Advances in Aerospace Science and Technology (AAST)

AAST: Archiving

All articles published with SCIRP and as such also all published in AAST will be archived with Portico (please, find AAST in the first line of table with all journal entries on Portico's page).

Portico maintains a dark archive for SCIRP. A dark archive is normally not visible.

The archive will become available open access on Portico’s site only when a trigger event occurs:
(A) The publisher is no longer in business.
(B) One title is no longer offered.
(C) Back issues are not available for a period longer than 90 days.
(D) Catastrophic failure: The publisher has stopped providing online access to its publication for a period longer than 90 days.

For triggered content the Document Identifier (DOI) will link to the content at that time available on Portico’s site.

Migration: Portico converts the original source files of electronic journals to an archival format. Portico assumes responsibility for future content conversion. In this way, it will be possible to read SCIRP’s journal articles also in the future no matter what format future technologies might require. The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) conducted a preservation audit of Portico in 2009 and certified Portico as a trustworthy digital repository.

All articles published in AAST will be archived in the German National Library, in German: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB).

Articles from AAST will be treated by the DNB as an Online Publication. More precisely as a Periodical Online Publication.

This includes three aspects:

• Cataloging: Articles from AAST will be available in the DNB Catalog. The interface of the catalog is unfortunately only available in German (but it should be possible to manage also with English knowledge). The catalog provides an entry to every AAST article with links
  • to the PDF of the article on the SCIRP web site and
  • to the archived version of the PDF at the DNB.
• Archiving: Articles from AAST are automatically stored for long-term preservation directly after publication (without any author action). The archive system of the German National Library has been certified as a "trusted" (suitable for long term storage) repository. This means that AAST also qulifies for the highest category of "Automatic Posting" on the Open Access Spectrum (OAS).
• URN Assignment: A Uniform Resource Name (URN) is attached automatically to each AAST article by the DNB. The URN is a persistent identifier (PI). The URN is the second PI attached to the AAST article. The first PI attached to the AAST article is the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The DOI gets attached to the AAST article on publication by SCIRP via CrossRef - one of the DOI Registration Agencies.

In summary, authors can be assured that their effort of writing a journal paper will not be in vain and the paper will be available for generations to come. Readers can be assured an article will be provided also in the future when calling the persistent link (DOI or URN) to the paper.