Digital Preservation Policy

Last updated: May 15, 2026

Pensar – Journal of Legal Sciences adopts a long-term digital preservation policy, aligned with international best practices in scientific communication and with the principles of Open Science. The aim of this policy is to ensure that all content published by the journal — since its founding in 1992 — remains permanently accessible, intact, and retrievable, regardless of technological, institutional, or editorial platform changes.

Digital preservation is understood by the journal as an essential condition for the continuity of the scientific record and as an ethical commitment to authors, readers, and the academic community.

1. Preservation systems in use

Pensar keeps preserved copies of its content in two distributed systems, internationally recognized and independent from each other, as recorded in the ISSN Portal:

Cariniana Network – IBICT: the journal is archived by the Brazilian Digital Preservation Services Network (Cariniana), coordinated by the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), a body of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Cariniana uses the LOCKSS infrastructure (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) to ensure redundant and geographically distributed copies in servers of partner institutions in Brazil.

PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN): the journal is also preserved by the preservation network of the Public Knowledge Project, maintained by Simon Fraser University (Canada). PKP PN is a free service that uses LOCKSS technology to ensure distributed and intact copies of the content of journals hosted on OJS.

The simultaneous adoption of two independent systems provides additional redundancy and mitigates the risk of long-term content loss.

2. Scope of preservation

The following are subject to the preservation policy:

  • Scientific articles published in all volumes/issues of the journal;
  • Complete metadata associated with each article (title, authorship, affiliation, abstract, keywords, editorial dates, DOI, license);
  • PDF/A and XML JATS files, when available;
  • Supplementary materials deposited as part of the Open Science process (reviewer reports, originality reports, data forms, editorial decision notes);
  • Persistent identifiers (Crossref DOI and ORCiD) assigned to articles and authors.

3. Integration with persistent identifiers

To strengthen the retrievability of preserved content, all articles published by Pensar receive a Crossref DOI (prefix 10.5020), and authorship is linked to ORCiD identifiers. These identifiers remain valid even in the event of discontinuation of the current OJS platform, allowing the preserved content to be redirected.

4. Policy in case of discontinuation

Should Pensar at any future time interrupt its editorial activities or migrate to another platform, the previously published content will remain available through the copies preserved in the Cariniana Network and in PKP PN. The editorial team and Universidade de Fortaleza (Unifor) commit to formally communicating any structural changes to the preservation services and to the readership, with the necessary lead time to ensure continued access.

5. Policy review and update

This policy is periodically reviewed by the editorial team of Pensar to incorporate new preservation services that prove relevant, and to maintain alignment with national and international editorial best-practice recommendations (DOAJ, COPE, SciELO, IBICT).

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