e-Journal Archiving Implementation Group (JARVIG)
JISC and other organisations have invested a significant amount of funding and effort into the e-journal archiving area over recent years. There has been an attempt to enhance and accelerate the rate at which UK universities and colleges adopt effective archiving solutions in the belief that such measures are the best way to ensure that:
- libraries’ investments in e-journal subscriptions are protected
- that vital scholarly materials remain discoverable and accessible over the long-term.
Though there appears to be a consensus across UK HE (at all levels) that e-journal archiving services are both strategically sensible and increasingly robust and plausible as functioning services, there remains a gap in uptake between those universities that admit to being concerned about the long-term safety and integrity of e-journals, and the number that actually subscribe or rely on e-journal archiving services (e.g. LOCKSS, Portico, CLOCKSS, e-Depot etc.).
It has become apparent that firm and decisive action on behalf of the sector is required to deliver a national infrastructure for e-journal archiving. Some of the components may already be in place and others pieces of the infrastructure are almost certainly in development. There is, however, increasing urgency to accelerate and where possible resolve the remaining challenges. Recent studies underline the economic and scholarly importance for the sector in a wholesale shift to an e-only model of journal provision and one of the major barriers in people’s minds is a question mark about the efficacy of long-term preservation measures. This barrier needs to be lowered or removed.
Aims and objectives
The aim of the group is to determine the most effective national e-journal archiving infrastructure (hereafter referred to as the ‘infrastructure’) for the UK HE sector, and then to support JISC (and other organisations where appropriate) to make sure that the infrastructure can be put in place as fast as possible.
The detailed objectives are as follows:- To endorse the remit for JARVIG and consider its membership, scope, duration, likely impact and benefit
- To reach a consensus on the appropriate response to the recommendations arising from the recent Beagrie White Paper on ‘E-Journal Archiving for UK HE Libraries’
- To flag up and discuss other significant contributions that are likely to help define the infrastructure
- To identify and discuss the components, linking elements, roles, actors and actions that will comprise and enable the infrastructure
- To present and elicit reaction on the components, linking elements, roles, actors and actions that will comprise and enable the infrastructure
- To formulate a viable and detailed action plan for a sustainable infrastructure for UK HE
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The above text is taken from the original terms of reference for the group.
JARVIG Participants
The following list includes all the people who have been invited to particpate in the first two meetings of the JARVIG group.
- Rachel Bruce (chair) - Innovation Director, Digital Infrastructure, JISC
- Phil Adams - Senior Assistant Librarian, De Montfort University
- Michelle Anderson - Director of Library Services, The Robert Gordon University
- Paul Ayris - Director of Library Services, UCL
- Neil Beagrie - Consultant, Charles Beagrie Ltd.
- Frances Boyle - Executive Director, UK Research Reserve, Imperial College London
- Peter Burnhill - Director, EDINA, University of Edinburgh
- Lee-Ann Coleman - Head of Scientific, Technical & Medical Information, British Library
- Lorraine Estelle - Chief Executive Officer, JISC Collections
- Neil Grindley - Digital Infrastructure Programme Manager, Digital Preservation, JISC
- Jeffrey van der Hoeven - Project manager Digital Preservation, National Library of the Netherlands (KB)
- Robert Lacey - Acquisitions Librarian, National Library of Wales
- Nick Lewis - Library Director, University of East Anglia
- John MacColl - University Librarian and Director of Library services, University of St Andrews
- Sally McInnes - Collection Care Manager and Digital Preservation Coordinator, National Library of Wales
- David Prosser - Director, Research Libraries UK
- Ann Rossiter - Director, SCONUL
- Hilde van Wijngaarden - Digital Library Programme Manager, National Library of the Netherlands (KB)
- Hazel Woodward - University Librarian, Cranfield University
JARVIG 1 (Woburn House - 3rd February 2011)
The purpose of this meeting was to agree and sign off the terms of reference for the group; and to agree on the scope of the relevant inputs into the discussion of the design of the infrastructure. The discussion began by looking at the findings of Neil Beagrie's white paper on 'e-Journal Archiving for UK HE Libraries'.
The proceedings of JARVIG 1
JARVIG 2 (Woburn House - 9th June 2011)
The objective of the second meeting was to identify and discuss the components, linking elements, roles, actors and actions that will comprise and enable the infrastructure.
The proceedings of JARVIG 2
JARVIG 3 (Details to be confirmed - October 2011)