Keeping stuff safe: how can libraries maintain their e-journal collections in the long-term?
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Keeping stuff safe: how can libraries maintain their e-journal collections in the
long-term?
Richard GartnerKing's College London
International conference on Electronic PublishingUniversity of Pune
14 March 2013
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E-only scholarly journals: overcoming the barriers (JISC report, November 2010)
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E-only scholarly journals: overcoming the barriers (JISC report, November 2010)
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E-only scholarly journals: overcoming the barriers (JISC report, November 2010)
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looking under the hood
Preservation Status of e-Resources:A Potential Crisis in Electronic Journal Preservation
CNI Forum, December 2011
Oya Y. RiegerAUL for Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services
Cornell University Library
Robert WolvenAUL for Bibliographic Services and Collection Development,
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
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Yet as the creation and use of digital information accelerate, responsibility for preservation is diffuse, and the responsible parties … have been slow to identify and invest in the necessary infrastructure to ensure that the published scholarly record represented in electronic formats remains intact over the long-term.
Urgent Action Needed to Preserve Scholarly Electronic Journals , Donald J. Waters et al., 2005
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139 participating publishers718 partner libraries12,381 e-journal titles123,586 e-book titles
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Portico provides access to its library participants when specific conditions or “trigger events” occur, which cause journal titles to no longer be available from the publisher or any other source:
When a publisher ceases operations and titles are no longer available from any other source
When a publisher ceases to publish and offer a title, and it is not offered by another publisher or entity
When back issues are removed from a publisher’s offering and are not available elsewhere
Upon catastrophic failure by a publisher’s delivery platform for a sustained period of time
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LOCKSS functions
Ingest from target websites using a web crawler
Preservation by continually comparing the content it has collected with the same content collected by other LOCKSS users, and repairing any differences.
Delivery via web proxy, cache or via Metadata resolvers when the publisher’s website is not available.
Management through a web interface that allows librarians to select new content for preservation, monitor the content being preserved and control access to the preserved content.
Migration to new formats as needed for display.
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Columbia/Cornell Study
LOCKSS only: 3.9%
Portico only: 14.5%
LOCKSS and Portico: 7.6%Not necessarily same holdings
Total coverage: 26.1% of titles
“Only 13% (or 15%) of Cornell’s and Columbia’s e-journals are currently being preserved.”
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Columbia/Cornell Study
Only surface understanding of the preservation strategy and its implications
No formal process in place for identification of e-journals for preservation consideration
LOCKSS is currently being used for dark archiving
Lack of organizational leadership to bring together related parties from collections, IT, and scholarly communication teams
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Conclusions
Libraries must address the issue of the long-term preservation of e-journals and other e-published content
The LOCKSS peer-to-peer model offers a robust way to do this
Libraries should consider establishing their own LOCKSS system, or collaborating with others to establish private LOCKSS networks
Fully integrate this preservation strategy into collection management operations and ensure a high-level manager is in charge of implementing it
