Editorial Board

Editor in Chief

Dr. Mirzi Llego-Betasolo, Ph.D TM, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Papua New Guinea

Professor Ahmad Sana, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Papua New Guinea

Dr. Alak Kumar Patra, FIE, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Papua New Guinea

Editors:

Dr. Daniel D. Dasig, Jr., Ph.D, FRIRes, FRICompE, University of Makati, Philippines

Prof. Daniel Ugih Echoh, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Prof. Sandeep Prusty, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India

Prof. Ronald L. Orale, Ph.D. TM, Samar State University, Philippines

Dr. Albert Uchena Ude, Ph.D., Botswana International University of Science & Technology (BIUST) Botswana

Dr. Joseph T. Foley, Ph.D., Reykjavik University, Iceland

Publishing Policies

Editorial definition

Title: Global Journal of Civil Engineering

ISSN electronic edition: 2523-9597

Frequency: annual

Date created: 2017

Publisher: School of Civil Engineering, Papua New Guinea University of Technology

Rights and licensing

Publication in an open-access

Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0

Copyrights: The author retains unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights

Repository

Turnitin

SSRN

Zenodo

Researchgate

Google Scholar

Publication costs

Publication fees: no

Submission fees: no

Archiving Policy

Archiving & Digital Preservation Policy

1. Purpose of the Policy

The Archiving & Digital Preservation Policy ensures the long-term availability, integrity, accessibility, and preservation of all scholarly content published by the Global Journal of Civil Engineering (GJCE). The policy supports global dissemination, research continuity, and compliance with international indexing standards such as DOAJ and Scopus.

2. Archiving Strategy

GJCE employs a multi-layered archiving strategy, combining internal preservation, external repositories, and third-party preservation services. This ensures that all published content remains accessible even in the event of technical failure or discontinuation of operations.

2.1 Internal Archiving (Local & Server Backups)

• All published articles, metadata, editorial files, and supplementary materials are stored on the journal’s secure editorial server.

• Automatic server-level backups occur daily, with retention copies stored:

o On mirrored cloud storage.

o In an offline backup drive maintained by the Journal’s Technical Editor.

• All PDF, XML, and HTML files are preserved in their original format indefinitely.

3. External Archiving & Preservation Systems

3.1 Internet Archive (Web Archive)

GJCE content is periodically crawled and archived by the Internet Archive, ensuring long-term access to all published issues even if the journal website becomes unavailable.

3.2 LOCKSS / CLOCKSS (Planned Integration)

The journal intends to participate in:

• LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)

• CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS)

to enable institutional repositories to store distributed, authenticated copies of the journal’s published content.

3.3 Institutional Repositories

Authors are encouraged to deposit preprints, accepted manuscripts, and final published articles into:

• Their institutional repositories

• Subject repositories (e.g., Engineering Village, ResearchGate, Academia, etc.)

All deposits must include citation metadata linking to the published version.

4. Publisher Archiving Responsibilities

GJCE, as the publisher, is responsible for:

• Maintaining permanent access to all published content.

• Ensuring files remain accessible even if:

o The journal ceases publication,

o Ownership changes,

o The website migrates to a different platform.

If the journal is discontinued, the entire archive will remain publicly accessible through permanent repositories.

5. Article-Level Preservation

Each article is preserved in multiple formats:

• PDF (primary preservation format)

• XML/HTML (structured metadata and web-readable formats)

• Supplementary files (datasets, drawings, models, codes, images)

Digital object identifiers (DOIs) guarantee persistent linking and long-term retrievability.

6. Open Access and Long-Term Availability

All journal content is published under an open access model, with no access restrictions.

Archived content remains freely accessible without embargo.

7. Metadata Preservation

Structured metadata following international standards is preserved, including:

• DOI

• Authors

• ORCID IDs

• Affiliation

• Keywords

• Abstract

• References

Metadata is stored both on the journal’s servers and deposited to Crossref for long-term discoverability.

8. Disaster Recovery

In the event of system failure, data breach, or cyberattack:

• Backup servers allow immediate restoration of the journal website.

• Offline backup copies ensure no loss of published content.

• Recovery procedures follow the publisher’s ICT and cyber-security protocols.

9. Policy Review

This policy is reviewed annually to maintain alignment with best practices in scholarly communication, digital preservation, and indexing requirements.