Information For Librarians

The journal welcomes collaboration with academic, institutional, and research librarians in support of scholarly communication, open access dissemination, and long-term preservation of research outputs.

1. Journal Access and Availability
The journal is an open access publication. All articles are freely available online without subscription, registration, or access fees. No embargo periods apply. Articles are accessible immediately upon publication.

2. Licensing and Reuse
All published articles are distributed under a Creative Commons licence. Librarians may include catalogue, and link to journal content in institutional repositories, discovery systems and library guides, provided proper attribution is maintained. 

3. Archiving and Preservation
The journal supports long-term digital preservation through recognised archiving services (e.g., LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, or equivalent preservation networks). Librarians are encouraged to rely on these preservation mechanisms for assurance of content continuity.

4. Metadata and Indexing
Article metadata, including titles, abstracts, keywords, author affiliations, and DOIs (where applicable), may be freely harvested for indexing, cataloguing, and discovery services. The journal supports interoperability standards to facilitate metadata harvesting by library systems.

5. Institutional Repository Inclusion
Librarians may archive the published version or accepted manuscript of articles in institutional repositories in accordance with the journal’s Archiving Policy. No prior permission is required, provided the journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication and the DOI is included.