Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy

Annales Medicinae Urgentis is committed to ensuring the long-term availability, accessibility, integrity, and preservation of its published scholarly content.

The journal recognises that digital preservation is essential for maintaining the scholarly record and ensuring that published articles remain accessible to readers, authors, researchers, indexing services, libraries, and the wider academic community.

Published content

The journal preserves the final published version of record of all articles, including:

• full-text articles in PDF format;
• article metadata;
• abstracts and keywords;
• author information and affiliations;
• DOI and citation information;
• supplementary material, where applicable;
• corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, and other post-publication notices.

The version of record is the final, formally published version of an article made available on the journal website.

Journal website

All published articles are made freely and permanently available on the official website of Annales Medicinae Urgentis.

The journal website provides access to article landing pages, abstracts, full-text articles, PDF files, DOI links, licensing information, and relevant metadata.

The journal aims to maintain stable URLs for all published content. If website changes, migrations, or technical updates are required, the journal will make reasonable efforts to preserve access to published articles and redirect users to the current location of the content.

Repository and platform archiving

Published content may be deposited, archived, or made available through appropriate national, institutional, or scholarly platforms, including:

• the journal’s official website;
• Hrčak – Portal of Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals, where applicable;
• DOI registration and metadata services;
• indexing and abstracting databases;

The journal may expand its archiving arrangements over time to include additional trusted digital preservation services, such as LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico, PKP Preservation Network, or equivalent platforms.

DOI and metadata preservation

Articles published in Annales Medicinae Urgentis are assigned Digital Object Identifiers where applicable.

Article metadata are registered with the appropriate DOI registration agency or metadata provider. Metadata may include article title, authors, affiliations, abstract, keywords, publication date, journal issue, DOI, license information, references, funding information, and other bibliographic details.

DOI registration helps ensure persistent identification and discoverability of published content, even if the location of the article changes.

Backups and technical preservation

The journal maintains backup procedures to reduce the risk of data loss and to support restoration of published content in case of technical failure, cyber incident, accidental deletion, website migration, or other disruption.

Backup copies may include article files, metadata, website content, submission records, editorial files, and other materials necessary for maintaining the published scholarly record.

The journal aims to store published content in widely used and durable file formats, such as PDF and XML or other structured metadata formats where available.

Author self-archiving

Authors are permitted to deposit and share their work in accordance with the journal’s Open Access, Copyright and Licensing Policy.

Authors may archive and distribute the submitted version, accepted manuscript, and published version of record of their article without embargo, including in:

• institutional repositories;
• subject repositories;
• personal websites;
• academic networking platforms;
• funder repositories;
• other appropriate digital archives.

When sharing or depositing the published version, authors should include the full citation, DOI, journal name, and license information.

Long-term accessibility

The journal is committed to maintaining long-term public access to published content.

In the event that Annales Medicinae Urgentis ceases publication, changes publisher, migrates to a different website, or undergoes organisational changes, reasonable efforts will be made to ensure that the published archive remains accessible through the journal website, Hrčak, institutional repositories, national repositories, DOI links, or another suitable digital archive.

The journal will aim to preserve the scholarly record even if new submissions are discontinued.

Corrections, retractions, and post-publication notices

Corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, removals, and other post-publication notices are preserved as part of the scholarly record.

Such notices will remain linked to the original article whenever possible. The original article record will clearly indicate that a post-publication notice exists.

Retracted articles will not normally be removed from the archive, except in exceptional circumstances such as legal requirements, serious privacy breaches, or risk of harm. Retraction notices will explain the reason for retraction and will remain publicly available.

Supplementary material

Supplementary material associated with published articles may be preserved together with the article where technically feasible and ethically appropriate.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that supplementary files do not contain confidential, identifiable, copyrighted, or ethically restricted material unless appropriate permissions and safeguards are in place.

The journal may decline to host or archive supplementary material that is unsuitable for long-term preservation, technically unstable, legally restricted, or ethically problematic.

Responsibilities

The publisher, editorial office, and technical support team are responsible for maintaining the journal’s archive and implementing reasonable measures for digital preservation.

Authors are encouraged to keep copies of their submitted files, accepted manuscripts, published articles, supporting data, ethics approvals, consent documentation, and related research materials in accordance with institutional and legal requirements.

Policy updates

This Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy may be updated to reflect changes in journal infrastructure, repository arrangements, indexing services, preservation platforms, technical standards, or publication ethics guidance.

Questions about archiving and digital preservation should be directed to the editorial office:

Editorial office: visnja.nesek@hotmail.com

Last updated: 22.6.2026.