The JMED will provide free access to the archive of its electronic publications. If the JMED decides to discontinue its activity as a publisher, the JMED will make its best effort to transfer the electronic publication archive for long-term preservation to a trusted third party acceptable to the user community.
For the purposes of long term preservation, the JMED will review available technologies at appropriate intervals and perform digital migration of the content and associated information. The initial content information will be in the current standard format with suitable storage formats for figures, page images, and other information forms as they evolve. Digital migration to new formats will be performed when current formats are at risk of becoming obsolete or unsupported, or when new formats offer significant improvements in features with no loss of content. The JMED is responsible for the long-term preservation of journal articles and other materials stored within its archive. The JMED declines all responsibility for the long term preservation, replication, refreshment and repackaging of any electronic information disseminated to a consumer from the archive. In particular, the JMED has no responsibility for the maintenance of electronic collections of page images and for the maintenance of electronic offprints distributed to authors.