Digital preservation policies

The Iberoamerican Environment & Sustainability Journal (RIAS), through digital preservation methods, ensures the intellectual content of electronic archival documents for long periods of time, maintaining their integrity, authenticity, inalterability, originality, reliability and accessibility.

Differences between preservation and backups

It is of utmost importance that authors interested in publishing in the Iberoamerican Environment & Sustainability Magazine (RIAS), know the difference between digital preservation and backup.

Backups are a protection mechanism against unforeseen events such as disk breakage or data loss due to exceptional situations such as blackouts, server disconnection, etc.; it basically protects the information published on the server (digital resources plus catalog information) and the digital resources in the process of being published, in a comprehensive and systematic manner.

For its part, digital preservation is not about backing up server data or daily work material, but about safeguarding the high-quality digital resources that will be needed in the future. The preservation copies usually consist of an integral recording of the material annually or from the year on different media than the work platforms.

In both cases, by means of redundancy algorithms, it is verified that the data is maintained as recorded.

Definition of preservation policies

The Iberoamerican Environment & Sustainability Magazine (RIAS) establishes digital preservation as the responsibility and commitment of all the personnel involved in its editorial management. Its policy to carry it out is governed by:

• The storage of digital resources with great care.
• The use of preservation strategies such as data rejuvenation, migration, technology preservation and digital archeology; with the pertinent evaluations to verify the effectiveness of the same.
• Encapsulation of the preserved information along with descriptive metadata.
• Self-documentation based on the codification of the preserved information, without reference to external documentation.
• Self-sufficiency insofar as it minimizes dependencies on systems, data or documentation.

The Journal uses LOCKSS and CLOCKSS, it also uses different international repositories such as: Google Scholar, LatinRev, WorldCat, Zenodo, etc. The handle allows query extraction (persistent URL, like DOI).