Data Sharing and Digital Archiving Policy

1. Data Sharing and Reproducibility Policy

Prestress Technology is dedicated to fostering transparency, reproducibility, and openness in scientific research. The journal encourages authors to share the data, materials, and methods underlying their published findings whenever possible and appropriate.

Data Availability Statement: All manuscripts must contain a Data Availability Statement outlining how the supporting data can be accessed. Acceptable statements include:

• Open Access Data: "The data supporting the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at [DOI or URL]."
• Data Available Upon Request: "The data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request."
• Restricted Access: "The data are not publicly available due to [reason, e.g., ethical, legal, or confidentiality restrictions]."
• No Data Generated: "No new data were created or analyzed in this study."

Recommended Repositories: Authors are encouraged to deposit data in discipline-specific, institutional, or general repositories. Recommended options include Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad, and the Open Science Framework (OSF). For computational scripts or code, GitHub (with a DOI via Zenodo) is also accepted.

Citing Data: When datasets are used or created, they must be formally cited in the reference list using the appropriate citation format.

Reproducibility: Authors must provide sufficient methodological detail to allow replication of the results.

2. Digital Archiving Policy

Prestress Technology is committed to the long-term preservation of its published content. We employ multiple strategies for digital archiving:

• Official Website Archive: Full texts of all articles are permanently stored on our journal website, with daily backups maintained by our host institution.
• DOAJ Certification: As a journal indexed in DOAJ, we adhere to its digital archiving requirements, which provides a foundational guarantee for the long-term accessibility of our content.
• CrossRef/DOI: Every article is registered with a CrossRef Digital Object Identifier (DOI), ensuring stable and permanent linking and citability even if the journal's URL changes.
• CLOCKSS Archive: To further enhance the robustness of our archiving, we have initiated the application and evaluation process to join the CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) global digital preservation network. Upon acceptance, our content will be securely preserved and backed up on servers across 12 geographically distributed nodes worldwide.

Back Issue Accessibility: All past issues of the journal are permanently accessible on the journal's website.

DOI Registration: Every published article is assigned a DOI registered with CrossRef.

Metadata Preservation: Article metadata is preserved and made available to indexing services.