Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy

Language Teaching Research Quarterly (LTRQ) is committed to maintaining the long-term accessibility, integrity, and discoverability of the scholarly record it publishes. Because LTRQ is an open access journal, published articles are intended to remain freely accessible online without subscription barriers.

 

Open Access and Licensing

LTRQ publishes its articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This licence permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the published work in any medium or format, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source, a link to the licence is provided, and any modifications are indicated. The applicable licence and copyright information are displayed with each published article.

 

Journal and Publisher Archiving

LTRQ maintains an electronic archive of its published content through the EUROKD website. Published articles are retained as part of the journal's scholarly record and are intended to remain accessible through the journal's online archive. LTRQ also uses Internet Archive (archive.org) and other appropriate web-archiving arrangements, where applicable, to provide additional access to previously published journal content. The journal's abstracting and indexing services enhance the discoverability and accessibility of published articles and their metadata. However, indexing and abstracting services are not considered substitutes for the journal's primary archiving and digital-preservation arrangements. LTRQ will make reasonable efforts to maintain the continuity of access to its published content and to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record in the event of changes to the journal's website, publishing platform, or management.

 

Author Self-Archiving and Scholarly Sharing

Authors retain the ability to share their published LTRQ articles in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 licence and applicable journal and publisher policies.

Authors may deposit and share their published articles through:

• institutional and university repositories;
• subject or disciplinary repositories, where applicable;
• personal or professional websites; and
• academic sharing platforms such as ResearchGate, Academia, and SSRN, subject to the terms and policies of those platforms.

 

Authors are encouraged to retain a copy of the final published version of their article for deposit in an appropriate institutional or subject repository.

 

Preservation of the Scholarly Record

LTRQ regards the preservation of published articles as an essential component of responsible scholarly publishing. The journal will make reasonable efforts to ensure that published content, including the article text, bibliographic information, and associated scholarly materials, remains identifiable and accessible over time.

 

Where an article requires a correction, expression of concern, or retraction, the original publication record will not be improperly removed solely to conceal the publication history. Instead, the journal will maintain an appropriate editorial record and clearly identify the relevant post-publication action in accordance with its publication-ethics and correction/retraction policies.

 

Commitment to Long-Term Access

LTRQ will periodically review its archiving and digital-preservation arrangements and will seek to strengthen them as appropriate. Any substantial change affecting the long-term accessibility of the journal's published content will be addressed with the objective of protecting authors' work and preserving the continuity and integrity of the scholarly record.