Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
Ensuring long-term preservation of, and continuing access to, scholarly and educational resources is an important strategic area for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).1 On 1 November 2005 JISC issued a call in partnership with CURL (Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles) to invite libraries of UK Higher Education (HE) institutions to participate in a UK Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) Pilot Programme for e-journal archiving and preservation
On 1 November 2005 JISC issued a call in partnership with CURL (Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles) to invite libraries of UK Higher Education (HE) institutions to participate in a UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme for e-journal archiving and preservation
Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS)2 is a tool developed at the Stanford University Libraries to preserve continued access to web-published e-journals
Summary
This article describes the UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme, an initiative funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in partnership with the Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles (CURL).The pilot directly engages a number of selected UK HE institutions in trialling the LOCKSS technology for e-journal archiving and preservation. LOCKSS (for Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an initiative that has been developed by Stanford University Libraries.
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