4. PERMANENT ACCESS TO ON-LINE JOURNALS
The aim is to facilitate the transition to permanent Web publishing.
LOCKSS ("Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is a prototype system aimed at preserving access to scientific journals published on the Web in order to enhance the confidence of the librarian community in the Web as a more effective medium for scientific and technical communication than the material published on paper.
LOCKSS allows libraries to safeguard the Web journals they subscribe to. It was designed and is being implemented at the Stanford University Libraries with funding from the National Science Foundation and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The D-LIB Center is cooperating with LOCKSS experimentation and will make available it as a test-bed to illustrate its basic principles and promote its cooperative use.
We are pleased to present a two day course on how to create and provide access to local collections of electronic journals; and while simultaneously and affordably preserving and archiving this locally held materials for the very long term. This course will present the strategy, tactics, and technology of the LOCKSS Program. The LOCKSS software is open-source and is freely available for download and use.
Owning, Preserving, Archiving E-Journals
Or
Can You Have A Library If You Can’t Build Local Collections?
Currently, libraries lease access to web-published journals from the publisher’s web sites. The LOCKSS Program provides librarians with affordable tools and methods to uphold their traditional role as society’s custodian of scholarly materials.
This course will provide a philosophical and practical introduction to the techniques and methods for: (1) building and providing access to local e-journals collections; (2) leveraging an international technical and social international preservation and archiving system.
This two day course will provide a senior level introduction to:
· Strategic business and management issues
- at the local level, what are the costs of building and maintaining local e-journal collections
- at the international level, how will the LOCKSS program and technology be sustained once grant funding has
ceased
· Collection issues
- collection development (local collection development decision processes; engaging and leveraging publisher
relationships, the importance of local consortia, the role of local collections for the international library community)
- collection management (managing workflow, philosophy and use of preservation metadata for a decentralized
archive)
- collection access (integrating LOCSKS caches into institutional networks; reader access when the publisher’s web site is unavailable or a subscription has been cancelled)
· Preservation and Archiving technology
- Installing and configuring a LOCKSS cache to collect, preserve and archive e-journal content (this is a hands on
activity)
- Situating local LOCKSS caches within institutional networks so readers have seamless access to locally held content when that same content is no longer available from the publisher’s web site
- Customizing and applying the LOCKSS technology to apply to locally or nationally produced e-journals
- Adapting the LOCKSS technology from e-journals to other web based genres
System documentation (PDF) is available:
Frequently Asked Questions.pdf
Project descriptions and published papers:
Teaching Staff:
Victoria Ann Reich, Director LOCKSS Program, Stanford University
David Rosenthal, Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program, Stanford University
Technical Staff:
Carlo Carlesi
Stefania Biagioni (biagioni@iei.pi.cnr.it)
The D-Lib Laboratory was available for use during the course.
The course was held in March 2003. For information on dates, please look at CALENDAR.