Presentation given at KB+ event by Robbie Ireland in Glasgow, 16th September 2015

1. SafeNet: progress and data gathering
KB+ event, Glasgow, September 2015

2. SafeNet is…
• 2 year Jisc funded project
• ‘Service in development’
SafeNet aims to…
• Improve assured continuity of access to e-journal
content paid for by HE institutions in the UK

3. Benefits

4. Components
• Entitlement registry
– Holds actionable entitlement data about
subscription data for an institution.
• Private LOCKSS network
– Centrally managed version of LOCKSS, no need to
run a server locally, provides assurance that paid
for content will be available.

5. Access Nodes: Co-Located Nodes:
Institution
Publisher
Node 3
Node 4
Node 5
Node 6
Entitlement
Registry
Development of
plugins & processing
content
Agreement to deposit
content
Publisher trusts library
assertions but has access
to a challenge and dispute
mechanism
Invested in the SafeNet Project
and resulting service.
Responsible for Publisher
negotiations.
LOCKSS @ Stanford
Access to content is
subject to defined
trigger conditions
Core Service Components
Private LOCKSS Network
SafeNet Service
Metadata
Full-Text
Content
Development and Operational
Management of Entitlement
Registry & Service Interface
Operational Management of the
SafeNet Service
Node 1
Service Interface
EDINA
Node 2
Authentication
OpenURL
Routing
Jisc
Library supplies
entitlements
Co-Located Nodes provide
resilience.
Node Agreement defines
Responsibilities
Node hosts
SafeNet Project
funding
agreement
The Publisher
Participation
Agreement describes
the overall SafeNet
service, including:
• Deposit/harvest of
content
• Conditions resulting
in supply of Post
Cancellation Access

6. Data gathering
• Main aim: empower libraries.
• Minimise duplication of work.
• Focus on what it is libraries believe they are
entitled to and explore the most effective ways of
gathering this.
• Working with Jisc Collections and KB+
• Assistance on data gathering from Leeds,
Cambridge, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Bolton, UEA,
LSE.
• We want more!

7. What we’re asking
• Collaboration with libraries to explore their
range of subscriptions and any challenges
these present.
• Data that libraries have available and their
confidence levels in these sources to make
assertions.
• How time consuming data gathering may be,
what stage in your existing workflow an
entitlement registry would be useful.

8. Thank you
For more information please get in touch:
edina@ed.ac.uk