UKLA Content Development

UK LOCKSS Alliance: Content Development Adam Rusbridge ( [email_address] ) 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

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 .
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?

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

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
Responses received from 18 institutions

NESLi2 Publishers

NESLi2-SMP Publishers

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

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

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

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

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

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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