UK LOCKSS Alliance: Content Development

Adam Rusbridge ( [email protected]

) EDINA, University of Edinburgh 10 th May 2011

Content Development: Session Agenda

• • • • • NESLi2 and NESLi2-SMP Survey PEPRS Open Access Content Challenge of Content Testing Discussion

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UK LOCKSS Alliance

• The UK LOCKSS Alliance is 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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• Intention is to help UK institutions ensure coherent coverage – Preserve at-risk content in LOCKSS – Coordinate library demands to give JISC Collections greater negotiating leverage with publishers – How comprehensive should LOCKSS collections be?

– Is it satisfactory if there are alternative preservation and post cancellation access sources?

NESLi2 and NESLi2-SMP Survey

• Limited resources available for content development – To date, UKLA Support has not catered for negotiation.

– (technical support, programme coordination, software development & content testing) • Negotiating support was offered by JISC Collections at UKLA Steering Committee meeting in 2010 – Requested that publisher demand was assessed – Coordinated demands gives JISC Collections greater negotiating leverage with publishers • NESLi2 and NESLi2-SMP Publishers were included – Although focus is on NESLi2-SMP Publishers

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NESLi2 and NESLi2-SMP Survey

Responses received from 18 institutions • • • • • • • • • University of Birmingham De Montfort University Durham University The University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield King's College London London School of Economics • • • • • • • • • Newcastle University University of Oxford Open University Royal Holloway University of Salford University of St Andrews University of Sussex University of Warwick University of York

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NESLi2 Publishers

20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Not interested in content from this publisher Interested in content from this publisher

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NESLi2-SMP Publishers

20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Not interested in content from this publisher Interested in content from this publisher

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What happens next

• • Key publishers: – Walter de Gruyter – Brill – Professional Engineering Publishing: now SAGE * Thus PEP are now participating in LOCKSS JISC Collections to discuss at Licensing Strategy Group Meeting – NESLi2 publishers may present more difficult challenge, but sustained pressure will help • UK LOCKSS Alliance should develop Collection Development Policy – Rules for determining the content ‘in scope’ – ‘Risk register’ to help prioritisation – Development work to preserve content

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PEPRS: Piloting an E-Journal Preservation Registry Service • • • Who is doing what, and how do we know?

PEPRS provides easily accessible information about inclusion of journals in preservation services Highlights those e-journals for which no arrangements exist.

• • PEPRS is a monitoring tool for archival action Beta Release launched end of April 2011 – With information from: – Portico, CLOCKSS Archive, Global LOCKSS Network, KB e-Depot, British Library

Original work that led to PEPRS

• Rightscom / Loughborough University, 2007 – Confirmed expressed need among libraries and policy makers – Warned of potential burden on digital preservation agencies – PEPRS has been developed in accordance with the recommendations of that report * 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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PEPRS Project Details

• • • Funded by JISC (Preservation Programme) – Phase 1 from August 2008 – July 2010 – Phase 2 from August 2010 – July 2012 Project Partners – EDINA, University of Edinburgh – ISSN International Centre, Paris Evaluation carried out by Charles Beagrie Limited for the JISC in February 2010

PEPRS Demo

• • • • http://www.peprs.org

De Gruyter Brill IOS Press • – What do we in UKLA regard as ‘at-risk’?

– Use PEPRS to identify gaps in coverage * Extract from PEPRS the set of publishers not participating in any initiative – Highlight ‘Open Access’ conditions in PEPRS?

E-Depot progress with DOAJ content – International Journal of Poultry Science – Biology of Exercise – Choregia

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PEPRS: Example of Search Results

PEPRS: Example of Title-Level Detail

Open Access Content

• DOAJ and KB Pilot Project announced in 2009 – Pilot to establish workflow to preserve open access journals listed with DOAJ – Sample of OA journals preserved in e-Depot – Long term archiving of DOAJ journals to become an integral part of DOAJ service * DOAJ negotiates inclusion in e-Depot with OA publishers (Publisher was to ‘opt-out’) * KB receive the content and normalised metadata from DOAJ * DOAJ content archived in the e-Depot will be available online under an OA licence via the KB catalogue – Initial inspection in PEPRS, does not seem as though comprehensive preservation occurred

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Challenge of Content Testing in LOCKSS

• Each ‘publishing platform’ needs a unique plugin – EmeraldInsight plugin – Open Journal System plugin – DrogoResearch plugin * Small OA publishers need individual attention • Test process is being redeveloped during 2011 – Operate with new Linux platform – Simplify process to translate into more complete content ranges, with greater title coverage • May need to communicate more about release schedule – What content is ‘in progress’ – Hard as publishing platforms and priorities change

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Discussion Points

• • • How can PEPRS support UK LOCKSS Alliance activities?

– To identify ‘at-risk’ content?

– What other functionality do you wish to see in place?

How can we make better use of resources to negotiate more content?

– Need to see follow through from the survey.

How can the UKLA better support UK community priorities?

– More frequent surveys to identify content?

– ie. For open access content?

– How do you think we can improve the content development process?

– What do you think is missing?

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