Open Access and Digital Preservation Policy

PHILIA. International Journal of Ancient Mediterranean Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal committed to the free and unrestricted dissemination of scientific knowledge. The journal provides immediate open access to all of its online content, allowing users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles without requesting prior permission from the publisher or the author(s), provided that proper attribution is given.

The Open Access policy of PHILIA is fully aligned with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) principles. All articles published in PHILIA are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This license permits all users to copy, share, and redistribute the articles, data sets, figures, and supplementary materials published in the journal on any platform, provided that appropriate credit is given to the author(s), the article title, the journal citation, and the DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

All authors who publish in PHILIA retain the copyright of their work but accept the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license upon the publication of their article.

Since 2019, PHILIA has been assigning a DOI to every published article, ensuring its scientific content's permanent identification, traceability, and citability.

As of 2024, PHILIA has adopted a hybrid publication model. All articles continue to be published online as open access and are freely available on the journal’s official website (https://philiajournal.com/). In addition to its online open access policy, the print version of the journal is published and distributed by Phoibos Verlag (Vienna) and is available for purchase. This model aims to maximize both the global accessibility of academic research through open access and the preservation of the journal’s printed tradition.

PHILIA is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, and integrity of all published content through a combination of technical strategies and participation in international preservation networks. These include:

  • Regular and secure backups of all digital content hosted on its servers.

  • Continuous monitoring of technological developments to manage potential migrations from obsolete formats or software.

  • Implementation of standardized preservation metadata.

  • DOI assignment for all articles since 2019 to facilitate permanent access.

Furthermore, PHILIA is part of the Public Knowledge Project’s Private LOCKSS Network (PKP-PLN). This decentralized archiving system, maintained by a consortium of collaborating libraries, guarantees the long-term preservation of the original published content and ensures its recovery in case of data loss or technological failure. A list of journal issues currently preserved in the PKP-PLN is publicly available.

The journal’s digital preservation policy is periodically reviewed and updated by the Editorial Board to ensure compliance with international standards and best practices in scholarly publishing.