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LOCKSS: FEEDBACK FROM INIST’s EXPERIENCE

• Foreword• Preservation-Why? • LOCKSS overview• LOCKSS at INIST• Conclusion

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Foreword

• CNRS: French National Centre for Scientific Research

• INIST: Institute for Scientific and Technical Information purchases e-resources for the French research community

• Access given to researchers through thematic internet portals (2009 budget: 10 M€)

• INIST has an archiving mission for CNRS and other EPST (Government Research Organizations)

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Preservation - Why?

• From shelves to online access• e-ressources on internet portal • Long-term access / preservation• Which solutions?

What about LOCKSS?

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LOCKSS: overview

• CNRS member of Lockss Alliance since 2007 • Digital preservation tool• Collecting and preservating one’s own copies

of authorized e-content• Open source software• Inexpensive• Collaborative: peer to peer

Lots of copies keep stuff safe

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LOCKSS: what is needed

• Lockss Box: archive of content (copies of web page presentations)• Publisher’s Manifest: permission to crawl• Plug-in: where to crawl and what• Polls: quality of copies

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LOCKSS at INIST

• Implemented in 2006: 1 computer/3 people • e-resources on 2 portals BiblioVIE and

BiblioSHS• EZ-Proxy• 1st step: selecting publishers• 2nd step: selecting journals • 3rd step: collecting

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CNRS portalEZProxy

LOCKSS How does it work ?

Publisher’s Web site

Lockss Box

NoAccess

Access

Member’s LockssBoxes

Crawling

Polls

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LOCKSSAdministration

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LOCKSSInterface

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LOCKSSCollecting

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LOCKSSChecking

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• Successful• No permission from publisher • Can't fetch permission page • Never crawled• Fetch Error

What does it mean?

LOCKSSVolumes in LOCKSS Box: different statuses

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• Missing plug-in? • Missing manifest? • Journals via an aggregator? • Misunderstanding between publisher and

INIST? • Technical problem?

LOCKSSTroubleshooting

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BiblioVIE on the Lockss Box: Publishers: 85

Titles: 171BiblioSHS on the Lockss Box:

Publishers: 56 Titles: 343

LOCKSSLockss Box (http://lockss.intra.inist.fr )

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Bioone: 74 titles (not crawled) BMJ (on HW): 22 titles (no permission) Highwire: 34 titles (successful) OUP: 55 titles (successful) Muse: 305 titles (successful)

LOCKSSLockss Box (http://lockss.intra.inist.fr )

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Locksable vs purchases

(titles)

Successfully in Lockss Box

(titles)

BiblioVIE 27% of thematic

171 4% of total

14% of thematic

89 2% of total

BiblioSHS 17% of thematic

343 7% of total

16% of thematic

305 6% of total

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• Time-consuming• Librarian/IT staff • Limited number of volumes per title, why? • Only few publishers

How to build a collection then?

LOCKSS Technical aspects

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Conclusion

One solution but not THE SOLUTION• Mix with other solutions

WE NEED:• Licence: authorization from publisher to

preserve with Lockss• More publishers participating• More members in France to create a network• Group of users and influence

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Thank You !

catherine.fournier@inist.fr

http://www.inist.fr/