English Education: English Journal for Teaching and Learning

p-ISSN: 2338-8781 | e-ISSN: 2579-4043

English Education: English Journal for Teaching and Learning is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of its published scholarly content. The journal recognizes the importance of maintaining permanent access to research articles and other published materials to support scholarly communication, academic integrity, and the advancement of knowledge. To achieve this goal, the journal adopts the following archiving policy.

1. Digital Archiving

English Education: English Journal for Teaching and Learning strives to ensure the long-term preservation of all published articles through appropriate digital archiving practices. These practices may include:

  • PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN): The journal may utilize the Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network, which provides digital preservation services for eligible journals using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.

  • LOCKSS and CLOCKSS: The journal may participate in the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) or CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) initiatives to support the preservation and continued availability of its published content.

  • Institutional Repositories: Published articles may be preserved through institutional repositories and other recognized scholarly archiving platforms, subject to applicable policies and licensing terms.

2. Self-Archiving by Authors

Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit their articles in personal websites, institutional repositories, or appropriate subject-specific repositories, in accordance with the journal's copyright and licensing policies.

The versions that may be archived include:

  • Preprint: The manuscript before peer review.

  • Accepted Manuscript (Postprint): The version accepted for publication after peer review, before the final journal formatting.

  • Published Version (Version of Record): The final published version of the article.

Authors should provide proper acknowledgment of the original publication in English Education: English Journal for Teaching and Learning, including the article title, journal name, volume, issue, page numbers where applicable, publication year, and DOI or article URL when available. Self-archiving is permitted without an embargo, subject to the journal's applicable licensing and copyright terms.

3. Metadata Preservation

English Education: English Journal for Teaching and Learning is committed to maintaining accurate and accessible bibliographic metadata for its published articles. This metadata includes article titles, author names and affiliations, abstracts, keywords, publication details, and DOI information where available.

The journal seeks to ensure that its metadata remains accessible through its journal website, indexing services, and other scholarly discovery platforms to facilitate article discoverability, citation, and long-term academic use.

4. Long-Term Access and Preservation

The journal aims to maintain continued access to its published content through its website and available digital archiving mechanisms. In the event that the journal ceases publication or its website becomes unavailable, the journal will make reasonable efforts to ensure that previously published articles remain accessible through available archives, institutional repositories, or other preservation services in which the content has been deposited.

Through this policy, English Education: English Journal for Teaching and Learning seeks to safeguard the scholarly record and promote the long-term accessibility and dissemination of academic research.