UK LOCKSS Alliance:Content Development

Adam Rusbridge (A.Rusbridge@ed.ac.uk)

EDINA, University of Edinburgh

10th May 2011

Content Development: Session Agenda

• NESLi2 and NESLi2-SMP Survey

• PEPRS

• Open Access Content

• Challenge of Content Testing

• Discussion

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UK LOCKSS Alliance

• The UK LOCKSS Alliance is a co-operative organization whose goal is to ensure continuing access to scholarly work in ways that are sustainable over the long term.

• Intention is to help UK institutions ensure coherent coverage– Preserve at-risk content in LOCKSS– Coordinate library demands to give JISC Collections greater negotiating leverage

with publishers

– How comprehensive should LOCKSS collections be?– Is it satisfactory if there are alternative preservation and post-cancellation access

sources?

NESLi2 and NESLi2-SMP Survey

• Limited resources available for content development – To date, UKLA Support has not catered for negotiation.– (technical support, programme coordination, software

development & content testing)

• Negotiating support was offered by JISC Collections at UKLA Steering Committee meeting in 2010– Requested that publisher demand was assessed– Coordinated demands gives JISC Collections greater negotiating

leverage with publishers

• NESLi2 and NESLi2-SMP Publishers were included– Although focus is on NESLi2-SMP Publishers

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NESLi2 and NESLi2-SMP Survey

• University of Birmingham

• De Montfort University

• Durham University

• The University of Edinburgh

• University of Glasgow

• University of Hertfordshire

• University of Huddersfield

• King's College London

• London School of Economics

• Newcastle University

• University of Oxford

• Open University

• Royal Holloway

• University of Salford

• University of St Andrews

• University of Sussex

• University of Warwick

• University of York

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Responses received from 18 institutions

NESLi2 Publishers

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NESLi2-SMP Publishers

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What happens next

• Key publishers:– Walter de Gruyter– Brill– Professional Engineering Publishing: now SAGE

* Thus PEP are now participating in LOCKSS

• JISC Collections to discuss at Licensing Strategy Group Meeting – NESLi2 publishers may present more difficult challenge, but sustained

pressure will help

• UK LOCKSS Alliance should develop Collection Development Policy– Rules for determining the content ‘in scope’– ‘Risk register’ to help prioritisation– Development work to preserve content

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PEPRS: Piloting an E-Journal Preservation Registry Service

• Who is doing what, and how do we know?

• PEPRS provides easily accessible information about inclusion of journals in preservation services

• Highlights those e-journals for which no arrangements exist.

• PEPRS is a monitoring tool for archival action

• Beta Release launched end of April 2011– With information from:– Portico, CLOCKSS Archive, Global LOCKSS Network, KB e-Depot, British

Library

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Original work that led to PEPRS

• Rightscom / Loughborough University, 2007

– Confirmed expressed need among libraries and policy makers

– Warned of potential burden on digital preservation agencies

– PEPRS has been developed in accordance with the recommendations of that report* an e-journals preservation registry should be built* UK Union Catalogue of Serials (SUNCAT)

or SHERPA (Open Access) get involved – SUNCAT is hosted and managed at EDINA

PEPRS Project Details

• Funded by JISC (Preservation Programme) – Phase 1 from August 2008 – July 2010– Phase 2 from August 2010 – July 2012

• Project Partners– EDINA, University of Edinburgh– ISSN International Centre, Paris

• Evaluation carried out by Charles Beagrie Limited for the JISC in February 2010

PEPRS Demo

• http://www.peprs.org

• De Gruyter

• Brill

• IOS Press

– What do we in UKLA regard as ‘at-risk’?– Use PEPRS to identify gaps in coverage

* Extract from PEPRS the set of publishers not participating in any initiative– Highlight ‘Open Access’ conditions in PEPRS?

• E-Depot progress with DOAJ content– International Journal of Poultry Science– Biology of Exercise– Choregia

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PEPRS: Example of Search Results

PEPRS: Example of Title-Level Detail

Open Access Content

• DOAJ and KB Pilot Project announced in 2009– Pilot to establish workflow to preserve open access journals

listed with DOAJ– Sample of OA journals preserved in e-Depot

– Long term archiving of DOAJ journals to become an integral part of DOAJ service

* DOAJ negotiates inclusion in e-Depot with OA publishers (Publisher was to ‘opt-out’)

* KB receive the content and normalised metadata from DOAJ* DOAJ content archived in the e-Depot will be available online under

an OA licence via the KB catalogue

– Initial inspection in PEPRS, does not seem as though comprehensive preservation occurred

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Challenge of Content Testing in LOCKSS

• Each ‘publishing platform’ needs a unique plugin– EmeraldInsight plugin– Open Journal System plugin– DrogoResearch plugin

* Small OA publishers need individual attention

• Test process is being redeveloped during 2011– Operate with new Linux platform – Simplify process to translate into more complete content ranges,

with greater title coverage

• May need to communicate more about release schedule– What content is ‘in progress’ – Hard as publishing platforms and priorities change

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Discussion Points

• How can PEPRS support UK LOCKSS Alliance activities?– To identify ‘at-risk’ content?

– What other functionality do you wish to see in place?

• How can we make better use of resources to negotiate more content?– Need to see follow through from the survey.

• How can the UKLA better support UK community priorities?– More frequent surveys to identify content?– ie. For open access content?

– How do you think we can improve the content development process?

– What do you think is missing?

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