Journal of Quranic Teaching and Learning is committed to keeping published articles permanently archived, both independently by administrators and in collaboration with partner organizations.
Article Digital Archive
Local
The Journal of Quranic Teaching and Learning maintains comprehensive facilities for securely archiving all published articles. Each manuscript is preserved and backed up across multiple storage points, including the journal’s main computer system, the editor-in-chief’s and managing editor’s devices, the copy editor’s storage, two external archival hard drives, as well as the journal’s Google Drive and cloud storage services. All files are kept in both .docx and PDF formats. To guarantee long-term accessibility, the journal is fully committed to updating, converting, and improving its digital file formats in line with the latest technological developments.
Internet Archive
The Journal of Quranic Teaching and Learning is committed to ensuring that all published articles remain continuously available and easily accessible online. To support this commitment, the journal’s content is routinely archived and preserved through the Internet Archive. Readers are invited to visit the journal’s dedicated archive page to access the stored materials in archive.org
Self-archiving
The Journal of Quranic Teaching and Learning fully endorses self-archiving practices. The journal allows and encourages authors to enhance the visibility and accessibility of their work by depositing the final published version in personal or institutional repositories immediately after publication, provided that complete bibliographic information is included.
Indexing
The Journal of Quranic Teaching and Learning works with several abstracting and indexing services that retain essential information about each published article. In addition, two of these services preserve not only the article metadata but also the full electronic versions of the articles. As a result, alternative access to the journal’s publications is available to the scholarly community through their platforms.
The Journal of Quranic Teaching and Learning ensures long-term digital continuity by storing its publications across various international digital archives. Every article is securely preserved and permanently accessible in both .docx and PDF formats. The journal also provides comprehensive article metadata in accordance with the Open Archives Initiative protocols, allowing automated harvesting and integration of its research outputs into other archival systems. We actively support the broad, non-exclusive digital archiving of our publications by multiple global repositories to guarantee their preservation, security, and enduring accessibility.
Journal of Quranic Teaching and Learning utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.
Website archive
The Journal of Quranic Teaching and Learning maintains its entire electronic content, including the website and all manuscripts, across three separate storage locations. One server hosts the live version of the site that readers can access, while two additional sources function as backup systems. If the primary server experiences a failure, one of the backup sources can be activated to restore access, ensuring that the website is available again within 24 hours.
If the Journal Discontinues Its Publication Activities
The Journal of Quranic Teaching and Learning is committed to maintaining uninterrupted publication. However, if unexpected circumstances require the journal to cease its publishing activities, all previously published manuscripts will remain available online and accessible to readers for at least ten years. If needed under certain conditions, such as the ending of the journal’s collection or a major website failure, access to the content will still be guaranteed through the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS preservation systems.
The LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) program provides a secure and permanent archival system for the journal’s materials, and the CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system ensures long term and reliable preservation of all journal content.
