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Open Access Policy
MULTI DISCERE JOURNAL · ACCESS & ARCHIVING
Open Access & Digital Preservation
Reader access, permitted reuse, and continuity of access to the published scholarly record.
01Open Access Policy
Immediate open access: MDJ makes published research articles publicly available to read through its OJS journal website without reader subscription charges. Article landing pages, metadata and available full-text files can be reached through the Archives.
Open access concerns reader access. The terms for reuse, reproduction and adaptation are separately governed by the license shown on each article and on the Copyright & Licensing page.
02Reuse and Sharing
Read
Published MDJ articles may be accessed online without subscription or pay-per-view barriers.
Share
Readers may copy and distribute material under the conditions of the article’s Creative Commons license.
Adapt responsibly
Adaptation requires appropriate attribution and compliance with applicable ShareAlike obligations and third-party rights.
03Digital Archiving and Preservation
Multi Discere Journal (MDJ) is committed to supporting the long-term availability, discoverability, and integrity of its published scholarly content. The journal provides access to published articles and issue records through its OJS Archives and identifies the following OJS Publisher Manifest endpoints to support digital-preservation workflows.
LOCKSS Publisher Manifest
Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) is a distributed digital-preservation approach that allows participating institutions to collect and retain authorized copies of scholarly content. The OJS manifest provides information about published issues and archiving permissions for eligible harvesting.
CLOCKSS Publisher Manifest
Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (CLOCKSS) is a preservation network designed to maintain protected copies of scholarly content and make preserved material available under its applicable release procedures. The OJS manifest provides issue information for preservation workflows where the relevant arrangements are in place.
Scope of the Publisher Manifests. These links expose OJS publisher-manifest pages intended to facilitate discovery and collection by authorized preservation systems. The availability of a manifest does not, on its own, confirm membership in a preservation network or establish that the journal's content has already been ingested, replicated, or preserved by LOCKSS or CLOCKSS.
Preservation arrangements and the coverage of deposited content depend on the requirements of the relevant archive. The editorial office should review manifest accessibility, applicable permissions, preservation or ingestion confirmations, and the continuity of access to previously published issues. The public OJS archive and persistent identifiers support access and discovery but are not substitutes for independently verified long-term preservation.
Published Record
Articles, metadata, and issue information are available from the journal's OJS Archives.
Publisher Manifests
LOCKSS and CLOCKSS manifest endpoints identify archival information and applicable permissions.
Preservation Verification
External archival coverage is confirmed through the relevant network's participation and harvesting records.
04Persistent Access and Metadata
Article-level metadata, journal issue records, permanent article URLs and registered DOIs support discovery and record continuity but do not replace file preservation. When a published article is corrected or retracted, MDJ should retain the original bibliographic record and visibly link the corresponding editorial notice.
Where repository deposit is permitted by the article license, authors may preserve copies in institutional or subject repositories, with an acknowledgment of the article’s first publication in MDJ.
