1. UK LOCKSS Alliance
Member’s Briefing
Adam Rusbridge
EDINA, University of Edinburgh
October 2009
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2. Open Access Week
• Central to UK LOCKSS Alliance, and CLOCKSS, is access.
• 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.
• Access to content is central component of licenses
– Secure continuing access to scholarly content within license
terms
– Where possible, taking steps to encourage Open Access
* LOCKSS is building local collections, but Open Access and
Creative Commons license allows greater freedom for use.
* For CLOCKSS, Open Access following release is integral.
3. The Developing Environment
• UKLOCKSS and CLOCKSS separate payment from access and put
libraries in control.
– UKLOCKSS is all about you, your collections, your scholars.
– CLOCKSS is a global initiative where you have influence on the global
stage.
• Together, the two initiatives ensure all publishers are covered,
both large and small.
• They ensure that content is in your custody and control
– locally with UKLOCKSS; globally with CLOCKSS.
• Open access ensures that libraries are the benefactor
– Where not possible, secure continuing access as entitlement of
subscription
• Governance model allows libraries to take active leadership
– locally, nationally and internationally
4. UK LOCKSS Alliance: Transition to Service
• Nascent organisation needs time to develop
• Activity driven by members, collectively
– Economic and cooperative benefits
– EDINA and JISC Collections supporting the initiative
• Introducing an approach for governance and participation
– Focused on establishing the correct model for the UK
• UK LOCKSS fits into wider national activity
– CLOCKSS
– Piloting An E-Journals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS)
– Pilot for Ensuring Continuity of Access via NESLi2 (PECAN)
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5. Awareness and Best Practice still needed
• Uncertainty about best practice and strategy
– ALPSP publisher survey report indicates demand
for industry-wide working group modeled on
Project TRANSFER or Project COUNTER
– Stakeholders map out future development plans
– http://www.alpsp.org/ForceDownload.asp?id=882
• Collaboration among UK activities a good
first step towards clarity.
6. Development
• New member of LOCKSS team
– Dimitrios Sferopoulos
– d.sferopoulos@ed.ac.uk
• Improve resources, stability and knowledge
• Working on:
– Metadata Extraction for OpenURL link resolvers
– Content Processing
7. UKLA Communication
• Member web area
– Steering Committee reports
– Archive of documentation and reports
• Webcast for December
– Date to be announced
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8. UK LOCKSS Alliance Institutions
• University of • Leicester University
Birmingham
• London School of
• University of Bristol Economics
• De Montfort University • University of Newcastle
• Durham University Upon Tyne
• Edinburgh University • University of Sussex
• Glasgow University • University of St Andrews
• University of • University of Warwick
Huddersfield
• University of York
• University of Hull
• King's College London
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10. Content Development
• New publishers
– Taylor and Francis
* Began development earlier this year
* LOCKSS web pages now being tested
* About to begin plugin development
* Hope to release content by end of 2009
– Emerald Publishing Group
* Publisher development near completion
* Plugin has been developed
* Content is in testing
– Springer in development
* Responding to library demands
• Preparing further releases for:
– Annual Reviews
– Oxford University Press
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11. At-Risk Content
• NOW AVAILABLE: Pain Reviews (Hodder Arnold)
• LOCKSS negotiated Creative Commons Open Access
License
* OA content stays freely available
* ANYONE can re-publish content
* Content can be moved from one archive to another without
permission from publisher
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12. At-Risk Content
• DrogoResearch
– LOCKSS negotiated content out from behind pay-wall
* “8th July 2009: from today you no longer need to login to the Journal
to view whole articles”
– LOCKSS negotiated Creative Commons Open Access
License
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13. At-Risk Content
• ICTHES World Care
– In contact with editors at two journals
– Summer board meetings: discuss LOCKSS / OA
policy
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14. • Thank you for your attention
• Adam Rusbridge
– A.Rusbridge@ed.ac.uk
– http://www.edina.ac.uk/lockss
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