Preservation, Digital Technology and Culture

Preservation, Digital Technology and Culture is published by Walter de Gruyter. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Digital and Traditional Archives Management, Library Science and Information and Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation, together about 49.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal About this journalThe current volume of Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture is open access via Subscribe to Open (S2O). All accepted articles will be published under a Creative Commons license at no cost to authors. Learn more about De Gruyter Brill’s Subscribe to Open program.ObjectivePreservation, Digital Technology & Culture (PDT&C) is an international refereed journal of high scholarly standing that focuses on matters relating to the intersection of preservation and digital technology. Its scope is global, covering projects and practices of digital content preservation and curation from a wide variety of perspectives, including technological, social, economic, political, and user-centered viewpoints. The intended audiences for PDT&C are researchers, information special ists, educators, librarians, archivists, curators, and other cultural heritage professionals. The goal of the journal is to provide a timely forum for refereed articles, news, and field notes from around the world. In addition to featured refereed articles, PDT&C publishes news, commentaries, and posiion papers aligned with the journal’s objective. Further contributions include invited articles, editorials, and reviews of books, databases, and websites. High-quality col or illustrations add to thei nformative value of the content. All articles undergo a double-blind peer review process with at least two external peer reviewers.HistoryPreservation, Digital Technology & Culture (PDT&C) was formerly published as Microform & Digitization Review. The journal's backfiles can be found here.Digital preservation and curationDigitization of cultural he r itageCultural heritage informaticsEmerging technologies in archival, information, and library science< /li>Sustainability and long-term availability of digital heritageDigital archives, libraries, and repositoriesDigital collections management and preservation We are particularly interested in articles that touch upon the following areas, but the list is not exhaustive:Big/smart data approaches to preservation;Cultural heritage informatics, includ ing digital archives and libraries, and digital humanities;Community archiving and preservation of digital heritage;Use of digital technologies and cultural collections to empower Indigenous knowledge, decolonisation and identity;Convergence of libraries, archives, and museums through information technologies such as digitization and linked data;Creation, design, evaluation, and

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Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Conservation

Editor-in-chief Bogdan TrifunovićPublisher website

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

3LetPub · 2026-11-01

CiteScore (publisher)

3Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.42LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.46LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

16OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

27OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

2.77OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 20 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISSN

2195-2965

Print ISSN

2195-2957

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