Abstract
Long-term archiving of scientific information is a well known challenge. We discuss the issue of preservation for journals and their enhanced versions. We use the Information Bulletin on Variable Stars as an example. This express journal, created to satisfy the need of researchers for rapid dissemination of discoveries and results has been developed to become an enhanced journal, with several data journal features. However, the original software developed for the enhanced web version of the journal is not sustainable for the long term. We discuss the possibilities for moving the journal to a standard open source platform, and the trade-offs of the process. Long-term preservation of content, including data, is addressed as well.
Highlights
The Information Bulletin on Variable Stars (IBVS) is a small express journal focused on the narrow field of astrophysics: variable star research
Established as a Bulletin, it became a pioneer on the web, and became an enhanced journal
Editors of the IBVS decided to use an OpenAIRE grant for the renewal of the journal, and keeping some key features, abandoning certain enhanced functions, and gaining some new functionalities – like OAI-PMH compliance – the journal will move to Open Journal Systems
Summary
The Information Bulletin on Variable Stars (IBVS) is a small express journal focused on the narrow field of astrophysics: variable star research. The enhanced features of IBVS were innovative, some of them even unique, but as we had to realize, unsustainable on the long term. As IBVS is a micro journal, without extensive financial resources, and a technical editor doing technological development in his free time, it become impossible to migrate all the existing features to a new platform, when it became necessary. Editors of the IBVS decided to use an OpenAIRE grant for the renewal of the journal, and keeping some key features, abandoning certain enhanced functions, and gaining some new functionalities – like OAI-PMH compliance – the journal will move to Open Journal Systems
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