Open Access and digital preservation policy

This journal follows the Open Access model, providing unrestricted virtual access (including financial restrictions) to all scientific texts published by the journal.

Open Access is the condition where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution - CC-BY) allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

This journal follows the standards established in the program of SciELO Program Digital Preservation Policy. The Revista Brasileira de Atividade Física & Saúde is concerned with long-term access to content. In the event of any server mishap, the digital files of the journal are preserved in the Cariniana Network, which uses the LOCKSS program. LOCKSS creates a distributed file system among participating libraries, allowing them to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.