Repository policy

Repository and Archiving Policy

Innovations in STEAM: Research & Education (ISRE) is an open-access journal committed to global dissemination, long-term preservation, and unrestricted accessibility of scholarly research. This policy complies with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) principles of transparency, the COPE publishing ethics, and the Scopus Content Coverage Policy. It is fully compatible with institutional, subject-based, and international repository systems, ensuring that authors retain full rights to deposit and share their work.

1. Author Self-Archiving Rights

ISRE permits and actively encourages authors to deposit, share, and archive all versions of their manuscripts, in accordance with SHERPA/RoMEO and open-access repository standards:

Version Author Rights
Pre-print (submitted version before peer review) May be posted anytime on the author’s personal website, institutional repository, or preprint server (e.g. arXiv, bioRxiv).
Post-print (accepted version after peer review) May be deposited immediately after acceptance in institutional or subject repositories, provided a citation to the published article is included.
Publisher’s Version (PDF) May be deposited on acceptance or after publication with full citation, DOI link, and journal attribution: Innovations in STEAM: Research & Education (ISRE). No embargo period applies.

All archived copies must include the article DOI, copyright notice, and the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) statement.

2. Licensing and Copyright

Authors retain full copyright of their work.

Published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing for use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This licensing model complies with DOAJ’s open-access criteria, OJS repository standards, and Scopus indexing policies for fully open-access journals.

3. Repository Deposits

  • PKP Preservation Network (PKP-PN) for OJS journals
  • LOCKSS and CLOCKSS systems for redundant archiving
  • OpenAIRE for European open-access compliance
  • Crossref for DOI registration and metadata indexing
  • National and institutional repositories in cooperation with university libraries

These systems ensure long-term preservation of all published materials and compliance with Plan S, OpenAIRE, and FAIR Data Principles.

4. Metadata and Indexing Integration

All metadata are openly available under the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), accessible via the OJS platform. Metadata are structured for compatibility with Scopus, DOAJ, Crossref, Google Scholar, and other major discovery services. Each published article includes a persistent DOI, ORCID author identifiers, and citation-ready metadata to maximize visibility and citation impact.

5. Data and Supplementary Material

Authors are encouraged to deposit underlying datasets, figures, or supplementary materials in recognized open repositories such as Zenodo, Figshare, or Dryad.

Datasets must include appropriate metadata, ethical approval statements (for human/animal data), and links to the related article DOI. ISRE supports FAIR Data Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and adheres to ICMJE’s data-sharing policy for medical research.

6. Compliance with International Standards

  • DOAJ’s Principles of Transparency and Best Practice
  • COPE Publication Ethics Guidelines
  • Scopus Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB) criteria
  • OJS PKP-PN archiving standards
  • Clarivate Web of Science (Impact Factor) repository expectations

ISRE’s repository policy ensures that all published research remains permanently accessible, ethically managed, and globally visible to support the advancement of open, reproducible, and high-impact scholarship.