1. 1 Keeping stuff safe: how can libraries maintain their e-journal collections in the long-term? Richard Gartner King's College London International conference on Electronic Publishing University of Pune 14 March 2013

2. 2 E-only scholarly journals: overcoming the barriers (JISC report, November 2010)

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5. 5 looking under the hood Preservation Status of e-Resources: A Potential Crisis in Electronic Journal Preservation CNI Forum, December 20 11 Oya Y. Rieger AUL for Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services Cornell University Library Robert Wolven AUL for Bibliographic Services and Collection Development, Columbia University Libraries/Information Services

6. 6 Yet as the creation and use of digital information accelerate, responsibility for preservation is diffuse, and the responsible parties … have been slow to identify and invest in the necessary infrastructure to ensure that the published scholarly record represented in electronic formats remains intact over the long-term. Urgent Action Needed to Preserve Scholarly Electronic Journals, Donald J. Waters et al., 2005

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9. 9 139 participating publishers 718 partner libraries 12,381 e-journal titles 123,586 e-book titles -Cornell study

10. 10 Portico provides access to its library participants when specific conditions or “trigger events” occur, which cause journal titles to no longer be available from the publisher or any other source:  When a publisher ceases operations and titles are no longer available from any other source  When a publisher ceases to publish and offer a title, and it is not offered by another publisher or entity  When back issues are removed from a publisher’s offering and are not available elsewhere  Upon catastrophic failure by a publisher’s delivery platform for a sustained period of time

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15. 15 LOCKSS functions  Ingest from target websites using a web crawler  Preservation by continually comparing the content it has collected with the same content collected by other LOCKSS users, and repairing any differences.  Delivery via web proxy, cache or via Metadata resolvers when the publisher’s website is not available.  Management through a web interface that allows librarians to select new content for preservation, monitor the content being preserved and control access to the preserved content.  Migration to new formats as needed for display.

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19. 19 Columbia/Cornell Study LOCKSS only:3.9% Portico only:14.5% LOCKSS and Portico: 7.6% Not necessarily same holdings Total coverage:26.1% of titles “Only 13% (or 15%) of Cornell’s and Columbia’s e-journals are currently being preserved.”

20. 20 Columbia/Cornell Study Only surface understanding of the preservation strategy and its implications No formal process in place for identification of e-journals for preservation consideration LOCKSS is currently being used for dark archiving Lack of organizational leadership to bring together related parties from collections, IT, and scholarly communication teams

21. 21 Conclusions  Libraries must address the issue of the long-term preservation of e-journals and other e-published content  The LOCKSS peer-to-peer model offers a robust way to do this  Libraries should consider establishing their own LOCKSS system, or collaborating with others to establish private LOCKSS networks  Fully integrate this preservation strategy into collection management operations and ensure a high-level manager is in charge of implementing it

22. 22 Thank you! Any questions? richard.gartner@kcl.ac.uk