Finding out about the preservation of e journals: an overview of the PEPRS project Fred Guy, EDINA, University of Edinburgh UKSG Conference 2011, 4 th – 6 th April 2011, Harrogate, Yorkshire

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Statistics related to e-journals

Online availability of journals by discipline

120.0% 100.0% 80.0% 60.0% 40.0% 20.0% 0.0% 82.6% 92.7% 96.1% Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Science, Technology and Medicine 2003 2005 2008 105.0% 100.0% 95.0% 90.0% 85.0% 80.0%

Average percentage of titles online by publisher size

SMALL MEDIUM LARGE 2005 2008

Downloads in UK universities and colleges

120,000,000 100,000,000 80,000,000 60,000,000 40,000,000 20,000,000 0 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 1200000 1000000 800000 600000 400000 200000 0

Downloads of SHEDL content in Scottish universities

2007 2008 2009 3 RIN.

E-only scholarly journals: overcoming the barriers

. November 2010.

Print – key aspects

• • • Once purchased is owned by the library and can be retained, transferred to remote store or disposed of when library determines this Library can check if other libraries hold the material and it can be consulted on the premises or be available via Inter-Library loan Likely that it will be available in a national library via legal deposit legislation (goes back to 17 th century in UK)

E-journals: key aspects

• • • • • Libraries are licensed for usage – do not host the material Control lies with the publisher rather than with the subscriber Publishers are not a constant in the life of a journal– titles are often transferred between publishers Publishers may decide that they do not want to host back material Legislation for legal deposit is not yet in place in UK and many other countries

Why a Preservation Registry?

• • • Many schemes emerging to meet challenge But who is doing what? – How can libraries & policy-makers assess which e-journals are being archived, by what methods, and under what terms of access?

JISC commissioned a scoping study for an e-journals preservation registry – the idea had been mentioned in the literature

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Scoping Study for a Registry

Scoping Study Report Precedes PEPRS • Rightscom / Loughborough University, 2007 – Confirmed expressed need among libraries and policy makers – Warned of potential burden on digital preservation agencies – Recommended: * an e-journals preservation registry should be built * UK Union Catalogue of Serials (SUNCAT) or SHERPA (Open Access) get involved – SUNCAT is hosted and managed at EDINA

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PROJECT DETAILS

• • • • Phase 1 funded by JISC (Preservation Programme) from August 2008 – July 2010 EDINA, University of Edinburgh, grant recipient Project partner – ISSN International Centre, Paris Evaluation carried out by Charles Beagrie Limited for the JISC in February 2010

Digital Preservation Agencies in the Pilot

* Two 3 rd Party Organisations –

CLOCKSS

( Controlled Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) –

Portico

* Two National Libraries (c.f. legal deposit) –

British Library (BL)

British Library e-Journal Digital Archive –

Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB

e-Depot

)

KB, National Library of the Netherlands * One library cooperative –

UK LOCKSS (

Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe)

Alliance

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The Agencies - LOCKSS

• LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), based at Stanford University Libraries, is an international community initiative that provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so that they can easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copies of authorized e-content.

The Agencies - CLOCKSS

• CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a not for profit joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community.

The Agencies - Portico

• Portico provides libraries and publishers with a reliable, cost-effective solution to one of the most critical challenges facing the scholarly community today—ensuring that the electronic resources you rely on everyday will be accessible to future researchers, scholars, and students.

The Agencies – e-Depot

• • The e-Depot is a digital archiving environment that ensures long-term access to digital objects.

e-Depot is based at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague

The Agencies – British Library

• The BL preserves digital content that is collected but also material that is created, such as digitised collections. The store is an important component for forthcoming e Legal Deposit.

What is in the vaults?

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Agency metadata Agency metadata Agency metadata

PEPRS

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Creating the PEPRS database

Agency data

PEPRS ISSN-L + p-ISSN & e-ISSN Register metadata Agency metadata ISSNs ISSN Register

Open Source components used in PEPRS Component User interface Database: metadata hosted by PEPRS Harvester Software choice Apache::ASP http://www.apache-asp.org/ Zebra http://www.indexdata.dk/zebra/ Custom Perl and CPAN packages Comment Offers fast and easy development and is extremely flexible Provides structured text indexing and retrieval. Fast and scales well. Provides powerful and flexible text retrieval capabilities. Data files will be collected using FTP and HTTP. Normalisation Z39.50 support in Perl Custom Perl and CPAN packages including MARC::Record http://search.cpan.org/~gmcharlt/ MARC-Record-2.0.2/ ZOOM http://zoom.z3950.org/api/ Each preservation agency supplies custom data at the moment, so scripts will be created for each data source. ISSN data is in MARC21 format and will be processed using MARC::Record CPAN package Abstract Perl API supporting search and retrieval. Based on YAZ toolkit.

Beta service demonstration

• Beta service

PEPRS Phase 2

• • • • Funding provided from August 2010 – July 2012 Beta service – end of April 2011 www.peprs.org

/ Full service –2012 Involve international users in testing

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Forthcoming functionality in 2011

• • • Browsing Advanced searching features Machine to machine (for comparison work) and for OpenURL operations

PEPRS Phase 2: key stages

Activity Aug 10 Dec 10 Apr-11 Aug-11 Dec-11 Apr-12 Aug-12

Set up team of testers User testing and feedback Beta service preparation Beta service operation Beta service – additional functionality Full service Advisory group on governance Governance in operation ?

ISSN issues

• • • • • ISSNs missing in some agency records and some not in ISSN Register Some duplicate records Some p-ISSNs used as e-ISSNs Some p-ISSNs linked via a common ISSN-L to a number of e-ISSNs but which one is correct?

Some were incorrect

Holdings information - variation

e-Depot

: Preserved: v. 1 - 36, 38 - 46.

UK LOCKSS Alliance

: Preserved: v. 42 45. In progress: v. 46, 47.

Portico

: Preserved: (2002-2009) v.40, v.41, v.42, v.43, v.44, v.45, v.46, v.47

.

Terms used by preservation agencies

No action

: The agency has no relationship with this title at present. (

or is it best simply not to mention your agency with regard to this title?)

Committed

: the publisher has agreed that the agency may preserve the title but the ingest process has not yet begun.

Queued

: Publisher technical work is complete, but the preservation agency has not yet processed the title

CLOCKSS LOCKSS √ √ √ Archived

: The title has been ingested into the archive

Available for Library Archiving

: The title has been made available for preservation by a library, subject to a library’s subscription rights.

√ √ e-Depot √ √ Portico √ BL √ √

(with qualifications)

√

(use term with different meaning) √ √

Involvement with international initiatives • Print Archives Program of the Center for Research Libraries – “

CRL is working with consortial partners to plan a prototype print archives framework to link existing print archiving efforts. has developed a searchable Print Archives Registry of information about print-archiving initiatives, including:

– Projects – Serial Holdings

.

• HATHITrust – “….

is committed to preserving the intellectual content and in many cases the exact appearance and layout of materials digitized for deposit. HathiTrust stores and preserves metadata detailing the sequence of files for the digital object” .

PEPRS: Further information and Contact details

Project website http://edina.ac.uk/projects/peprs/index.html

Beta service – to be available by 29 th April

http://www.peprs.org/

Fred Guy, EDINA, University of Edinburgh [email protected]