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Libraries are facing increasing space pressures and funding constraints. There is a growing interest in wherever possible moving more rapidly to e-only provision to help alleviate these pressures as well as to provide new electronic services to users.
One of the most cited barriers and concerns both from library and faculty staff to moving to e-only has been sustaining and assuring long-term access to electronic content.
The aim of this white paper is to help universities and libraries implement policies and procedures in relation to e-journal archiving which can help support the move towards e-only provision of scholarly journals across the HE sector. The white paper is also contributing to complementary work JISC and other funders are commissioning on moving towards e-only provision of Journals.
This draft is now available for consultation and comment from the wider community during October and November 2010. Comments on JISC Press will be accepted on the draft up until Friday 12th November 2010.
Those who would prefer to email their comments can do so by sending an email to Neil Grindley (n.grindley@jisc.ac.uk), with a CC to Neil Beagrie (neil@beagrie.com).
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Charles Beagrie Limited
Libraries are facing increasing space pressures and funding constraints. There is a growing interest in wherever possible moving more rapidly to e-only provision to help alleviate these pressures as well as to provide new electronic services to users. One of the most cited barriers and concerns both from library and faculty staff to moving to e-only has been sustaining and assuring long-term access to electronic content. The aim of this white paper is to help universities and libraries imp [...]
The white paper complements and references other advice and guidance available from JISC on e-journal archiving. In particular JISC Collections published in February 2010 a practical guide to e-journal solutions (JISC Collections 2010), which gives a detailed and impartial evaluation of the UK LOCKSS Alliance, CLOCKSS and Portico. These solutions are mentioned in the white paper but readers are referred to the guide for further information on them. The white paper therefore is primarily focus [...]
A number of initiatives and reports in the last ten years have addressed the question of e-journal archiving, and JISC has been active in this area, commissioning work through the JISC Digital Preservation Programme. Notable elements of that work include: the UK LOCKSS Alliance[1]; A Review and Analysis of the CLIR e-Journal Archiving Survey[2]; the e-Journal Registry Scoping Study[3]; A Comparative Study of e-Journal Archiving Solutions[4]; the Piloting an e-Journal Preservation Registry Servic [...]
A major incentive for institutions to invest in e-journal archiving has been achieving cost and service benefits which arise from moving to electronic copies of journals. Broadly these fall into two complementary parallel areas: the benefits arising from transitioning from print or print+electronic to electronic-only for current journal licensing; and benefits arising from the purchase or licensing of past electronic issues and/or retro-digitised versions of historic print journals. For libra [...]
University libraries are still at a relatively early stage in the move to e-only and in terms of experience and emerging best practice in specification and use of e-journal archiving and continuing access. However there is emerging god practice in this area. We have provided four case studies (sections 7-10) illustrating practice and experience in four different institutions or consortial collaborations in the UK. From these and other relevant publications (Cooper and Norris 2007, JISC 2008 [...]
JISC, 2008, Digital Preservation Policies Study, Neil Beagrie, Najla Rettberg, Peter Williams, and Richard Wright http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/jiscpolicyfinalreport.aspx CEPA - Cambridge Economic Policy Associates, 2008, Activities, costs and funding flows in the scholarly communications system in the UK, (Research Information Network May 2008) http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/Activites-costs-flows-report.pdf Ruth Cooper and David Norris, 2007, To bin [...]
7.1. Introduction The university is a member of the UK LOCKSS Alliance and a subscriber to Portico preservation service via SHEDL. It is included as a case study for large research universities interested in subscribing to e-journal preservation services and transitioning towards e-only journal provision. The university has 15000 undergraduates, almost 5000 postgraduates and 5000 adults in continuing education. Its annual research income of more than £116million places G [...]
8.1. Introduction The university is a member of the UK LOCKSS Alliance and a subscriber to Portico preservation service. It is included as a case study for small to medium sized teaching and research universities interested in subscribing to e-journal preservation services and transitioning towards e-only journal provision. The university has a strong ethos of widening participation: of the 24,000 students, 7,500 are part-time, 57% are female, 68% are mature students and [...]
9.1. Introduction LSE is a member of the UK LOCKSS Alliance and a subscriber to Portico preservation service. It is included as a case study for a specialist research university interested in subscribing to e-journal preservation services. LSE ‘s research and teaching span the full breadth of the social sciences, from economics, politics and law to sociology, anthropology, accounting and finance. In 2008/09, it had 8,700 full-time students and over 800 part-time student [...]
10.1. Introduction For a number of years, university libraries in Scotland have been looking for ways to obtain access to electronic information resources as widely and economically as possible over the whole sector. This search has grown more pressing since the establishment of ‘research pools’, groupings of researchers from different institutions which the Scottish Funding Council for colleges and universities has brought together, in order to form a critical mass to c [...]