Archiving Electronic JournalsResearch Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationEdited, with an Introduction, by Linda Cantara, Indiana University.
Digital Library Federation Increasingly, scholarly journals are published electronically. What does it take to keep them accessible electronically in perpetuity? Can the property rights of publishers, the access responsibilities of libraries, and the reliability assurances that scholars need be reconciled in agreements to create archives of electronic journals? These series of studies examine various aspects of the challenges of archiving electronic journal content.
Background DocumentsPrefaceIn early 2000, the DLF, CLIR, and CNI began to address these questions with a view to facilitating some practical experimentation in digital archiving. In a series of three meetings -- one each for librarians, publishers, and licensing specialists, respectively -- the groups managed to reach consensus on the minimum requirements for e-journal archival repositories. Building on that consensus, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation solicited proposals from selected research libraries to plan the development of e-journal repositories meeting those requirements. Seven major libraries received grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, including the New York Public Library and the university libraries of Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Pennsylvania, Stanford, and Yale. Yale, Harvard, and Pennsylvania worked with individual publishers on archiving the range of their electronic journals. Cornell and the New York Public Library worked on archiving journals in specific disciplines. MIT's project involved archiving "dynamic" e-journals that change frequently, and Stanford's involved the development of specific archiving software tools. Ø Papers presented to an initial meeting of the program participants, 6 February 2001. Published by |
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