The journal Education in the 21st Century enforces a rigorous infrastructural mandate for the long-term digital preservation of its scholarly corpus. To guarantee the permanent accessibility and unalterable integrity of all published research, the journal deploys a multi-tiered archiving strategy:

1. Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network (PKP PN)

The journal systematically archives its content via the PKP Preservation Network. This decentralized digital archive guarantees that the journal's metadata and full texts are cryptographically distributed across multiple sovereign nodes, ensuring robust, permanent restoration capabilities in the event of catastrophic systemic failure.

2. LOCKSS Distributed Archiving

The journal incorporates the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) distributed archiving framework. This peer-to-peer network empowers participating academic libraries globally to cultivate and maintain definitive, permanent archives of the journal for exhaustive preservation and restoration purposes.

3. Institutional and State Archiving

Beyond global distributed networks, the complete digital repository is meticulously preserved within the foundational academic servers of Yerevan State University and is systematically submitted to the National Library of Armenia for statutory, long-term state preservation.

4. Author Self-Archiving Mandate

In absolute alignment with open-access protocols, authors are explicitly authorized and actively encouraged to systematically deposit the final publisher-formatted PDF (Version of Record) of their manuscripts in institutional, thematic, or national digital repositories immediately upon formal publication, devoid of any embargo period. Such deposits must structurally incorporate a definitive citation of the primary source, utilizing the permanent Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to ensure precise bibliographic tracking.