LOCKSS Alliance Libraries Preserve 11,000 New Volumes In First Half Of 2011

June 15, 2011

In the first six months of 2011, participating LOCKSS Program libraries preserved content from major partner publishers such as PNAS, Springer, Emerald, and the JBJS. The LOCKSS Alliance provides a full management digital preservation program. Libraries use LOCKSS to build and preserve local collections for future scholars and publishers, thus separating payment from access. For publishers, the LOCKSS Program is the only preservation approach to both preserve a publisher's output in toto and to provide publishers with all web traffic.

David Rosenthal inaugurates Insight interview series

June 15, 2011

An interview with David S.H. Rosenthal inaugurates a new series of interviews called Insight on the Library of Congress' Signal digital preservation blog.

Emerald Partners with the LOCKSS Program

January 19, 2011

The LOCKSS Program is pleased to announce that Emerald journal titles are now available for preservation in the Global LOCKSS Network.

Emerald has committed for LOCKSS preservation more than 270 e-journal titles. By implementing a library ownership model, Emerald enables libraries to fulfill a core library mission - to build and preserve digital library collections.

Libraries participating in the LOCKSS Program guarantee their long-term access to scholarly information, giving librarians and scholars confidence in the electronic environment. Using the award winning LOCKSS technology to build and preserve local collections, libraries have perpetual access rights to scholarly content as needed, and publishers continue to receive all reader traffic to their web sites.

Rebecca Marsh, Publishing Director at Emerald comments, "We are pleased to announce that the EmeraldInsight platform is LOCKSS compliant, allowing libraries to preserve content and maintain access to their subscribed and purchased content to support the long term needs of the scholarly community."

"Library collections are a keystone for perpetual access and long term preservation. We are delighted to be working with Emerald to support libraries and their institutions," says Victoria Reich, Director LOCKSS Program.

Emerald Group Publishing Limited is a leading independent publisher of global research with impact in business, society, public policy and education. Visit www.emeraldinsight.com

About the LOCKSS Program: Founded in 1998, the LOCKSS Program is a unit of the Stanford University Libraries. Participating libraries are building and preserving general collections in the Global LOCKSS Network. Approximately 450 subscription and open access publishers have committed their content for LOCKSS preservation. See http://www.lockss.org

Launched in August 2008, the UK LOCKSS Alliance is a cooperative movement of UK academic libraries that are committed to identify, negotiate, and build local archives of material that librarians and academic scholars deem significant. By ensuring that the library is involved in rights negotiation, collection decisions, and ownership of infrastructure it reinforces the role of the library as custodian of scholarly content. See http://www.edina.ac.uk/lockss

About Emerald: With over forty years' experience, Emerald Group Publishing is an independent leading publisher of global research with impact in business, society, public policy and education. In total, Emerald publishes over 700 titles, comprising 200 journals, over 300 books and more than 200 book series as well as an extensive range of online products and services. Emerald is both COUNTER 3 and TRANSFER compliant, and the organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). See http://www.emeraldinsight.com

Springer Partners with the LOCKSS Program

December 7, 2010

The LOCKSS Program is pleased to announce Springer ‘s participation in the Global LOCKSS Network.

Springer has committed for LOCKSS preservation nearly 42,000 e-books; more than 2000 e-journals, 174 eReference works, and 22,000 Protocols. By implementing a library ownership model, Springer is enabling libraries to fulfill a core library mission - to build and preserve digital library collections.

The LOCKSS Program balances the needs of libraries and publishers to access and preserve important scholarly materials over time. LOCKSS libraries have perpetual access to content preserved in their institution’s LOCKSS Box. Publishers receive all user hits; the LOCKSS technology does not divert traffic from a publisher.

Heather Ruland Staines, Senior Manager eOperations says, “Springer is pleased to announce that SpringerLink is LOCKSS compliant, allowing libraries to preserve content and maintain access to their subscribed and purchased content to support the long term needs of the scholarly community.”

“Library collections are a keystone for perpetual access and long term preservation. We are delighted to be working with Springer to support libraries and their institutions”, says Victoria Reich, Director LOCKSS Program.

Springer Science+Business Media is a leading global scientific publisher, publishing around 2,000 journals and more than 6,500 new books a year. It has the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide, and the largest business-to-business publisher in the German language.

The LOCKSS Program is a unit of the Stanford University Libraries. Founded in 1998 libraries are building and preserving general collections in the Global LOCKSS Network. Approximately 450 publishers have committed their content for LOCKSS preservation. Libraries are using Private LOCKSS Network to preserve government documents (Digital Federal Depository Library Program), data sets, and special collections materials. See www.lockss.org.

Accessing LOCKSS Preserved Content Through SFX

November 12, 2010

Due for release in early 2011, the LOCKSS team is now integrating the LOCKSS software with the SFX link resolver from Ex Libris. The integration will enable a library to use a local LOCKSS repository as a target in their SFX enabled on-line public access catalog. Many link resolver vendors have adopted common practices, and so although this implementation is specific to SFX, we are planning to generalize this work for other link resolvers in future.

The current development schedule and roadmap is as follows:

- End of November 2010: Complete the enhancements required to LOCKSS, including an export format for LOCKSS titles (currently following the KBART specification), the LOCKSS target and our LOCKSS target parser with the SFX group at Ex Libris.

- December 2010: Begin field-testing a release candidate of LOCKSS that supports the integration of with SFX with an invited group of participants.

- End of February 2010: Support for integration of LOCKSS with SFX will be included in a LOCKSS software release.

A white paper describing the new functionality under development and containing demonstration screenshots is now available from: http://www.lockss.org/locksswiki/files/SFX_Integration_White_Paper.pdf

Berkeley Electronic Press Digital Commons partners with LOCKSS Program

July 8, 2010

Berkeley Electronic Press has partnered with Stanford University's LOCKSS program - Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe - to implement an OAIS-compliant archival solution using the award-winning LOCKSS technology. Berkeley Electronic Press, "LOCKSS: Preserving Digital Commons Content at Your Institution" (2010). Reference Material. Paper 22. http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/reference/22

GPO Joins LOCKSS Alliance

June 14, 2010

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has joined a worldwide digital preservation alliance to further collaborate with federal depository libraries and other organizations on preservation initiatives. LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so they can collect and preserve their own copies of authorized electronic content. Since its founding in 1861, GPO has been promoting the preservation of government information through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). In 2009, the agency launched GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys), a content management system, preservation repository, and advanced search engine that provides the public with permanent public access to federal government information. (www.fdsys.gov) GPO’s participation in LOCKSS will support development efforts by libraries that utilize LOCKSS.

“GPO’s long partnership with the library community will only be enhanced by joining LOCKSS,” said Acting Superintendent of Documents Ric Davis. “By joining LOCKSS it will give GPO the opportunity to share the preservation initiatives the agency has taken with FDsys and explore additional opportunities with the FDLP.”

“Stanford incubated and hosts LOCKSS to assure that the research community and the public will retain access to digital information over the long term, and protecting federal documents through LOCKSS strengthens both scholarship and an informed electorate indefinitely,” said Michael Keller, Stanford University Librarian, Director of HighWire Press, and Director of the Stanford University Press.

Also: Ric Davis' radio interview