Archiving Policy

Archiving Policy

Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, as the publisher of the Pandecta Research Law Journal, supports the open access journal model and permits the self-archiving of accepted and published manuscripts. Authors publishing with Pandecta agree to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. Under this license, authors may archive the preprint, accepted manuscript (post-print), or publisher's version/PDF in personal or institutional repositories and libraries without requiring further permission from the journal or publisher.

Authors of articles published in Pandecta Research Law Journal may deposit their accepted manuscripts or the version of record (published article) in institutional and/or centrally organized repositories. These materials may be made publicly available immediately upon acceptance or publication, as applicable, provided that Pandecta Research Law Journal and its publisher, Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, are acknowledged as the original place of publication and the correct citation details are supplied.

Self-Archiving of Accepted Manuscripts
Upon acceptance of a manuscript, authors who make the accepted article publicly available should include the following statement:

This article has been accepted for publication in Pandecta Research Law Journal, published by Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

Archiving of Published Articles
Authors may make their published articles publicly available immediately after publication in repositories, libraries, or on personal websites without obtaining additional permission from the journal, provided that they:

  • Deposit the PDF version of the published article.

  • Include the URL or DOI of the article as published on the Pandecta Research Law Journal website.

  • Cite the journal name and Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang as the publisher.

  • Provide the correct bibliographic citation details.

Digital Archiving and Preservation
To support the long-term preservation of published scholarly content, Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang identifies digital archiving and repository preservation as important components of its open access publishing model. The journal's preservation arrangements should ensure that published content remains accessible to the scholarly community in the event of journal discontinuation or accidental data loss.

The following services and repositories are relevant to the journal's archiving and preservation framework:

  • SHERPA/RoMEO (Open Policy Finder)
    A resource for information about journal and publisher open access and self-archiving policies.
    View SHERPA/RoMEO information →

  • LOCKSS
    A digital preservation system utilized by Pandecta to support the long-term availability and distributed archiving of journal content.

  • UNNES Repository
    The institutional repository associated with Universitas Negeri Semarang.
    Visit UNNES Repository →

The journal's metadata may be made available to recognized repository services and indexing crawlers to facilitate discovery, access, and preservation of scholarly records.

Pandecta Research Law Journal Archiving Commitment:
Authors may self-archive their manuscripts in accordance with this policy, provided that the original publication in Pandecta Research Law Journal is properly acknowledged and complete citation information is included. Long-term digital preservation arrangements are transparently identified and maintained through the journal's integration with LOCKSS and institutional repositories.