Archiving Policy

Oman Chapter of AJBMR is a ‘green’ journal, as we allow self-archiving of accepted and published papers through an open access policy before and after the publication of a paper in the journal. Authors retain the copyright of their scholarly work and can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher’s version/PDF to personal or institutional repositories or libraries anytime without requiring permission from the journal or publisher.

Authors of published articles in the Oman Chapter of AJBMR are entitled to deposit their accepted manuscript or the version of record (published papers) in institutional and/or centrally organized repositories and can make this publicly available immediately upon acceptance and publication, provided that the journal and the ZARSMI are attributed as the original place of publication and that correct citation details are given.

Upon acceptance of the paper by the journal, the authors acknowledge while making their article publicly available that the article has been accepted for publication as follows:

Authors can also make their published article publicly available immediately after publication without requiring any permission from different repositories, libraries or personal websites provided that they also deposit the URL of their published article, in addition to the PDF version by correctly citing the journal name and the ZARSMI/AOJP as publisher along with other citation details.

Digital Archiving and Preservation

To digitally preserve all published scholarly content including that of the Oman Chapter of AJBMR submit the journals’ content to Portico for digital archiving for long-term digital preservation. This information can be found at: https://multidisciplinary.center/journals/. Furthermore, the ZARSMI commits to submit the metadata of the Kuwait Chapter of AJBMR and all other journals to LOCKSS and CLOCKSS via PKP Preservation Network and other institutional repositories. This is to make sure that the published scholarly content by the ZARSMI remains available to the community despite the discontinuation of any journal or any accidental loss of journal data in its archival records. The ZARSMI has further made sure that the metadata of all its open-access journals is compliant with well-known repository services and their digital crawlers may regularly collect it for record and preservation.