Access to Digital Back Copy

Editor's Notes

1. This is about ensuring that online serial content, whether issued in parts or changes over time via a website, continues to be available for scholarship. The central take home message is that we all have a lot still to do.
2. First, the good news. With the Internet and the Web, And with mobile devices There is much greater ease of access But what of continuity of access?
3. What was once on shelf, is no more. This is not news, but it is cause for concern Libraries speak of e-collections but increasingly they have only e-connections an emptiness inside Brought on by a simple twist of fate.
4. What was once on shelf, is no more. This is not news, but it is cause for concern Libraries speak of e-collections but increasingly they have only e-connections an emptiness inside Brought on by a simple twist of fate.
5. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
6. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
7. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
8. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
9. This is a problem that has national & international dimension But Researchers (& libraries/publishers) in any one country are dependent upon content which is written and published in countries other than their own
10. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
11. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
12. Some more good news These are the heroes of the story Each type, web-scale , national library, and specialist centre and research library consortia has a special role to play as digital shelves, with archival intent
13. Think Alexandra Library, periodic book burning and retrospective changes made to the historical record To guard against accidental and deliberate loss you need to engage with more than one. Multiple copies, in multiple places, using different methods of preservation and under different governance Is a really good thing
14. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
15. But how do we know who is looking after what? More good news, you have The Keepers Registry at thekeepers Dot Org Enter title or ISSN & you search across metadata reported by the world’s 10 leading archiving organisations
16. But to return to script … What of the e-journals themselves? Surely Ithe e-journals preservation problem is now solved? Via the Keepers Registry we see a steady increase in the number of titles being archived
17. But to return to script … What of the e-journals themselves? Surely Ithe e-journals preservation problem is now solved? Via the Keepers Registry we see a steady increase in the number of titles being archived
18. But to return to script … What of the e-journals themselves? Surely Ithe e-journals preservation problem is now solved? Via the Keepers Registry we see a steady increase in the number of titles being archived
19. But to return to script … What of the e-journals themselves? Surely Ithe e-journals preservation problem is now solved? Via the Keepers Registry we see a steady increase in the number of titles being archived
20. But to return to script … What of the e-journals themselves? Surely Ithe e-journals preservation problem is now solved? Via the Keepers Registry we see a steady increase in the number of titles being archived
21. But to return to script … What of the e-journals themselves? Surely Ithe e-journals preservation problem is now solved? Via the Keepers Registry we see a steady increase in the number of titles being archived
22. But to return to script … What of the e-journals themselves? Surely Ithe e-journals preservation problem is now solved? Via the Keepers Registry we see a steady increase in the number of titles being archived
23. But to return to script … What of the e-journals themselves? Surely Ithe e-journals preservation problem is now solved? Via the Keepers Registry we see a steady increase in the number of titles being archived
24. The bad news – the wake up call - is that we aint done yet When compared with the total of online serials assigned ISSN, the two take home figures are that Only 17% are being reported as being ingested by one or more of those 10 keepers - what I call the Ingest Ratio And if we coin the Keep Safe Ratio as the proportion in the hands of three or more keepers, then the percentage is 7%
25. OK, lets be sophisticated and focus on what libraries say they care about We took the lists of e-serials that each of three research libraries said they cared about, Of those with ISSN assigned, only about a quarter were in the custody of a keeper The fate of 75% was unknown.
26. This is largely a long tail problem The big publishers in the room - those dinosaurs that aim to evolve into birds They have been active with CLOCKSS & Portico and have signed agreements to archive their content for the long term But as we all realise, once we start to think about it, it’s the content from the very many small publishers that is at risk They matter to you because they are cited in your journals and because libraries wont go e-only until that is fixed
27. Lets, look at this from the readers’ point of view. This is using OpenURL logs of requests in the UK in 2012 Less than one third of online titles requested are in the custody of those 10 keepers Over two-thirds are therefore at risk of loss.
28. So, time for 2020 Vision and some targets There is a best case scenario
29. But also a worst case scenario
30. But a short announcement about some bad news – that is of Reference Rot When what was referenced and cited in that article Ceases to say the same thing ‘Or has ceased to be’ - to quote the dead parrot sketch Just ask Herbert Van de Sompel and he will be pleased to tell you next year about Hiberlink
31. Reference Rot occurs when links to web resources not longer point to what you meant Articles link to “Web at Large” resources needed or created in research activities e.g. project websites, software, ontologies, workflows, online debate, slides, blogs, videos, etc.
32. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
33. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
34. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
35. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
36. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
37. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
38. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
39. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
40. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
41. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
42. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
43. Overview - Threat & Remedy What’s the Problem? How do we know? Creating a Monitor PEPRS - > Keepers Registry Generating Actionable Evidence Results New Members Services Title List Comparison. This facility helps a library discover the archival status of a list of serials:  identifying those that are being ingested for preservation and those which are still “at risk”. Linking Options. These enable other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information within the interface of their own website. Currently we have two options: A machine to machine interface using SRU or Z39.50. An OpenURL resolver to support prospective linking. 4. What’s the Remedy? Action by libraries & publishers - > real heroes (keepers: archiving agencies) 5. Reflections seriality or not issued in (enumerated) parts or over time (as in website content) ISSN or not (role of URN/URI for websites?) open vs not new or not [back copy, what has been ‘bought’ and available ‘post-cancelation’) 6. Re-thinking Strategy archiving action Long-tail Keepers Registry 7. Next Steps
44. This poses a threat to the future of the scholarly record.
45. What was once on shelf, is no more. This is not news, but it is cause for concern Libraries speak of e-collections but increasingly they have only e-connections an emptiness inside Brought on by a simple twist of fate.
46. You can and should engage now with at least one – and preferably at least three – of the real heroes of this 5 minute story
47. Over the next year, we want librarians to start using the Members Area feature and integrating this into their routine workflows.  This might be our best opportunity to sell the value of this feature to users?  I've extracted some slides used for our EDINA serials forum last week that might be useful.Noting Fred's point about making the key messages very clear, would a summary at start and end help?  Are the following our key messages:1.  Keepers aggregates metadata from all the archiving agencies (heroes) and is becoming a first port of call for up-to-date information.2.  Total proportion of content covered is still very small.  Librarians, publishers and archiving agencies need to work together to assure long-term access resilience.  While there may be regional initiatives (eg. 2CUL) we want to use Keepers Extra to coordinate international activity and provide a forum for sharing of best practice.3.  Our Title List Comparison feature will help all you librarians in your print rationalisation activities, and will help to implement your sustainable collection policies.  Try it out!
48. This is largely a long tail problem The big publishers in the room - those dinosaurs that aim to evolve into birds They have been active with CLOCKSS & Portico and have signed agreements to archive their content for the long term But as we all realise, once we start to think about it, it’s the content from the very many small publishers that is at risk They matter to you because they are cited in your journals and because libraries wont go e-only until that is fixed
49. This is about ensuring that online serial content, whether issued in parts or changes over time via a website, continues to be available for scholarship. The central take home message is that we all have a lot still to do.