Archiving Policy

To ensure the permanent availability, accessibility, and preservation of scholarly research, Wellspring: Journal of Sustainable Public Health employs robust archiving strategies. We are dedicated to safeguarding the digital record of our publications for future generations of researchers, policymakers, and public health professionals.

1. Digital Preservation Network

This journal utilizes the Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network (PKP PN), as well as the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS systems. These initiatives create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permit those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration, ensuring long-term digital survival of the published data.

2. Self-Archiving Policy

Authors are permitted and strongly encouraged to post their accepted or published manuscripts online (e.g., in institutional repositories, subject-specific repositories, or on personal academic websites). This practice of self-archiving enhances the visibility of the research, fosters productive scholarly exchanges, and generally leads to earlier and greater citation of published work.

3. Persistent Identifiers

To guarantee persistent linking and reliable future accessibility, every published article is assigned a permanent Digital Object Identifier (DOI) through Crossref. This ensures that the links to the journal's content remain stable and accessible, regardless of any future changes in the journal's website infrastructure.