Archiving Policy

ACADEMIA Tech Frontiers Journal (ATFJ)
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ATFJ is committed to democratizing access to cutting-edge research in technology, applied sciences, and engineering disciplines. All articles published in ATFJ are freely available online, without subscription or paywall, reflecting our core values of knowledge equity, academic freedom, and technological advancement.

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All content is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows:

✅ Reading, downloading, and non-commercial sharing of full articles
✅ Proper attribution when content is reused
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This ensures broad reach while maintaining the originality and academic credibility of the published research.

????️ Open Archiving and Digital Preservation

ATFJ ensures permanent accessibility and long-term preservation of its scholarly content. All published articles are archived in secure and reliable repositories, including:

  • Institutional repositories of affiliated universities

  • Disciplinary archives relevant to engineering, computer science, and technology (e.g., arXiv, TechRxiv)

  • Trusted digital preservation networks, such as:

    • PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN)

    • LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)

    • CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS)

These archiving strategies guarantee content availability regardless of platform evolution or system failures.

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ATFJ encourages authors to make their work more discoverable through self-archiving in compliance with green open access principles.

✅ Permissible Versions for Deposit:

  • Preprint: Before peer review

  • Postprint: After peer review, before publication layout

  • Publisher’s Final PDF: As provided by ATFJ

✅ Approved Self-Archiving Platforms:

  • Author’s personal or institutional website

  • University digital repositories

  • Scholarly networks (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu)

  • Disciplinary preprint servers (e.g., arXiv, SSRN)

❗ No additional permission is required for self-archiving—just include a full citation and link to the published version on the ATFJ website.

⚖️ Compliance and Ethical Assurance

ATFJ follows established scholarly publishing ethics and transparency protocols in line with:

  • COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)

  • HEC (Higher Education Commission of Pakistan) guidelines

  • DOAJ, CrossRef, and other global indexing frameworks

We uphold:

  • Transparent, double-blind peer review

  • Full conflict of interest disclosures

  • Strict authorship and data integrity standards

By implementing this archiving policy, ATFJ guarantees the permanence, accessibility, and trustworthiness of scholarly content in rapidly evolving fields of technology and engineering.