Asia Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention MEDLINE/PubMed Listing and Solution to the PRESERVATION Issue

In April 2016, the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Preservation received an email from the chief of Bibliographic Services Division, National Library of Medicine, with a given deadline of October 2016 (later extended to Dec , 2016) to address the preservation of journal’s archive in a CRL certified repository service. The email was reporting on the status of APJCP’s compliance with MEDLINE/PubMed policy (the entire email is quoted for both transparency and documentation as exhibit 1). At the time, the preservation of huge number of published articles (8,082 papers) was seen as a major challenge and an impossible task to achieve with the then available resources (Moore, 2016a) and a decision was taken to cease acceptance of submissions (Moore, 2016b), pending resolution of this preservation Issue. Fortunately a new editorial team was established in Tehran to undertake the necessary measures. After a thorough evaluation of few available options, this team decided to partner with the PORTICO Repository Service to preserve its archive. The partnership was signed in July, 2016 and announced on August 16th, 2016. APJCP’s page is now up in PORTICO’s website and a certificate of preservation achievement was obtained from the PORTICO (exhibit number 2). In addition, as part of the same efforts, the new editorial team decided to utilize the PubMed Central’s (PMC) archiving and free availability of e-journals contents for its future issues and volumes. For this, a new infrastructure was developed enabling seamless production of PMC tagged XML’s. The journal now has passed the scientific and technical requirements for PubMed Central’s archiving and it is in the midst of signing agreement with PubMed Central authorities to have future issues archived in PubMed Central and be available as free PMC full text articles. More than four months since the preservation issue was EDITORIAL