The Employee Relations Law Journal (Empl. Relat. Law J.) is committed to ensuring the long-term accessibility, authenticity, and integrity of its scholarly content. The journal maintains digital preservation practices designed to protect published articles and ensure that the scholarly record remains accessible to readers and researchers over time.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Published articles are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) where applicable. DOI assignment provides a persistent and unique identifier for each published article and facilitates reliable citation, discovery, and long-term access.

The DOI remains associated with the article even if the journal website or article location changes.

Digital Formats

Published articles are preserved in stable digital formats, including PDF and XML, where applicable. These formats support long-term accessibility, readability, indexing, archiving, and preservation of the published scholarly record.

The journal aims to maintain the accuracy and integrity of the preserved versions and to ensure that important article metadata remains associated with the archived content.

Secure Digital Repositories

The journal maintains and/or utilizes secure digital repositories and appropriate archiving services to preserve published content. Preservation copies are maintained independently of the journal's primary website where feasible to reduce the risk of permanent loss resulting from technical failures, website disruption, or changes in publishing infrastructure.

Long-Term Accessibility

The journal seeks to ensure that published articles remain accessible to readers, researchers, libraries, and other authorized users for the long term.

Where changes to the journal's website, publishing platform, or technical infrastructure occur, reasonable measures will be taken to preserve the accessibility and integrity of previously published content.

Archiving and Repository Services

The journal may use recognized digital preservation and archiving services, repositories, or archival platforms to maintain copies of published articles and associated metadata.

Where the journal uses Archive.com or another designated archival service, published content may be deposited or preserved in accordance with the service's technical requirements and applicable preservation practices.

Version Control

The journal aims to maintain a clear and reliable version of the published scholarly record. Where corrections, retractions, or other post-publication changes are necessary, the journal will follow its applicable editorial policies and clearly identify such changes.

Corrected or updated records will be appropriately linked to the original publication where feasible to maintain transparency and citation integrity.

Preservation of Metadata

Article metadata, including article title, author information, publication details, abstract, keywords, DOI, and citation information, will be preserved where applicable to support discoverability, indexing, and long-term scholarly access.

Responsibility for Preservation

The Editorial Office is responsible for maintaining appropriate digital preservation practices and reviewing preservation arrangements periodically. The journal may update its preservation methods as technology, indexing requirements, and recognized scholarly publishing standards develop.

Commitment to the Scholarly Record

The Employee Relations Law Journal recognizes digital preservation as an essential component of responsible scholarly publishing. Through DOI assignment, stable digital formats such as PDF and XML, and secure digital archiving, the journal seeks to protect the integrity and long-term availability of its published research.