Taking A Long View' by Peter Burnhill

Taking A Long View

Peter Burnhill

EDINA, University of Edinburgh

09:40 – 10:00

Taking The Long View: International Perspectives on E-Journal ArchivingEdinburgh 7th September 2015

what was once available in print ,

on-shelf locally … … is now online & accessed

remotely,

‘anytime/anywhere’

We’ve seen improved Ease of Access…

But what ofContinuity of Access?

(this is mostly due to publishers)

Digital back copy is not in the custody of libraries

Picture credit: http://somanybooksblog.com/2009/03/27/library-tour/

Libraries boast of ‘e-collections’, but do they only have ‘e-connections’?

to ensure researchers, students & their teachers have

ease and continuing access to online resources needed for scholarship

licence to use

“ease” “continuing”

usability preservation

access to content & tools

Our Shared Task is

Restricted

Open

Stewardship: delegated responsibility to care for or improve over time

“The Scholarly Record has a fuzzy edge”

‘e-journals’

Websites, Databases, Repositories

‘book-length work’

‘Gov Docs’

Limit Scope: The (digital) Scholarly Record

conference proceedings

‘e-magazines’

‘e-newsmedia’

‘data as findings’

Widen scope: + Resources Needed for Scholarship

e-theses

e-methods: software

Online Continuing Resources

Issued in Parts ‘Serials’

Content changes over time ‘Integrating’

‘e-journals’

Websites, Databases, Repositories

‘Gov Docs’

Practical focus today on what is identified as issued online as a ‘continuing resource’

Conference proceedings

‘e-magazines’

‘e-newsmedia’

Stewardship for a significant part of our‘Published Heritage’

E-theses

The wider scope includes the

‘web-resident’: Web Archiving

& Reference Rot

National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences

All Hail The Keepers: offering digital shelving

① Web-scale not-for-profit archiving agencies:

② National libraries …

③ Research libraries: consortia & specialist centres …


Many archiving organisations a Good Thing

“Digital information is best preserved by replicating it at multiple archives run by autonomous organizations”

B. Cooper and H. Garcia-Molina (2002)

Bad stuff will happen!

But how do we know who is keeping what?

thekeepers.org as Global Monitor

… to discover who is looking after what

ISSN-L as kernel field

Streams of issued content being archived?

The Keepers Registry reports titles ‘ingested & archived’ by at least 1 ‘keeper’:

16,558 In 2011

21,557 in 2013

28,507 as at August 2015

* More archiving & more knowledge as more archives report into Registry!

More ISSN assigned 35,000 in 2009

100,000 in 2012

169,000 in 2015

Two Key Statistics: Ingested / Identified

‘Ingest Ratio’ = titles ingested by one or more Keeper / total ‘online serials’ in ISSN Register

= 28,507 / 169,634 [as of August 2015]

=> 17%‘KeepSafe Ratio’ = titles being ingested by 3+

Keepers / total ‘online serials’ in ISSN Register

= 10,019 / 169,634

=> 6%

Archival Status of what Libraries List (USA)

‘Ingest Ratio’ = 22% to 28% about a quarter=> fate of c.75% unknown

In 2011/12 three major research libraries in the USA checked archival status of serial titles regarded as important

P. Burnhill (2013) Tales from The Keepers Registry: Serial Issues About Archiving & the Web. Serials Review 39 (1), 3–20. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098791313000178, &https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6682

Every librarycan now do this via Members Area in the Keepers Registry

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098791313000178

https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6682

https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6682

with usage logs from the UK OpenURL Router• 53,311 online titles requested in UK during 2012

3 years later, in 2015:

‘Ingest Ratio’ = 36% (19,231/53,311)

=> fate of 34,080 titles unknown

‘KeepSafe Ratio’ = 20% (10,847/53,311)

Archival Status of what Users Request (UK)

15

%age of 165,949 ISSN assigned to ‘e’ (July 2015)

US: 19%

Rest of World: c. 50%

Canada 5%UK: 9%

Brazil: 4%

Ger: 6%Fra: 7%

Researchers (& libraries) in any one country depend on content written & published as serials in countries other than their own

169,634

Known Archival Status of Online Continuing Resources (assigned ISSN) by Country, July 2015

More archiving & More knowledge

as moreISSN assigned& more archives report into Registry!

Need to think ‘international’.

UNESCOIFLAEiFL

IATUL

ARLASEAN/AUNILO

LIBER

*Ordered by Ingest Ratio*Who is looking after each country’s publishers?

Elsevier Hindawi

T&F, OUP, etcWiley etcSpringer

Karger

Some Publishers’ Titles are being kept very safe

very many ‘at risk’ e-journals from many (small & not so small) publishers

BIG publishers

act early but incompletely

Priority: find economic way to archive content from





Today’s ‘Keepers’: digital shelves above-campus





Two New ‘Keepers’ in waiting: OA/OJS & Brazil



• Strategies to ensure archiving titles in the 'Long Tail’ – of each nation’s ‘Published Heritage’

• E-journals, Government Documents, NewsMedia

• How to cooperate to deliver assurance that all the parts (volumes & issues) of a given title are archived

• And of course, the support (funds & collection development judgment) that they need from us– from a library community who increasingly depend on their actions

– ‘Right-scaling’“ …determining which materials are best managed at the local level, which are best moved into some form of shared stewardship infrastructure “above the institution”

(Constance Malpas & Brian Lavoie, 2014)

Themes for today & tomorrow …

Ensuring Continued Access to Streams of Issued Content

Peter Burnhill, EDINAInformation ServicesUniversity of Edinburgh

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Taking A Long View' by Peter Burnhill