Preserving your research for the long term
OpenAccessPub has partnered with Portico, one of the world’s largest community-supported digital-preservation services, to safeguard our published research for the future. As articles are deposited, they enter Portico’s permanent archive.
What this means for your work
Digital preservation ensures that scholarly content remains available for the long term — even decades from now, and even if a journal one day stops publishing. It is a core marker of a trustworthy open-access publisher.
For authors
Your published article is committed to an independent permanent archive — so its availability never depends on a single website staying online.
For readers & libraries
Preserved content can be released to participating libraries if it is ever no longer available from the publisher — a requirement many indexes and institutions look for.
For the scholarly record
Preservation works alongside the permanent Crossref DOI on every article and your right to self-archive under CC BY 4.0.
Portico is a not-for-profit digital-preservation service run by ITHAKA — the same non-profit organization behind JSTOR. It is used by many of the world’s leading publishers and research libraries to keep scholarly content safe for the long term.
Portico operates as a “dark archive”: preserved content is held securely and made available to participating libraries in defined circumstances — for example, if a title is no longer offered by its publisher. That safeguard is what makes long-term access dependable.
How your published work is safeguarded
Preservation is one of three complementary safeguards on every OpenAccessPub article:
Long-term preservation
Content committed to Portico’s permanent archive for durable, independent access.
Permanent Crossref DOI
Every article carries a permanent DOI and complete, standards-based metadata, so it stays findable and citable.
CC BY 4.0 open licence
You may also deposit the published version in institutional and subject repositories — with no embargo.
See our full publishing policies for more on copyright, self-archiving and data availability.
Questions authors ask
Is my article included in Portico?
OpenAccessPub’s content is being deposited to Portico now. As each batch is processed, those articles enter Portico’s permanent archive. This page will confirm when full preservation is in place.
What happens if a journal stops publishing?
That is exactly what preservation protects against. Because content is held in Portico’s independent dark archive, it can be released to participating libraries if it is ever no longer available from the publisher — so the scholarly record survives.
Is digital preservation the same as indexing?
They’re complementary. Indexing helps people discover your article; digital preservation guarantees it remains accessible for the long term. Together they strengthen the durability and trustworthiness of your published work.
Publish where your work will last
Peer-reviewed, open access, and preserved for the long term — submit to an OpenAccessPub journal.