Colombia Médica deposits the articles that it publishes in multiple digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation.
These archives include:
- PubMed Central (United States)
- SciELO
- Redalyc
Colombia Médica makes article metadata available in compliance with Open Archives Initiative protocols, enabling automated 'harvesting' of our research articles for inclusion in any other digital archives. We support non-exclusive digital archiving of research articles by as many international archives as possible, to ensure the security and permanent accessibility of that research.
Colombia Médica is a participant in the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) initiative. LOCKSS will enable any library to maintain their own archive of content from Colombia Médica and other publishers, with minimal technical effort and using cheaply available hardware.
To facilitate data mining research, the full-text XML of all Colombia Médica open access research articles is available for ftp download as a ZIP archive.