Transcript Organizational Agreements for Collaboration

UK LOCKSS Alliance
Today’s scholarly content, secured for tomorrow
Adam Rusbridge
UK LOCKSS Alliance Coordinator
EDINA, University of Edinburgh
19th October 2011
JARVIG Workshop, London
Community Action for Assured Access
A co-operative organization whose goal is to ensure continuing access to scholarly
work in ways that are sustainable over the long term.
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UKLA is a social organization of library e-resources staff
17 member institutions
Steering Committee directs activity (next
meeting Nov 10)
De Montfort University
King’s College London
London School of Economics
Phil Adams (De Montfort University)
Natural History Museum
Lisa Cardy (London School of Economics)
Open University
Royal Holloway, University of London
Geoff Gilbert (University of Birmingham)
University of Birmingham
Tony Kidd (University of Glasgow)
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
University of Hertfordshire
University of Huddersfield
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
University of Oxford
University of Salford
Liz Stevenson (University of Edinburgh)
Lorraine Estelle (JISC Collections)
Peter Burnhill (EDINA)
Adam Rusbridge (EDINA)
University of St. Andrews
University of Warwick
University of York
Support Service at EDINA provides underlying coordination, support and development
JISC Collections organises membership subscriptions and gives support
JISC prompted the initial project led by the Digital Curation Centre (2006-08)
Community is actively involved
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Background to LOCKSS: Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe
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Libraries lease access to content, they no longer acquire content
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Libraries are outsourcing a key function - as memory organizations
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Libraries are subject to whatever these services wish to charge
LOCKSS technology is used by institutions that wish to have custody and control
over their scholarship
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Review has highlighted two distinct motivations for participation
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Short-term backup – LOCKSS is the only system that can provide this.
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Preservation, especially content from smaller publishers, where content may be
at greater risk – typically out of scope for other services
Annual face-to-face meetings to:
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Discuss LOCKSS, understand local needs, share information on e-journal
archiving landscape
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Staff not always with explicit preservation role, so F2F consistently well received
“It was an extremely useful day, and will help me to ensure that we get best value
from our LOCKSS membership.”
Libraries build local collections
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8090 participating titles (committed aggregate)
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487 participating publishers and societies
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eBooks coming in 2012 (Springer, European Respiratory Society,
Project Muse book program)
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NESLi2 and NESLi2-SMP survey in Spring 2011
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Working with JISC Collections on negotiation strategy
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Content to be targeted largely a policy decision;
technology can work with any publishing platform.
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Open Journal System includes support for LOCKSS.
The Keepers Registry will support title identification
Preservation of smaller publishers, where content may be at
greater risk – typically out of scope for other services
Libraries build local infrastructure
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Key questions to help shift to e-only and build trust.
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What have I preserved?
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How do I access it?
Export of holding information in KBART format
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What content is available to me?
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What content have I preserved?
Access to content when publisher not available
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Serials Solutions’ 360Link link resolver access to content
in final stages of testing
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Ex Libris’ SFX integration: http://vimeo.com/30661065
Future of the UK LOCKSS Alliance
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Universities directly benefit from institutional action
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Post-cancellation access as a backup mechanism
(independent supply from publishers)
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Digital preservation of important, at-risk content
(digital shelf)
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Private LOCKSS Networks for institutional collections
UK LOCKSS Alliance is the basis of community action by UK HE
library staff to ensure UK custody and control over the scholarship
that is generated and used by our faculty, students, and staff