Digital Archiving Policy
The Journal of Excellence in Business Administration (JEBA), published by SMARCONS Publisher, is committed to the long-term preservation and accessibility of its published scholarly content. The journal’s archiving arrangements support continued access in the event of website failure, technical disruption, platform migration, or discontinuation of the journal or publisher.
Internet Archive
Copies of JEBA’s published content are available in the Internet Archive, providing an additional archive independent of the journal’s primary website.
JEBA is committed to maintaining ongoing deposits of published content and reviewing the completeness and accessibility of its archived copies. Coverage is limited to material successfully archived; the journal does not assume that every article or issue has been preserved without checking the corresponding archived files.
PKP Preservation Network - Implementation in Progress
JEBA uses Open Journal Systems (OJS) and is working to establish preservation through the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN).
Implementation is currently in progress. Successful preservation of JEBA’s content through PKP PN has not yet been confirmed. The journal will monitor implementation and deposit status, address technical problems, and update this policy once successful preservation is verified.
Until that verification is complete, JEBA does not represent PKP PN as an operational preservation arrangement for its content. Existing Internet Archive copies provide an independent archive of the material deposited there.
Article Files and Metadata
JEBA’s archiving activities cover published article files, including PDFs, and associated bibliographic metadata where supported by the archive service.
Relevant metadata includes article titles, author names and affiliations, abstracts, keywords, publication dates, volume and issue information, licensing terms, and DOIs where assigned.
The journal will take reasonable steps to preserve the scholarly record, including corrections, retractions and other publication notices, and maintain their links to the relevant articles.
Monitoring and Responsibility
The editorial office is responsible for reviewing archive coverage, checking the accessibility of archived files, monitoring PKP PN implementation, and coordinating the resolution of technical problems.
Preservation statements will reflect verified service status and coverage. Planned services, incomplete deposits and implementation activities will not be described as completed preservation.
Policy Review and Contact
This policy is publicly available on the journal website and will be reviewed periodically. Material changes to archiving services, preservation status or coverage will be reflected in updated policy wording.
For questions about archiving and preservation, contact jeba@smarcons.com.
Digital Object Identifier Policy
JEBA uses Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) registered through Crossref to support persistent identification, citation and linking of published articles.
DOI Display and Linking
For articles with registered DOIs, the DOI is included in the article metadata, article landing page and published PDF. DOI links are displayed in HTTPS format and resolve to the corresponding article landing page.
The landing page provides bibliographic information, licensing information and access to the published full text.
Metadata Maintenance
JEBA is responsible for maintaining its Crossref records and updating DOI destination URLs when article locations change. Relevant corrections, retractions and publication-status changes will be reflected in the associated records.
A DOI remains associated with the scholarly item for which it was registered. Changes to an article’s location do not require a replacement DOI.
Relationship to Preservation
DOIs support persistent identification and linking. They do not, by themselves, preserve article files. JEBA’s archiving arrangements are described separately in its Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy.
For questions about DOI registration or metadata, contact jeba@smarcons.com.
Author Self-Archiving Policy
JEBA permits authors to deposit and share their manuscripts without embargo, self-archiving fees or prior permission from the journal or publisher.
Permitted Versions
Authors may deposit the following versions immediately upon their availability:
- Submitted manuscript / preprint: the manuscript version before peer review.
- Author Accepted Manuscript: the version incorporating revisions accepted following peer review, before final typesetting and production.
- Version of Record: the final published article.
Permitted Locations
Authors may deposit these versions in institutional repositories, subject repositories, funder-designated repositories, personal or institutional websites, or other lawful scholarly platforms of their choice, subject to the receiving platform’s requirements.
Academic networking platforms may also be used for dissemination. They do not replace the journal’s independent archiving arrangements.
Copyright and Licensing
Authors retain copyright in their published work. Published articles are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
This license permits sharing and adaptation, including commercial reuse, provided that appropriate credit is given, a link to the license is supplied, and changes are indicated.
Third-party material expressly excluded from the article’s Creative Commons license remains subject to its stated rights and permissions.
Identification and Citation
Deposited manuscripts should clearly identify their version. When depositing the Version of Record, authors should include the complete journal citation and DOI, where assigned, or the permanent article URL.
Once an article is published, authors are encouraged to update repository records for earlier versions with a citation and link to the Version of Record.
Author Reuse
Authors may reuse their work in theses, dissertations, books, teaching materials, presentations and other scholarly outputs, subject to appropriate attribution, applicable publication-ethics requirements and any restrictions applying to third-party material.
JEBA imposes no embargo or additional permission requirement on depositing the permitted manuscript versions.
For questions about author self-archiving, contact jeba@smarcons.com.
