Presentation from EDINA Serials Forum, March 2014 - London/Edinburgh, given by Fred Guy and Adam Rusbridge

1. 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 Remote access
Licence to ‘use’

4. 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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5. The Keepers
The ke
The Keepers
(Archiving Agencies)
To the rescue

6. The Keepers – contributing to The Keepers Registry
National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences

7. 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 -

10. Extent
Status
Codes 5 Keepers
Search

11. 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

12. 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

13. ‘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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14. Gap of Dunloe, Ireland
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How to bridge the gap?

16. How can the infrastructure be sustained?
Publishers Keepers Keepers Registry
Services

17. 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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18. Cornell and Columbia Mellon funded project

19. Cornell/Columbia Mellon Project
• Project Goals
The 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.

20. 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 Spotlight
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151629417409416&set=a.201854474415.162850.152916769415&type=1
&theater

21. References
1. Generating Actionable Evidence on E-journal Activity
http://thekeepers.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2013/10/28/generating-
actionable-evidence-on-e-journal-archiving/
2. Cornell/Columbia Mellon project
https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/culpublic/Strategies+for
+Expanding+E-Journal+Preservation