Open Journal Systems supports the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to ensure a secure and permanent archive for the journal. LOCKSS is open source software developed at Stanford University Library that enables libraries to preserve selected web journals by regularly polling registered journal websites for newly published content and archiving it. Each archive is continually validated against other library caches, and if content is found to be corrupted or lost, the other caches or the journal is used to restore it.

English Language Teaching Prima Journal (ELT) allows authors to retain versions of their work. All articles published in the English Language Teaching Prima Journal (ELT) are stored in the Garuda Portal repository.

Definitions

[These definitions are based on the SHERPA/RoMEO website].

This policy applies to preprints, postprints, and publisher's versions of articles.

A preprint is a work in progress: a contribution that has not yet been accepted, or may not even have been submitted, to the journal, created by the prospective author to receive comments and criticism from others.

A postprint is the author's contribution version after peer review and accepted for publication, with revisions completed.

The publisher's version is the PDF file of the author's contribution as it appears in the journal.

Policy

English Language Teaching Prima Journal (ELT) encourages authors to post preprints and postprints of their contributions in temporary locations, such as personal websites, or other public repository servers until the publisher's version is available.

Authors may post the publisher's version of their contributions to their institution's repository or other repositories of their choice as soon as the version is available. When posting the publisher's version, authors must include the following note:

Published as [provide the full bibliographic citation as it appears in the print version of the English Language Teaching Prima Journal (ELT)] with a link to the article URL or DOI.

License

Authors must comply with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License when storing preprints, postprints, and the publisher's version.