Securing continuing access to e-journal content – EDINA Services

Fred Guy & Adam Rusbridge

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Securing continuing access to e-journal content: how EDINA’s

services can help

EDINA SERIALS FORUM

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PRINT JOURNALS

Subscription & ownership

Cambridge UL National Library of Scotland

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E-JOURNALS

Subscriptions

Library website Hosting websites

Current access

Long term access ?

Remote access

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Licence to ‘use’

Providing long term access

• Print journals– purchased materials held in libraries and national libraries with legal deposit legislation (since 1662 in England) retain material

• Electronic –Libraries do not ‘own’ the material. They have a licence to ‘use’. Who, then, is (or should be) responsible for long term access?

Publishers, subscription agents, national libraries?

There is legal deposit legislation in UK (passed April 2013) but it is quite restrictive (need to make a visit to one of the national libraries).

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The KeepersThe ke

The Keepers(Archiving Agencies)

To the rescue

The Keepers – contributing to The Keepers Registry

National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Keepers Registry: finding out what the keepers are doing

http/

eg. Portico

eg. CLOCKSS

Library

Knowing which e-journals are being preserved (and the extent) and by whom helps to inform decision making in managing collections.

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The Keepers Registry – key facts

• Aggregation of metadata supplied by a number of archiving agencies (10 at present)

• This metadata :– Describes a journal (title, ISSN, publisher)– Identifies the agency which is archiving the journal– Provides information on which volumes of the journal

have been preserved• The project started as PEPRS 1(August 2008 – July 2010);

Phase 2 (August 2010 – July 2012); Phase 3 October 2012 – July 2013)

• Funded by Jisc• ISSN International Centre, Paris, is a partner providing the

ISSN Register• PEPRS Beta service April 2011 – September 2011• The Keepers Registry October 2011 -

ExtentStatus Codes 5 Keepers

Search

Title comparison service

• Provides information about whether or not titles are in an archiving programme

• Allows uploading of large number of titles for the comparison

• Uploaded titles are compared with the titles in the Keepers Registry

• Results can be viewed online and a report is supplied

Key role of Jisc in e-journal preservation

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• Sponsoring reports Scoping study for a registry of electronic journals that indicates

where they are archived . Rightscom & Loughborough University. 2008

• Encouraging discussion JARVIG – e-Journals ARchiVing Interest Group. Preparation of a plan

with KR at the heart.

• Funding development work PEPRS & the Keepers Registry; the Keepers Extra Project

‘At-risk’ titles

• ….two-thirds (36,326) of the online titles regarded as of some value by researchers and students in the UK are seemingly ‘at risk of loss’.

Peter Burnhill. Generating Actionable Evidence on E-journal Archiving. The Keepers Registry Blog Post. October 2013.

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Gap of Dunloe, Ireland

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How to bridge the gap?

How can the infrastructure be sustained?

Publishers Keepers Keepers Registry

Services

The Keepers Extra

• Two year funding from Jisc (March 2014 – February 2016)

– Ensure that the current platform for the Keepers Registry is fit-for-purpose and as future-proof as possible

– Ensure technical integration with other emerging standards and protocols

– Ensure focus of work is intelligently co-ordinated with other emerging related initiatives

– Build capacity and capability within the community to understand and exploit the value of archived journal material

– Design an international governance, oversight outreach and advocacy framework

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Cornell and Columbia Mellon funded project

Cornell/Columbia Mellon Project

• Project GoalsThe project aims to identify priority

content from the perspective of the research library community and make significant progress towards increasing the number and extent of e-journal archiving by major preservation programs.

Acknowledgements

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Images from Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/

•Bookshelves - jvoss

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvoss/55540713

•Cambridge University Library – Steve Cadman

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/2353585565

•National Library of Scotland – Sawa

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sawak/310362068

•Licence – Seattle Municipal Archives

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/6277315476/

•Telescope

http://www.flickr.com/photos/unloveable/2423303716/

•Vaults – Chris Arnold

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wka/4283285201/

•Gap of Dunloe - Chris Blanar

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisblanar/470973962/

•Forth Road Bridge – Edinburgh Spotlighthttp://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151629417409416&set=a.201854474415.162850.152916769415&type=1&theater

References

1. Generating Actionable Evidence on E-journal Activityhttp://thekeepers.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2013/10/28/generating-

actionable-evidence-on-e-journal-archiving/2. Cornell/Columbia Mellon projecthttps://confluence.cornell.edu/display/culpublic/

Strategies+for+Expanding+E-Journal+Preservation