2. Libraries collection roles Selecting, archiving, providing access Goal:preserve an authorized reader’s access to the web editions ofscholarly journals while staying within libraries’ budgets and yet respecting publishers’rights A Local copy – custody of the content we buy
3. What is LOCKSS? Gold standard for ejournal perpetuity Archive -- local custody of purchased content Preserve – redundancy and p2p error correction Access – Sits seamlessly between user & publisher, stepping in when publisher link fails A preservation Internetappliance, not an archive transparently supplies pages itis preserving even if those pages are no longer available from the original publisher’s website
4. The lockss difference Take custody of the subscribed material & preserve it links and searches continue to resolve to the published material even if it is nolonger available from the publisher digital equivalent of stacks where anauthoritative copy of material is always available An institution using LOCKSS to preserve access to ajournal in effect runs a web cache devoted to that journal
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6. How does it work? http://docs.google.com/present/view?skipauth=true&ncl=true&id=dskvvck_22gcnpsgfx
7. What have we been waiting for? Publishers stayed away in droves, so little of our content was “available” in lockss October 2009 SPRINGER on board -> tipping point Offer from CLOCKSS founder to send tech team to Claremont to see what we they do about lockss archiving of ALL of our PCA-rights content Time sensitive—need proof of concept for March SCELC board meeting Idea is to run this SCELC-wide, w/ press release
8. What do I need from you? Assistance in bringing up the lockss box next week Someone(s) to learn more about lockss with me so we can understand together what it will take to make this happen (from the tech guys when they visit) R&D of a process that we can hand off to the collection team for ongoing growth and maintenance—assuming it gets off the ground
