Supporting further and higher education

UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme

Hazel Woodward

Cranfield University & JISC

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Why LOCKSS?

• Key area of work for JISC: assessment and development of services for continuing access to e-journals used by the community

• Need implementations of the archiving clauses in the Model Licence to guarantee continued access to purchased content

• LOCKSS is designed to run on inexpensive hardware and requires little ongoing effort to operate

• LOCKSS has the acceptance of many prominent academic publishers on the licensing and legal front

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Aims and Objectives

• To raise awareness of LOCKSS• To build up a self-sustaining base of LOCKSS

users in the UK by providing the libraries with the practical help to get started and to develop the skills needed to run their LOCKSS nodes beyond the Pilot.

• To preserve a major proportion of the e-journals in common use in the JISC community

• To allow the community to make an informed assessment of the desirability of future use of LOCKSS versus other alternatives

• To build a centre of expertise outside the US and benefit the international community

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Programme Components

• Focus on satisfying the conditions that must be met for LOCKSS-based archiving of specific e-journal titles:– the publisher has granted permission– the publishing platform for that particular title is supported by a

LOCKSS plug-in. – there is a critical mass of libraries (at least 6) that agree to

collect and preserve the titles

• Set up the LOCKSS Technical Support Service (LTSS)

• Undertake publisher negotiation & legal appraisal of the archiving clauses in the JISC Model Licence

• UK membership of the LOCKSS Alliance• Collection development – responsibilities of

participating libraries

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LOCKSS Technical Support Service (LTSS)

• Includes a LOCKSS Technical Support Officer (LTSO)

• Based at the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) at the University of Edinburgh

• Responsibilities of the LTSS include:– first line technical support– development of publisher specific plug-ins– organisation of training and awareness raising

events– coordination of surveys to identify non-NESLi2

content of common interest– Purchase and installation of LOCKSS hardware– Representation of UK libraries at LOCKSS Alliance

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Publisher Negotiation

• Two kinds of permission required from publishers:– online permission for the LOCKSS system to crawl

the content via a LOCKSS publisher manifest (a web page on the publisher’s website that contains a specific permission statement)

– legal permission to the librarians via language in licenses or terms and condition

• Undertaken by Content Complete Ltd• Focus on NESLi2 publishers who are not yet in

LOCKSS• Also non-NESLi publishers (to be identified by

participating libraries through survey)• Legal appraisal of the archiving clauses of JISC

Model Licence to allow for LOCKSS-based archiving

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Which NESLi2 publishers are in LOCKSS?

• Already in LOCKSS:– Annual Reviews– Blackwell (on LOCKSS board but waiting for market pressure)– Nature (on LOCKSS board but waiting for market pressure)– Project Muse– OUP– Science– British Medical Journal– Sage

• Not yet in LOCKSS:– AIP (in negotiation)– Elsevier – Cell Press– Taylor & Francis– Royal Society of Chemistry– American Chemical Society– British Psychological Society

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LOCKSS Alliance

• Collective UK membership to ensure UK priorities are factored into the US-led work and its future development

• Main benefits to the members include: members-only premium content; plug-in applications for different publishing platforms; and training & documentation

• Allows access to the expertise of the LOCKSS team and transfer of the knowledge and skills to the UK

• The UK HE will be represented at the Alliance via the LTSS

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Benefits to the Participating Libraries

• Able to own licensed content and reduced risk of losing back runs of e-journals when subscriptions are cancelled or when journals cease publication

• Be fully supported to get started with LOCKSS • Support in acquiring valuable skills in e-

journal collection management• Opportunity to work with other libraries and

become a part of an (international) community & to support each other

• Installed hardware with suitable configuration for LOCKSS nodes and guidance in operating LOCKSS

• Training and documentation