Digital Preservation Policy

The journal Perseitas, published by Universidad Católica Luis Amigó, adheres to the Institutional Guidelines for Digital Preservation, Information Security, and Interoperability Protocols, aimed at ensuring the protection, integrity, and availability of the digital assets that constitute the University’s intellectual heritage, including those hosted on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.

These guidelines provide the framework to ensure that the journal’s editorial production remains accessible and protected against technical incidents and cyber threats, guaranteeing institutional continuity and open access to knowledge.

Digital Preservation (Backup and Continuity)

The University guarantees the regular backup of critical information and promotes the progressive strengthening of its recovery capacity in the event of situations that may affect institutional continuity.

Currently, the backup scheme includes:

  • Daily incremental backups.
  • Weekly backups.
  • Monthly backups.

This model enables information recovery in the event of technical incidents, system failures, or unforeseen events, ensuring the preservation and continuous availability of institutional digital content, including editorial resources.

Institutional Repository and Content Preservation

The Institutional Repository is a platform for the storage, dissemination, preservation, and comprehensive management of academic and editorial production.

The repository’s digital preservation model is based on:

  • Structured organization into communities and collections.
  • A complete and permanent historical archive of publications.
  • Persistent identifiers and stable URLs.
  • Data integrity control during update processes.
  • Regular backups of databases and files.

Interoperability and Metadata

The journal Perseitas implements interoperability mechanisms that facilitate the visibility, retrieval, and integration of its content into national and international scientific information systems.

The journal uses the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol, which enables repositories, indexes, databases, catalogs, and other services to automatically harvest its metadata.

OAI-PMH access URL:

https://revistas.ucatolicaluisamigo.edu.co/index.php/perseitas/oai

This service strengthens knowledge circulation, academic indexing, and open access to the journal’s publications.

Information Security

The institution’s technological infrastructure is supported by protection mechanisms such as:

  • Next-generation firewall.
  • Logical network segmentation.
  • Network access control.
  • Advanced protection solutions for devices and servers.
  • Backup schemes with immutability features.

These controls are integrated within a formal information security governance framework.

Editorial Management and Technological Platforms

Editors and technical teams responsible for the OJS platforms assume duties aimed at ensuring the integrity of the digital heritage, particularly regarding:

  • NeUser management.
  • Configuration of roles and access permissions according to each collaborator’s functions.
  • Technical validation of new modules, plugins, or integrations. 

Institutional Commitment

Through this policy, the journal Perseitas reaffirms its commitment to digital preservation, data integrity and long-term preservation, and the permanence and accessibility of information related to published articles, in alignment with its editorial and metadata policies.