of ensuring their continued accessibility.

Document management

In addition, the journal Ciencias Veterinarias y Producción Animal uses the OJS (Open Journal Systems), which is an open source software for the management and maintenance of digital documents compatible with the interoperability protocol OAI-PHM (Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). The DOI (Document Object Identifier) has also been adopted for assigning unique and persistent identifiers to all documents published in the journal.