Digital preservation

Digital Preservation Policy

The Brazilian Journal of Health Auditing (JBAS) adopts policies and mechanisms for digital preservation to ensure continuous access, integrity, and permanent availability of all its published content.

The journal actively participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), a distributed digital preservation service maintained by the Public Knowledge Project, the organization responsible for developing the OJS system.

Through PKP PN, all published content is automatically deposited into an archiving network based on LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) technology, which creates and maintains multiple secure copies of articles across different geographic locations.

This system ensures:

  • long-term preservation of content;

  • redundancy and protection against data loss;

  • content recovery in case of journal server failure;

  • continuous access even in cases of journal discontinuation.

Content is automatically deposited after publication in OJS, ensuring permanent preservation independent of local infrastructure.

As complementary best practices, the journal also:

  • assigns a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to all articles;

  • adopts widely recognized open file formats (PDF);

  • maintains structured metadata compatible with the OAI-PMH protocol;

  • performs periodic system backups as an additional security measure.

More information about the PKP Preservation Network is available at: https://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-pn/