Bank and Policy

The Bank and Policy Journal (BPJ) is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, integrity, accessibility, and discoverability of the scholarly record. The journal implements a sustainable digital preservation policy to ensure that all published content remains permanently available to researchers, libraries, indexing services, and the global academic community.

All articles are published in Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License and are immediately and permanently accessible through the journal's official website without registration, subscription, or access restrictions.

Digital Preservation

The publisher employs secure web-hosting infrastructure, routine server backups, redundant storage procedures, and continuous monitoring to preserve the integrity and availability of all published content. These preservation measures are designed to minimise the risk of data loss and ensure the continuity of the scholarly record.

The journal permits digital preservation through LOCKSS-compatible archiving systems where implemented by participating libraries, repositories, and preservation networks, supporting the internationally recognised principle of "Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS)."

Published articles remain permanently available through the journal website and are removed only in exceptional circumstances, including legal requirements, formal retractions, or serious breaches of publication ethics, in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Discoverability and Scholarly Dissemination

To maximise the visibility, accessibility, and scholarly impact of published research, the journal supports broad dissemination through academic discovery services, institutional repositories, library catalogues, and recognised scholarly preservation platforms.

• Google Scholar
• Internet Archive (Archive.org)
• Institutional Repositories
• University Digital Repositories
• National Research Repositories
• Academic Library Discovery Services
• Other recognised scholarly indexing, harvesting, and preservation services

The dissemination of published content across multiple discovery services improves research visibility, citation potential, and long-term scholarly accessibility.

Self-Archiving Policy

The Bank and Policy Journal fully supports the principles of Open Science and permits immediate self-archiving without embargo. Authors may deposit any version of their manuscript, including the final published Version of Record (Publisher PDF), in appropriate scholarly repositories.

Authors may archive their work in:

• Institutional repositories
• University repositories
• National repositories
• Personal websites
• Departmental websites
• Research project websites
• Preprint servers
• Postprint repositories
• Non-commercial academic sharing platforms

Archived copies should include:

• Full article title
• Author name(s)
• Complete journal citation
• Digital Object Identifier (DOI), where assigned
• A link to the official journal webpage

The journal imposes no embargo period on self-archiving and encourages the widest possible dissemination of published research.

Permanent Availability

The publisher is committed to maintaining the permanent availability of all published content. Continuous website maintenance, secure hosting infrastructure, routine archival backups, and digital preservation practices are employed to ensure uninterrupted public access to the scholarly record.

This policy reflects internationally recognised standards of scholarly publishing and supports the long-term preservation, accessibility, integrity, discoverability, and citation of published research.