Preservation

There are several priorities for long term preservation. They are listed and detailed below.

References used for citations etc..
After much discussion it was decided to use one server per journal and obtain the journals.ac.za domain. This will ensure that electronic references do not suffer from linkrot. Stellenbosch University is now the owner of the national journals.ac.za domain, which was officially registered with TENET.

Changes in Editorship
If the editor should change to another University, the system should be able to move without any change to the electronic references. It was decided to use virtual server technology to make the porting as simple as possible.
 * http://www.uksg.org/transfer UK Transfer Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers.

Disaster Recovery
At the moment backups are being done to two library servers. A LOCKSS system will also be put in place. The use of virtual server technology also allows us to make system snapshots.