Policies governing how journals on the Scholarly Common platform approach indexing, discoverability, and long-term digital preservation.
Scholarly Common encourages journals to maintain transparent editorial practices and publishing standards that support evaluation by recognized indexing and abstracting services.
Indexing decisions are made independently by the respective databases according to their own evaluation criteria. Scholarly Common does not guarantee indexing in any database, but provides journals with the guidance and support needed to meet indexing requirements.
Important: Inclusion in indexing databases is determined independently by the respective indexing services according to their evaluation criteria. Scholarly Common supports journals in building the quality needed for evaluation.
To ensure long-term accessibility and preservation of scholarly publications, journals hosted on Scholarly Common are encouraged to adopt reliable digital archiving practices.
Archiving may involve institutional repositories, library archiving systems, and other digital preservation initiatives that support long-term access to published research.
The goal of digital archiving is to ensure that published scholarly work remains permanently accessible, even in the event of technical changes to the publishing platform or organizational transitions.
Scholarly publications represent a permanent contribution to the academic record. Digital archiving ensures that this record is preserved for future generations of researchers, regardless of technological or organizational changes. Reliable archiving is a mark of a trustworthy, responsible publisher.