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
The good news: the shift to e-journals means that researchers and students in UK universities have access to many of the journal articles they need, anywhere, anytime, to read online or to download for later use
A pilot project for a e-journals preservation registry service In August 2008, JISC began funding a project to pilot an e-journals preservation registry service (PEPRS). This is being carried out by EDINA, the UK national academic data centre based at the University of Edinburgh, and the ISSN International Centre (ISSN-IC), building on a long-standing association
The term ‘archiving action’ signals another open issue for PEPRS: should the scope be limited to digital preservation, or should the scope be widened to take note of growing concern among libraries and their patrons about ‘perpetual access’? Regardless, and sticking to the original brief to focus on digital preservation, it is clearly important to be able to make plain the form of archival action being taken by a given agency and the corresponding terms of access or release of that content: for example, whether this is long-term preservation with triggered general (‘open access’) release, or whether this is post-cancellation’ access dependent upon prior subscription
Summary
CO-AUTHORS: FRANÇOISE PELLE (Director) and PIERRE GODEFROY, ISSN International Centre; FRED GUY, MORAG MACGREGOR, CHRISTINE REES and ADAM RUSBRIDGE, EDINA. The need for a registry of archived scholarly publications features in various reports on digital preservation and archiving of e-journals. Online access to scholarly journals brings many benefits. There are genuine concerns about long-term access, given threats from natural disaster, human folly and technological failure. These concerns are being recognized and a number of organizations are stepping forward as archiving agencies, as yet with no readily accessible means to discover who is looking after what, to what purpose and with what terms of availability. This paper describes a project to pilot an e-journals preservation registry that is being carried out by a UK national academic data centre and the international standards body for serials.
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