Digital preservation policy

Digital preservation can be seen as a set of processes and activities that ensure that information that now exists in digital formats is backed up and distributed to ensure continued long-term access.

The Revista Latina de Comunicación Social is committed to the long-term preservation, restoration and recovery of its content and has therefore established a preservation policy for its digital archives that includes the following measures:

• Backups

• Conversion of formats to more secure ones

• Regular checks of file integrity to prevent file corruption

• Monitoring of the technological environment to anticipate possible migrations of obsolete formats or software.

The preservation policy includes assigning a DOI to each article

In this sense, our website is developed under Open Journal Systems (OJS) which is an open source software developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) that has the Portico or CLOCKSS service, through which the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) works to digitally preserve OJS journals through the LOCKSS programme in order to create permanent journal archives, aimed at preserving the original contents and restoring them if necessary, as well as making it possible for these archives to be distributed among libraries and digital repositories.