Website archiving Abstracting/Indexing services/Self-archiving ensure the information that now exists in digital formats, backed up and distributed to guarantee continued access for the long term. The impact, the authors can create by archiving their OA journal articles are:

         Long-term availability and accessibility of research work to relevant audiences and readers. It helps minimize or eliminate the risk of digital decay of valuable information by preserving content for a long time. In a disaster, data retrieval from archive storage is easy. The authors can recover archived copies of their journals and make them accessible to the public if the original output is lost or removed from a publication.

         The more archives the authors join and submit their scholarly articles to, the higher the chances of their journal discovery and visibility. When articles are published, authors can self-archive the accepted manuscript on their website and in their funder or institutional repositories for public release. The authors retain the copyright to their articles. Therefore, they can SELF-ARCHIVE their accepted manuscripts as well as published manuscripts.

         There is no embargo on archiving articles published under the OPEN ACCESS category. The authors are allowed deposition of such articles on institutional, non-commercial repositories and personal websites immediately after publication on the journal website. This is done under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License CC-BY 4.0. All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted archiving, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the work is properly cited.