1. Purpose
Maros Law and Social Studies is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, and integrity of all published scholarly content. This policy outlines the journal’s approach to digital archiving and the rights of authors to self-archive their work.
2. Open Access and Self-Archiving
Maros Law and Social Studies is a fully open-access journal. Authors are permitted to self-archive and share their manuscripts to facilitate wider dissemination of research.
Authors may deposit the following versions of their articles:
- Preprint: the version submitted to the journal before peer review;
- Accepted Manuscript: the peer-reviewed version accepted for publication;
- Published Version (Version of Record): the final formatted version published by the journal.
All versions may be deposited without embargo on personal websites, institutional repositories, or subject-specific repositories.
All self-archived versions must include proper attribution to Maros Law and Social Studies as the original publisher, include a link to the published article or DOI, and comply with the journal’s Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.
3. Journal Archiving and Preservation
All articles published in Maros Law and Social Studies are permanently hosted on the journal’s official website:
https://sitasipress.com/mlss
To ensure long-term access, published content is also archived in trusted digital preservation systems:
- CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe): a decentralized, geographically distributed archive that preserves content even if the journal ceases publication.
- LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe): a distributed archiving system that enables participating libraries to preserve and provide permanent access to content.
4. Metadata Preservation
To support long-term discoverability, Maros Law and Social Studies preserves and disseminates article metadata, including titles, abstracts, author information, keywords, and Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) through recognized indexing and registration services such as Crossref and other scholarly discovery platforms.
5. Contingency Plan
In the event that Maros Law and Social Studies is unable to continue publication or maintain access to its content, preserved copies in CLOCKSS, LOCKSS, and official backups will ensure that the scholarly record remains accessible to the research community.
6. Author Responsibilities
Authors who self-archive their work are encouraged to clearly indicate the version of the manuscript deposited and to provide full citation and a link to the official published version of record.
7. Policy Scope
This Archiving and Self-Archiving Policy applies to all articles published in Maros Law and Social Studies and is aligned with the journal’s Open Access Policy, Copyright Policy, and Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
