Archiving Policy

Scope statement

Advances in Agriculture and Biology (AAB) gives guarantee that all papers published are maintained and permanently accessible; a complete archival copy of each article is stored in electronic format of AAB for long-term availability to the community.  

Preamble

We allow self-archiving of published papers through open access policy after the publication of a paper in AAB. AAB urges to share the knowledge at maximum by making the publications accessible from several digital and academic repositories around the world. Authors retain the copyright of their scholarly work and can archive post-print or publisher’s version/PDF to personal or institutional repositories or libraries or the non-commercial repositories under an open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License anytime without requiring permission from the journal or publisher.

Authors of published articles in AAB are entitled to deposit their accepted manuscript or the version of published papers in institutional and/or centrally organized repositories and can make this publicly available immediately upon publication, provided that the journal and society are attributed as the original place of publication and that correct citation details are given.

Upon acceptance of paper by the journal, the authors acknowledge while making their article publicly available that the article has been accepted for publication as follows:

This article has been accepted for publication in Advances in Agriculture and Biology.

Authors can also make their published article publicly available immediately after publication without requiring any permission to different repositories, libraries or personal websites provided that they also deposit the URL of their published article, in addition to the PDF version by correctly citing the journal name along with other citation details.

Preservation of Published Contents through Digital Archiving

In order to digitally preserve all published scholarly content, it is recommended that submitting the metadata of Advances in Agriculture and Biology to LOCKS via PKP PN and other repositories such as Repec. This is to make sure that the published scholarly content by AAB remains available to the community in spite of any accidental loss of data in its personal archival records. AAB has further made sure that the metadata of all its open access journals is compliant to well-known repository services and their digital crawlers may regularly collect it for record and preservation.