The document discusses the challenges and responsibilities of digitally archiving e-journals and other scholarly resources, emphasizing the need for continuity of access and stewardship by libraries. It highlights the role of various archiving organizations and the statistics related to the archival status of online serials, including the percentage of titles being actively archived. The importance of international collaboration and the economic viability of archival strategies is also stressed to ensure the preservation of scholarly heritage.

1. Taking A Long View
Peter Burnhill
EDINA, University of Edinburgh
09:40 – 10:00
Taking The Long View: International Perspectives on E-Journal Archiving
Edinburgh 7th September 2015

2. what was once available in print,
on-shelf locally …
… is now online & accessed
remotely,
‘anytime/anywhere’
We’ve seen improved Ease of Access…
But what of
Continuity of Access?
(this is mostly due to publishers)

3. Digital back copy is not in the custody of libraries
Picture credit: http://somanybooksblog.com/2009/03/27/library-tour/
Libraries boast of ‘e-collections’,
but do they only have ‘e-connections’?

4. to ensure
researchers, students & their teachers have
ease and continuing access
to online resources needed for scholarship
licence
to use
access
to content & tools
Our Shared Task is
Stewardship: delegated responsibility to care for or improve over time

5. “The Scholarly
Record has a
fuzzy edge”
‘e-journals’
Websites,
Databases,
Repositories
‘book-length work’
‘Gov Docs’
Limit Scope: The (digital) Scholarly Record
conference proceedings
‘e-magazines’
‘e-newsmedia’
‘data as findings’
Widen scope: + Resources Needed for Scholarship
e-theses
e-methods: software

6. Online
Continuing
Resources
Issued in Parts
‘Serials’
Content changes over time
‘Integrating’
‘e-journals’
Websites,
Databases,
Repositories
‘Gov Docs’
Practical focus today on what is identified
as issued online as a ‘continuing resource’
Conference
proceedings
‘e-magazines’
‘e-newsmedia’
Stewardship
for a significant
part of our
‘Published
Heritage’
E-theses
The wider scope
includes the
‘web-resident’:
Web Archiving
& Reference Rot

7. National Science Library,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
All Hail The Keepers: offering digital shelving
① Web-scale not-for-profit archiving agencies:
② National libraries …
① Research libraries: consortia & specialist centres …
National Science Library,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

8. Many archiving organisations a Good Thing 
“Digital information is best preserved by replicating it at
multiple archives run by autonomous organizations”
B. Cooper and H. Garcia-Molina (2002)
Bad stuff will happen!
But how do we know
who is keeping what?

9. thekeepers.org as Global Monitor
… to discover who is looking after what
ISSN-L as kernel field

10. Streams of issued content being archived?
The Keepers Registry reports titles ‘ingested &
archived’ by at least 1 ‘keeper’:
16,558 In 2011
21,557 in 2013
28,507 as at August 2015
* More archiving & more knowledge as more archives
report into Registry!
More ISSN assigned
35,000 in 2009
100,000 in 2012
169,000 in 2015

11. Two Key Statistics: Ingested / Identified
‘Ingest Ratio’ = titles ingested by one or more Keeper
/ total ‘online serials’ in ISSN Register
= 28,507 / 169,634 [as of August 2015]
=> 17%
‘KeepSafe Ratio’ = titles being ingested by 3+ Keepers
/ total ‘online serials’ in ISSN Register
= 10,019 / 169,634
=> 6%

12. Archival Status of what Libraries List (USA)
‘Ingest Ratio’ = 22% to 28% about a quarter
=> fate of c.75% unknown
In 2011/12 three major research libraries in the USA
checked archival status of serial titles regarded as important
P. Burnhill (2013) Tales from The Keepers Registry: Serial Issues About Archiving & the Web. Serials Review 39 (1), 3–20.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098791313000178, &https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6682
Every library
can now
do this
via
Members
Area in
the Keepers
Registry

13. with usage logs from the UK OpenURL Router
• 53,311 online titles requested in UK during 2012
3 years later, in 2015:
‘Ingest Ratio’ = 36% (19,231/53,311)
=> fate of 34,080 titles unknown
‘KeepSafe Ratio’ = 20% (10,847/53,311)
Archival Status of what Users Request (UK)

14. 15
%age of 165,949 ISSN assigned to ‘e’ (July 2015)
US: 19%
Rest of World:
c. 50%
Canada 5%UK: 9%
Brazil: 4%
Ger: 6%
Fra: 7%
Researchers (& libraries) in any one country depend on content
written & published as serials in countries other than their own
169,634

15. Known Archival Status of Online Continuing Resources
(assigned ISSN) by Country, July 2015
More archiving
&
More
knowledge
as more
ISSN assigned
&
more archives
report into
Registry!
Need to think
‘international’.
UNESCO
IFLA
EiFL
IATUL
ARL
ASEAN/
AUNILO
LIBER

16. *Ordered by Ingest Ratio*
Who is looking after each country’s publishers?
Elsevier
Hindawi
T&F, OUP, etc
Wiley etc
Springer
Karger

17. Some Publishers’ Titles are being kept very safe

18. very many ‘at risk’ e-journals from many (small &
not so small) publishers
BIG
publishers
act early but
incompletely
Priority:
find economic way to
archive content from

19. ① Web-scale not-for-profit archiving agencies:
② National libraries …
① Research libraries: consortia & specialist centres …
National Science Library,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Today’s ‘Keepers’: digital shelves above-campus
National Science Library,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

20. ① Web-scale not-for-profit archiving agencies:
② National libraries …
① Research libraries: consortia & specialist centres …
Two New ‘Keepers’ in waiting: OA/OJS & Brazil
National Science Library,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
National Science Library,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

21. • Strategies to ensure archiving titles in the 'Long Tail’
– of each nation’s ‘Published Heritage’
• E-journals, Government Documents, NewsMedia
• How to cooperate to deliver assurance that all the parts
(volumes & issues) of a given title are archived
• And of course, the support (funds & collection development
judgment) that they need from us
– from a library community who increasingly depend on their actions
– ‘Right-scaling’
“ …determining which materials are best managed at the local level,
which are best moved into some form of shared stewardship
infrastructure “above the institution”
(Constance Malpas & Brian Lavoie, 2014)
Themes for today & tomorrow …

22. Ensuring Continued Access to Streams of Issued Content
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