Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy

The Journal of Biology Education Research (JBER) is dedicated to the long-term preservation and permanent availability of all published scholarly content. To guarantee that our digital archives remain continuously accessible to the global academic community—even in the highly unlikely event of platform or publisher disruptions—JBER utilizes robust, industry-standard digital preservation networks.

This journal explicitly permits and employs the following archiving systems:

• LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe): JBER utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving network among participating libraries. The LOCKSS system is granted explicit permission to collect, preserve, and serve permanent digital archives of the journal's content for long-term restoration and preservation purposes.

• CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS): The journal is also integrated into the CLOCKSS system, a global "dark archive" supported by research libraries and scholarly publishers. The CLOCKSS system is authorized to ingest, safely preserve, and serve the archival units of this journal to ensure the scholarly record is never lost.

• PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN): As part of our Open Journal Systems (OJS) infrastructure, JBER natively deposits published articles into the PKP PN, a secure, decentralized preservation network designed specifically for OJS-hosted journals.

All archived and preserved content remains fully compliant with our Open Access mandate and is governed by the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), ensuring unrestricted access for future generations of biology educators, researchers, and students.