e-Journal Archiving for UK HE Libraries - A White Paper
Libraries are facing increasing space pressures and funding constraints. There is a growing interest in wherever possible moving more rapidly to e-only provision to help alleviate these pressures as well as to provide new electronic services to users. One of the most cited barriers and concerns both from library and faculty staff to moving to e-only has been sustaining and assuring long-term access to electronic content.
The aim of this white paper is to help universities and libraries implement policies and procedures in relation to e-journal archiving which can help support the move towards e-only provision of scholarly journals across the HE sector. The white paper is also contributing to complementary work JISC and other funders are commissioning on moving towards e-only provision of Journals.
Charles Beagrie Ltd. was commissioned by JISC to write the paper and a draft is now available for consultation and comment from the wider community during October and November 2010.
A copy is avaialble on JISC Press which enables reviewers to comment on, discuss, annotate, deliberate and review JISC documents in considerable detail. Those who would prefer to email their comments can do so by sending an email to Neil Grindley (n.grindley@jisc.ac.uk), with a CC to Neil Beagrie (neil@beagrie.com).
Comments will be accepted on the draft up until Friday 12th November 2010.
The consultation version of the report is available by clicking on the link at the bottom of this page.