Digital Preservation Policy

Philologica Canariensia, through digital preservation methods, ensures the intellectual content of electronic records for long periods of time, maintaining the attributes of integrity, authenticity, inalterability, originality, reliability, and accessibility.

Our journal, in compliance with digital preservation policies, is governed by the following procedures:

1. The storage of digital resources with extreme care.
2. Evaluations in the use of preservation strategies such as data rejuvenation, data consistency checks, migration, emulation, preservation of technology, and digital archeology.
3. The encapsulation of the information to be preserved together with descriptive metadata.
4. The self-documentation, understanding and codifying the information preserved without reference to external documentation.
5. The sufficiency, minimizing dependencies of systems, data or documentation.
6. The documentation of the type of content, with a view to a future user to find or implement software that allows to see the information preserved.

Philologica Canariensia uses the digital preservation system of LOCKSS (https://www.lockss.org/) from Stanford University. This offers digital preservation services, in open source, with the aim of providing and permanently preserving access to digital content generated through our publication. In addition, it allows the sharing of digital content in a secure way among the participating libraries. 

Likewise, all the content of the journal (past and present editions) is preserved not only in the scientific research portal of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (accedaCRIS), but also in different international repositories, such as Google Scholar o Dialnet, among others.

Finally, Philologica Canariensia includes a policy based on storing information in formats that are widely used today (this increases the likelihood that when a format becomes obsolete there will still be programmes for its conversion: PDF and HTML are examples of these).