Digital Archiving Policies of Central European Journals

This paper by Branka Marijanović and Hrvoje Stanĉić, based at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, examines digital archiving policies of open access electronic scholarly journals in Central Europe. They studied a sample of 1,589 journals registered with DOAJ and found that 69% of them have an archiving policy. Portico and national libraries are the most widely used archives. 19% of the preserved journals are archived in more than one archive. A comparison with Asian journals show that they are less archived than Central European ones.