Archiving Policy

Youth in Central and Eastern Europe is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, integrity and accessibility of its published scholarly content. The Editorial Office implements organizational and technical measures to ensure the secure storage, identification and archiving of publications in accordance with internationally recognized standards of scholarly communication.

This Archiving Policy defines the principles governing the long-term preservation of published articles, the protection of the scholarly record and the continuous accessibility of research outputs.

1. Purpose of the Archiving Policy

The purpose of this policy is to ensure permanent access to published articles, preserve the integrity of the journal's scholarly record and protect publications against loss, corruption or unauthorized modification.

The Editorial Office is committed to maintaining the long-term availability of published research for the benefit of the international scientific community.

2. Permanent Availability of Publications

All articles published in Youth in Central and Eastern Europe remain permanently and freely available through the journal's official website.

The Editorial Office makes every effort to ensure uninterrupted access to the full text of published articles and their metadata, enabling discovery, citation and lawful reuse in accordance with the applicable publishing license.

3. Digital Identification (DOI)

Each published article is assigned a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registered through Crossref.

The DOI provides:

  • permanent identification of the publication;
  • a persistent and stable web address;
  • unambiguous scholarly citation;
  • long-term discoverability and accessibility.

4. Archiving System

The editorial workflow and publication archive are managed using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, which enables the secure preservation of:

  • full-text articles;
  • publication metadata;
  • editorial workflow records;
  • editorial documentation.

Open Journal Systems (OJS) supports the long-term preservation and management of digital scholarly resources in accordance with international publishing standards.

5. Integrity of the Scholarly Record

Once an article has been published, its official Version of Record constitutes the permanent archival version and is not altered.

If post-publication changes become necessary, the Editorial Office publishes appropriate notices in accordance with internationally recognized publishing standards, including:

  • Erratum;
  • Corrigendum;
  • Expression of Concern;
  • Retraction.

The original published version remains part of the permanent scholarly record and is never replaced by a revised version of the article.

6. Long-Term Preservation

The Editorial Office is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of all published content through appropriate organizational and technical measures.

Long-term preservation includes, in particular:

  • maintaining the electronic archive within the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform;
  • registering publications with Crossref and assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs);
  • preserving publication metadata;
  • cooperation with international indexing services and scholarly repositories.

7. Archiving in Scholarly Databases

Articles published in Youth in Central and Eastern Europe may be archived, indexed and made available through national and international bibliographic databases, library catalogues and scholarly information services cooperating with the journal.

These include, in particular:

  • Crossref;
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ);
  • ERIH PLUS;
  • OpenAIRE;
  • Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL);
  • Library of Science;
  • Polish Scientific Bibliography (PBN);
  • other indexing services and scholarly repositories.

8. Author Self-Archiving

The Editorial Office encourages authors to deposit the published Version of Record in institutional repositories, subject repositories and other scholarly platforms.

Authors may make their published articles available through:

  • institutional repositories;
  • disciplinary repositories;
  • ORCID;
  • ResearchGate;
  • Academia.edu;
  • personal academic websites;
  • websites of universities and research institutions.

Authors are kindly requested to include the complete bibliographic citation together with the DOI linking to the official published version on the journal website.

9. Archive Availability

The journal archive remains permanently and freely accessible without subscription fees or other access restrictions.

The Editorial Office does not remove published articles from the archive except in exceptional circumstances involving serious breaches of publication ethics. In such cases, appropriate notices are issued in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

10. Compliance with International Standards

This Archiving Policy has been developed in accordance with the recommendations and standards of:

  • Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE);
  • Crossref;
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ);
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS);
  • international best practices for the long-term preservation of scholarly publications.

11. Business Continuity and Data Recovery

The Editorial Office undertakes reasonable measures to ensure the continuity of the journal's publishing activities and to protect published content against data loss resulting from technical failures, system errors or other unforeseen events.

These measures include procedures for safeguarding digital resources, maintaining appropriate backup practices and enabling data recovery whenever necessary. The objective is to preserve the integrity, availability and long-term security of the journal's scholarly record.

This Archiving Policy has been developed in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the standards of Crossref, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the principles of Open Journal Systems (OJS), and internationally recognized best practices for the long-term preservation of scholarly publications.