Outline• ‘Urgent action’ statement• ARL/CLIR survey• Portico• LOCKSS/CLOCKSS• An Australian JSTOR?

Urgent action• “Urgent action needed to preserve

scholarly journals” statement September 2005

• Wide endorsement in North America

Approach 1• Preservation of e-journals is a kind of

insurance• Not necessarily a form of access

Approach 2, 3• Preservation archives should provide

a minimal set of well-defined services• Libraries must invest in a qualified

archiving solution

Approach 4• Libraries must demand archival

deposit by publishers as part of licensing agreements

• CEIRC model license implications

ARL e-journal preservation survey

• Article by Kenney [www.clir.org/pubs/archives/ejournal.htm]

• ARL commission to CLIR, working with Cornell

• Preservation programs by not for profits• Peer reviewed journal literature in

electronic form

Programs • Ten across US, Australia, Canada,

Germany, Netherlands• Evaluation study to examine where

library directors invest and why• Report in August 2006

Portico• = JSTOR Electronic Archiving

Initiative• About preservation of born digital• Provides mechanism for ingest and

preservation of electronic-only

JSTOR vs Portico

• JSTOR about wide access• Portico about insurance – ‘trigger

events’ which may lead to loss of access

• But JSTOR builds and maintains Portico delivery system

Membership• Libraries

– Sign archive license agreement – Annual archive fee– 25% reduction for 5 years for archives founders

in 2006 and 2007– Based on material spend

• Publishers– Archival agreement with Portico– Fee– OUP and Elsevier in

LOCKSS/CLOCKSS• LOCKSS

– Local storage of subscribed content– No take up in Australia/NZ?

• CLOCKS– Community based, beyond subscribed– Research project– Dark archive– Participation closed

Australian JSTOR?• What has been digitised• QULOC efforts