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Archival Research Series

A curated recovery program for under-archived student and early-career research, spanning Volumes 6–10 (January 2020 – December 2024).

Last updated: April 25, 2026

1. Purpose

A significant body of student and early-career research produced before widespread digital publishing was never formally archived or made globally accessible. Workshop papers, departmental monographs, and graduate theses circulated locally, were deposited in institutional cabinets, or lived only on personal hard drives — and gradually became invisible to the broader research community.

NEXARA's Archival Research Series is a deliberate effort to recover, digitize, and make discoverable a curated portion of this body of work, with full attribution and transparent editorial framing. The Series is editorially distinct from NEXARA's contemporaneous peer-reviewed publishing program (Volume 11 onward).

2. Scope

  • Coverage period: January 2020 through December 2024.
  • Volumes: 6 through 10 of the journal record.
  • Identifier prefix: All Archival Series entries carry an identifier beginning with NXR-A, distinguishing them from contemporaneous publications (which carry NXR-followed by a numeric ID).
  • Material types: Recovered student research, early-career manuscripts, departmental working papers, and lightly-circulated technical reports from the period.

3. Editorial Treatment

Archival Series entries undergo curatorial review, not contemporaneous peer review. Curatorial review focuses on legibility, completeness of metadata, preservation of original intent, and ethical fitness for republication. It is clearly labelled as such throughout the platform.

3.1 Where authors have been contacted

Entries are published as revised or annotated editions with the author's explicit consent. Edits, contextual annotations, and bibliographic updates are clearly attributed.

3.2 Where authors remain untraceable

Entries are published under archival principles with original metadata preserved as recovered, and an open, ongoing invitation for any named author or rightsholder to assert rights.

4. Rights-Assertion & Takedown Commitment

Any individual named in an Archival Series entry, any verified rightsholder, or any authorized representative may, at any time and without fee, request:

  • To assert authorship and have authorship attribution corrected or expanded;
  • To annotate the entry with corrections, additional context, or a current address;
  • To redact personally identifying details while retaining the scholarly content;
  • To request full removal (takedown) of the entry from the platform and its metadata feeds.

Submit a request

Email archives@nexarapublish.org with the entry identifier (e.g. NXR-A1042), your relationship to the work, and any supporting evidence you can share.

We commit to acknowledge every request within 10 business days and to honour verified takedown, correction, or annotation requests without challenge.

5. Distinction from Contemporaneous Peer Review

AspectArchival Series (Vol 6–10)Current Research (Vol 11+)
Editorial processCuratorial reviewDouble-blind peer review
Identifier prefixNXR-A…NXR-…
Reviewer countN/A (curatorial)2 independent reviewers
Author consent at submissionNot always available (recovered material)Always required
Article banner"Archival Series — Recovered Edition"No banner (default)
Citation typeArchival recordPeer-reviewed article

6. Licensing & Attribution

All Archival Series entries are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, identical to the licence applied to contemporaneous publications. Entries additionally carry an explicit "Archival Edition" notice in their metadata, on their article page, and in machine-readable feeds (OAI-PMH, DOAJ, JSON-LD) so that downstream harvesters and indexers can correctly classify the material.

Where original authorship is recorded with confidence, attribution is preserved exactly as recovered. Where authorship is uncertain, this uncertainty is noted in the entry and corrections are invited via the rights-assertion process above.

7. Good-Faith Principles

NEXARA undertakes to:

  • Never present an Archival Series entry as if it were a contemporaneously peer-reviewed publication;
  • Never refuse a verified rightsholder request for correction or removal;
  • Maintain a public log of any retractions or removals issued from the Series in accordance with COPE guidelines;
  • Apply the same data-protection standards (described in our Privacy Policy) to Archival Series records as to all other personal data we hold;
  • Periodically review the Series and welcome external feedback on its scope and curatorial standards.

8. Contact

Archival Series Desk — NEXARA Publications

Email: archives@nexarapublish.org

Postal: Power Is You Global Movement, The Estate, 8th Floor, Dickenson Road, Bengaluru — 560042, India