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
Electronic journals have come to dominate the field of academic literature, and it is of great importance to the international scientific community that this electronic intellectual output is preserved well and that it remains accessible in perpetuity.The traditional principles for the archiving of printed academic literature no longer suffice in the digital world.These are based on national frontiers: each national deposit library preserves its own national academic heritage
New ways of co-operation in the field of long-term digital archiving of electronic publications and its metadata will emerge.This paper looks at the policy and ambitions of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) regarding digital archiving of electronic publications
■ These publications must be preserved for the long term, by organizations who take up the responsibility, and who are dedicated and equipped for this task
Summary
Electronic journals have come to dominate the field of academic literature, and it is of great importance to the international scientific community that this electronic intellectual output is preserved well and that it remains accessible in perpetuity. The KB, as the national library of the Netherlands, has a duty to collect and preserve all publications printed in the Netherlands, and its e-Depot is a logical extension of this task into the digital world. For several reasons it is uncertain whether the traditional model, based on national deposits and geographical frontiers, will be able to guarantee the long-term safety of the international scientific output in a digital form.
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