Archiving Commitment

The Bhutan Journal of Research and Development (BJRD) is committed to maintaining long-term access to its published content. The journal recognises that preservation of the scholarly record is an essential responsibility of academic publishing.

BJRD seeks to ensure that published articles, issue information, metadata, supplementary files, and post-publication notices remain accessible to readers, authors, researchers, institutions, and indexing or discovery services.

Content Preserved

BJRD aims to preserve the following materials:

• published articles in electronic format;
• issue metadata and table of contents;
• article metadata, including title, author information, abstracts, keywords, publication dates, and licence information;
• author metadata and affiliations where applicable;
• DOI or persistent identifier records where applicable;
• supplementary files, appendices, datasets, or additional materials published with articles;
• correction, retraction, withdrawal, and expression of concern notices; and
• other post-publication notices necessary to maintain the integrity of the scholarly record.

Digital Preservation

BJRD maintains published content through the official journal website and institutional digital records. The journal will seek recognised preservation services, institutional repository arrangements, library-based preservation mechanisms, or other reliable archiving services where available.

The purpose of digital preservation is to reduce the risk of content loss and to ensure continuing access to published scholarly materials in the event of website migration, technical failure, platform change, or journal system upgrade.

Institutional Records and Print Archives

As a journal published by the Royal University of Bhutan through the Office of the Vice Chancellor, BJRD may maintain published content through institutional records, print archives, and the Royal University of Bhutan library system.

Where print issues or institutional copies are produced, these may serve as additional preservation records alongside the journal’s electronic archive.

Post-publication Notices

Corrections, retractions, withdrawals, and expressions of concern must remain permanently available, linked to the affected article where possible, and preserved as part of the scholarly record.

Such notices must not be removed simply because they are unfavourable to the author, editor, journal, or institution. Their purpose is to preserve transparency and maintain the reliability of the published record.

Continuity of Access

BJRD will make reasonable efforts to ensure that readers continue to have access to published content through the official journal website or other institutional channels. If the journal changes website platform, server, domain, or publication system, BJRD should take steps to migrate published content and metadata accurately.

The journal should also ensure that indexing records, internal links, article files, issue files, and metadata remain as stable and accurate as reasonably possible after any technical migration or platform update.