Digital Preservation Policy

The journal Horizonte Sanitario is committed to safeguarding its academic output over the long term. To ensure the availability, integrity, authenticity, and permanent accessibility of all its open-access digital content, the journal implements a preservation strategy structured around multiple levels and technological protocols:

1. PKP PN Preservation Network and LOCKSS. By using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform for its editorial management, the journal actively participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN). Through this network, the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) technology is employed, which creates a decentralized system that distributes backup copies of articles across various collaborating libraries worldwide. This enables the creation of permanent archives that ensure the preservation and restoration of original content in the event of critical failures, technological obsolescence, or data loss. The link to view the LOCKSS editorial manifesto for Horizonte sanitario is: https://revistahorizonte.ujat.mx/horizonte/en/gateway/lockss

2. Structured Formats and Interoperability in International Indexes. To ensure not only the preservation of the text but also that of its semantic structure and metadata, articles are encoded using the XML-JATS standard. As an integral part of global research ecosystems and networks such as SciELO, Redalyc, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), metadata and full-text articles are preserved in standardized formats in distributed repositories.

3. Persistent Identifiers (DOI). To prevent future link loss and ensure the permanent traceability of research, the journal systematically assigns a persistent DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to each published article. This ensures an unalterable and direct link to the official document.

4. Institutional Backups. Complementing international preservation networks, the institutional servers of the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (UJAT) perform automatic and periodic backups of the entire OJS database, including PDF, HTML, and XML files. This redundancy in backup guarantees rapid recovery in the event of potential technical contingencies.