Repository policy

Repository and Archiving Policy

Open Access • Long-Term Preservation • Repository Integration • Scholarly Accessibility

Innovations in STEAM: Research & Education (ISRE) is an open-access journal committed to global dissemination, long-term preservation, and unrestricted accessibility of scholarly research.

ISRE is committed to the long-term preservation, accessibility, and integrity of all published scholarly content. The journal ensures permanent digital availability of all articles through its Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform and assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) via Crossref for persistent citation and retrieval.

To guarantee long-term preservation, ISRE participates in recognised digital archiving and preservation systems, including LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), where applicable. In addition, the journal supports archiving through institutional repositories and trusted subject-based repositories.

All published content is preserved in accordance with international best practices for scholarly publishing and open-access preservation standards. In the event of journal discontinuation, all published content will remain accessible through participating preservation networks and repositories.

Authors are encouraged to deposit published and accepted versions of their work in institutional or subject repositories to enhance visibility and ensure redundant preservation.

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: 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. 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, author identifiers, and citation-ready metadata to maximise visibility and citation impact.

4. Data and Supplementary Material

Authors are encouraged to deposit underlying datasets, figures, or supplementary materials in recognised 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.

5. 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.

Important Notice: All repository deposits and archived materials should preserve the integrity, citation accuracy, and authenticity of the scholarly record. Any unauthorised modification, misleading redistribution, or misrepresentation of publication metadata may result in corrective action according to journal publication ethics and repository standards.

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Google Scholar	Semantic Scholar
WorldCat	Internet Archive
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Articles published in this journal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted use, sharing, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source. Under this licence, all content is freely accessible without any charge to users or their institutions. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full text of articles, as well as use them for any lawful purpose, without requiring prior permission from the publisher or the authors. This policy is consistent with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.