This policy sets out the principles applied by ReCoDD with regard to digital archiving, identification of publications, discoverability and scientific indexing.
1. Archiving policy
ReCoDD ensures the long-term preservation of its scientific publications. The final published version (PDF) of each article is the version of record: it remains available at a stable address, linked to the volume, issue and year of publication, and identified by a DOI.
- Backups: the database and the website files are backed up regularly, both on the server and off the server.
- Crossref: the metadata of each article (title, authors, abstracts, references, licence, full-text address) are registered with Crossref; the DOI continues to lead to the text even if the website address changes.
- Internet Archive: the article pages and PDFs are archived in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine (archive.org), a public copy independent of the journal’s website.
- Harvesting: the metadata are openly exposed through the OAI-PMH protocol (https://leseditionsuac.com/oai), which allows open repositories and scientific search engines to keep a copy.
Authors may deposit the published version of their article (the journal’s PDF) in an institutional or subject repository, in an open archive (HAL, Zenodo, etc.) or on their academic web page, immediately upon publication and without embargo, provided that they cite the full reference and the DOI of the article in ReCoDD, in accordance with the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence.
2. Persistent identification of publications
ReCoDD uses standardised mechanisms to ensure the long-term identification of its publications.
Every published article receives a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), a permanent identifier that facilitates its citation, indexing and access in digital scientific systems.
The journal follows Crossref standards for the registration and management of DOIs and for the structured transmission of bibliographic metadata.
ReCoDD also holds ISSNs that identify it as a scientific serial publication.
Authors are encouraged to provide their ORCID iD in order to improve the identification of their work and to avoid confusion between researchers with similar names.
3. Indexing and discoverability policy
ReCoDD’s indexing policy aims to improve the visibility, discoverability and citation of the articles it publishes. Each article is described by standardised, machine-readable metadata:
- Highwire Press bibliographic tags (read by Google Scholar), Dublin Core and schema.org on each article page;
- a complete Crossref deposit (abstracts in French and English, bibliographic references, licence, link to the PDF), reused by OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Dimensions and The Lens;
- an OAI-PMH repository in Dublin Core format, compliant with the OpenAIRE guidelines: https://leseditionsuac.com/oai;
- an RSS feed of articles with PRISM metadata (tables of contents): https://leseditionsuac.com/revue-scientifique/flux.xml;
- an XML sitemap submitted to search engines, with the French and English versions of each page.
On this basis, ReCoDD is progressively applying to the discovery services and bibliographic databases relevant to its field: Google Scholar, BASE, OpenAIRE, CORE, DOAJ, AJOL (African Journals OnLine), JournalTOCs and Sherpa Romeo, and then, as the journal matures, to selective international databases.
Inclusion of the journal or of its articles in a platform nevertheless depends on that platform’s own evaluation procedures and rules. ReCoDD only displays the indexing it has actually obtained and uses no unrecognised impact metrics.
4. Corrections and retractions
ReCoDD attaches particular importance to the integrity of the published scientific record. When a significant error is found after publication, the journal may publish a correction, an erratum, a corrigendum or, where necessary, a retraction.
In the latter case, the essential bibliographic information may be retained so that the status of the document remains identifiable in scientific systems.
5. ReCoDD’s commitments
ReCoDD undertakes to:
- preserve its publications over the long term;
- maintain reliable and structured metadata;
- ensure the stability of DOIs and links;
- promote interoperability with scientific infrastructures;
- progressively improve the international visibility of its articles;
- communicate transparently about the actual status of its indexing.
For ReCoDD, publishing a scientific article means ensuring not only that it is made available, but also its traceability, visibility, preservation and long-term accessibility.