Indexing & Archiving

Editorial Overview

The Journal of Addiction Therapy and Research (JATR) is committed to transparency, accessibility and scholarly visibility through robust indexing, metadata registration and digital preservation systems. Our goal is to make each article discoverable across global academic networks and permanently preserved in trusted repositories.

All published articles are assigned a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and indexed in leading scientific and bibliographic databases. JATR’s content is permanently archived using redundant preservation partners to ensure data integrity and recovery even in the event of catastrophic digital loss.

Indexing Coverage

JATR actively participates in global indexing and metadata registration networks that enhance citation impact and academic traceability. Indexing facilitates visibility in literature searches and inclusion in systematic reviews.

Additional indexing applications to PubMed Central, DOAJ and EBSCO are periodically reviewed to extend the journal’s bibliographic coverage.

Digital Archiving and Preservation Systems

JATR preserves its content following the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS principles to guarantee perpetual access. Redundant archiving ensures that digital materials remain available even in cases of publisher change or website migration.

• Portico – Trusted long-term preservation service that archives XML, PDF and supplementary materials, ensuring seamless retrieval.
• PKP Preservation Network (PN) – An OJS-linked network maintaining multi-node archival copies of JATR’s issues and metadata.
• Institutional Repositories – Partner libraries mirror JATR content to comply with open-science and funder mandates.
• Local Backups – Weekly and monthly encrypted offsite backups are maintained under HSPI’s data-governance policy.

OAI-PMH and Metadata Compliance

JATR fully complies with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) standard, enabling repositories and indexing services to harvest its metadata automatically.

• Base URL: https://www.addictiontherjournal.com/oai
• Protocol version: 2.0
• Metadata formats supported: Dublin Core (oai_dc), MARCXML, Crossref XML
• Harvest interval: every 24 hours for partner aggregators
• OAI identifiers map directly to Crossref DOIs for persistent linking

Metadata fields conform to Dublin Core and Crossref schema v5.3.1 standards, ensuring machine-readability, author disambiguation via ORCID, and inclusion of funder and license data.

Editorial Importance of Indexing

Indexing is not merely a technical requirement; it underpins academic credibility and dissemination. By ensuring inclusion in recognized directories, JATR:

• Enhances citation performance and altmetric visibility.
• Assures readers that all published content meets peer-review and ethical standards.
• Allows libraries and research funders to verify compliance with open-access mandates.
• Integrates seamlessly with academic tools such as Zotero, Mendeley, PubMed LinkOut and ORCID profiles.

The editorial office routinely audits metadata accuracy, DOI resolution and citation indexing to maintain high visibility metrics across platforms.

Preservation and Content Integrity Policy

To protect the scholarly record, JATR implements the following digital preservation measures:

• Each article’s XML, PDF, and metadata are preserved in multiple storage locations with checksum verification.
• Automated DOI checks verify persistent linking every quarter.
• Version control using CrossMark ensures readers access the latest article version.
• Withdrawn or retracted articles remain discoverable with watermarked retraction statements to preserve citation transparency.
• All preservation operations align with NESTOR criteria and ISO 16363 standards for trustworthy digital repositories.

These procedures guarantee authenticity, fixity, and reproducibility of the published record, reinforcing public trust in addiction science dissemination.

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