Archiving and Preservation
Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of all published articles.
Article Digital Archiving
Local
Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education has facilities to store published articles. They are stored and backed up on computers, including Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education, editor-in-chief's, managing editors, copy editors, two portable archive hard disks, and Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education's google drive and cloud storage in .Docx, and PDF formats. To ensure accessibility, Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education will gladly change and enhance the digital file formats in accordance to the latest technological standards.
Self-Archiving
The journal supports self-archiving. Authors are permitted to deposit the final published version of their articles in personal or institutional repositories, provided proper citation to the original publication is included.
Indexing
Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education abstracting/indexing services keep much essential information about the articles. Additionally, two of our journal abstracting/indexing services archive not only the article metadata, but also the electronic versions of the articles as well. Therefore, copies of the articles are available to the scientific community through their systems as an alternative to the journal.
All published articles are assigned to Digital Object Identifier (DOI)- CrossRef. Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education saves publications in multiple digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. All articles are permanently archived and available in .Docx, and PDF formats. Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education makes article metadata available in compliance with Open Archives Initiative protocols which enable automated collecting of our research articles for inclusion in any other digital archives. We support the non-exclusive digital archiving of research articles by as many international archives as possible, to ensure the security and permanent accessibility of that research.
Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education is an initiative participant of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe). LOCKSS enables any library to maintain their content archives from Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education and other publishers easily by using affordable available hardware.
Website archive
Website archive of all Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education electronic contents (website, manuscripts, etc.) is stored on three different sources. Contents on one server are online and accessible to the readers and are backed up on two other sources. In case of one server failure, one of the other sources can be set online, so the website is expected to be accessible within 24-36 hours.
If Journal Stops Publishing
Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education intends and expects to publish the journal continuously. If due to some problems, we are forced to stop publishing the journal, the published manuscripts will be kept online and accessible to the readers for at least 10 years ahead. When required under specific conditions, such as discontinuation of the collection or catastrophic failure of the website, the content will be accessible through LOCKSS and CLOCKSS.
The LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system ensures a secure and permanent archive for journal content, and the CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system ensures a secure and permanent archive for the journal.
