Archiving & Digital Preservation Policy

The Journal of Medical Food and Nutrition (JMN) is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, authenticity, and integrity of the scholarly record. The journal adopts appropriate digital preservation practices to safeguard all published content and ensure its continued availability to researchers, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and the public.

The purpose of this policy is to ensure that all published articles remain permanently accessible and discoverable, even in the event of technical failures, platform migration, or discontinuation of the journal. The journal periodically reviews its preservation practices to maintain compliance with internationally accepted scholarly publishing standards.

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1. Digital Archiving Services

The journal is currently Not implementing a long-term digital preservation strategy.

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2. Institutional & National Repositories

Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit published versions (Version of Record) in:

• Institutional repositories

• National libraries

• Subject repositories

3. Self-Archiving Rights

Authors are encouraged to disseminate their published research. As articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, authors may immediately archive and share the final published Version of Record in institutional repositories, funder repositories, personal or institutional websites, and other non-commercial repositories, provided appropriate citation to the original publication is included.

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4. Persistent Identifiers

Every article published in the Journal of Medical Food and Nutrition is assigned a Crossref Digital Object Identifier (DOI), providing a permanent and persistent link to the published version and facilitating accurate citation, indexing, and long-term discoverability.

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5. Backups & Preservation

• Multiple redundant backups are maintained on secure servers.

• Regular integrity checks are performed to prevent data loss.

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6. Metadata Preservation
In addition to preserving full-text articles, the journal maintains and preserves essential bibliographic metadata, including article titles, author names, affiliations, abstracts, keywords, publication dates, and DOI information to support long-term discoverability and indexing.

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7. Journal Closure Policy

In the unlikely event that the Journal of Medical Food and Nutrition ceases publication, reasonable efforts will be made to ensure that all previously published content remains permanently accessible through the journal's designated digital preservation arrangements and the journal website.

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7. Policy Review

This Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy is reviewed periodically and may be updated to reflect developments in scholarly publishing, digital preservation technologies, and international best practices.