The UK LOCKSS Alliance aims to ensure sustainable access to scholarly work through content development and preservation efforts. A survey was conducted among 18 institutions to assess publisher demands and to develop a collection policy to prioritize at-risk content. The presentation also discussed the PEPRS project, an e-journal preservation registry to monitor archival actions and gaps in preservation initiatives.

1. UK LOCKSS Alliance: Content Development Adam Rusbridge ( [email_address] ) EDINA, University of Edinburgh 10 th May 2011

2. Content Development: Session Agenda NESLi2 and NESLi2-SMP Survey PEPRS Open Access Content Challenge of Content Testing Discussion

3. 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?

4. 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

5. NESLi2 and NESLi2-SMP Survey 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

6. NESLi2 Publishers

7. NESLi2-SMP Publishers

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. PEPRS: Example of Search Results

14. PEPRS: Example of Title-Level Detail

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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?