Perhaps
this study has already been mentioned, but it may be worthwhile mentioning
again. Stephen Chapman has
investigated costs of digital preservation and has published his findings in: “Counting the Costs of Digital
Preservation: Is Repository Storage Affordable?” Stephen Chapman, Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard
University Library, Cambridge, MA, USA
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/Chapman/
Whoever stores digital
files for future access must be aware of and willing to assume the ongoing costs. Those who prefer to access files
maintained by others will be paying for ongoing services – as well as emulation
and migration to ensure continued access.
Chris.
Christine L.
Sundt
Visual Resources Curator
University of Oregon
Architecture & Allied Arts Library
Lawrence Hall - Room 300
1190 Franklin Boulevard
Eugene, OR 97403-5239 - U.S.A.
v: 541/346-2209
f: 541/346-2205
email: csundt@uoregon.edu (or csundt@mindspring.com)
Copyright & Art
Issues - http://uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/
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Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:20
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To: diglib@lists.uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: diglib: Fwd: [ERIL-L]
Archival access to e-journals
The 2004 CLIR study on the savings gained
when moving journals from print to e-only touches on this topic somewhat.
Basically, the authors found that there really is no long-term solution yet and
that any solution will likely include libraries (i.e., LOCKSS, the Elsevier
deal with the National Library of the Netherlands). As a result, their
study has some interesting calculations comparing the cost of dealing with
print vs. electronic, but archiving the e-only is not factored in.
Because open access archiving is changing
the demands on authors, publishers, and providers, I think there are still many
issues to be resolved, especially about who is going to bear the costs.
RE: LOCKSS: Unless a publisher were already a LOCKSS participant, you
would likely have to negotiate this type of access up front as well as having
the perpetual access issue already written into your agreement.
Otherwise, I imagine you are SOL.
About 60 publishers or so are participating. We ought to investigate
LOCKSS more. There is an alliance now and there is no reason to go it
alone if we don't have to do so.
http://lockss.stanford.edu/alliance/alliance.htm
Faye
Another side topic we touched on in
yesterday's
meeting. It will be interesting to see how people
respond to this survey.
Carol
Date:
Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:13:21 -0700
Reply-To: Electronic Resources in Libraries
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From: Jennifer Watson <jwatso21@GO.COM>
Subject: [ERIL-L] Archival access to e-journals
* Apologies for cross-posting *
I'm writing an article on archival/perpetual access to cancelled e-journals and
I'd like to hear your opinions, policies and practices regarding this subject.
- How important is archival access to you when deciding whether or not to
subscribe to e-journals?
- Do you require archival access as part of your license agreement for
e-journals? If not, did you make a conscious decision not to require it, or has
the issue just not come up?
- When subscribing to e-journals, do you also subscribe to the print version so
as to have an archive of the title, in case you have to cancel the
subscription?
- Do you currently have archival access to e-journals you’ve cancelled? What
format is the access e.g. online, CD-ROM, tapes? How’s that working for you?
- If you completely lost access to any e-journals due to cancellation, did your
patrons complain about the lack of archival access?
- Are you using LOCKSS? If so, is it hard to get vendors to allow you to use it
to archive their content? Have you used it to access cancelled e-journals?
- I haven’t seen much written on this topic recently. Have you seen any
articles on archival/perpetual access that you would recommend?
I’d really appreciate it if you could contact me with your comments and input
at jwatso21@utmem.edu. I’ll be happy to summarize the results for the list.
Thanks for your help.
Jennifer Watson
Electronic Services Librarian
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
jwatso21@utmem.edu
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