E-journal preservation: economicsand practicalities at the LSE

Presented by Bill Barker and Lisa Cardy

Summary of today’s session

• LOCKSS: what it is and how it works• The UK LOCKSS Alliance (UKLA)• The LSE’s LOCKSS box• Lessons learned so far• Populating your LOCKSS box: a look at our LOCKSS

box and the interface• What we’ve achieved, what’s still to be done• Questions please• Further information

LOCKSS: what it is and how it works

• Lots of copies keeps stuff safe• Based at Stanford University Library since 2000• Peer to peer networks using ACM technology link

institutions• LOCKSS collects, compares, repairs and caches any

web based content on an in-house machine• www.lockss.org for more details• 450 publishers and 6,000 ejournal titles• LOCKSS is a preservation tool

The UK LOCKSS Alliance (UKLA)

• 2005: JISC led pilot to encourage preservation and support a move to ejournals

• 2008: Subscribed service• The JISC model licence and LOCKSS• The UKLA and its steering committee• Technical support based at EDINA• LSE has been a UK LOCKSS institution since the pilot

stage• UKLA membership:20 institutions

LOCKSS box at the LSE: from the pilot onwards

• Intermittent input until recently• Lack of imperative = lack of staff time• The importance of senior management commitment to

ejournal preservation• Local IT support • Administering a LOCKSS box: quick and basic or time

and labour intensive

Lessons learned

• Strategic importance of ejournal preservation • Basic or involved approach: dependent upon your own

collection and reporting requirements• Regular status checks • Talk to other LOCKSS instituions• Take advantage of UKLA events

Populating your LOCKSS box

• As new content becomes available institutions are emailed details about the publisher, titles and issues available for preserving in LOCKSS

What we’ve achieved

• Value for money: LOCKSS fee is a fraction of total cost of our current preserved content

• 75% of our Emerald tracked titles are preserved in LOCKSS

• 48% of our Sage tracked titles are preserved in LOCKSS• 80% of our OUP tracked titles are preserved in LOCKSS• 90% of our Springer tracked titles are preserved in

LOCKSS• Supporting and driving the LSE Library’s e-first policy

What’s still to be done

• Integrate our LOCKSS box with our link resolver• Automate serving content and simulate a trigger event• Make qualitative and detailed quantitative statements

about the extent of our LOCKSS content (PEPRS)• Preserve more than ejournals

Questions and further information

• Any questions please• serials.manager@lse.ac.uk• www.lockss.org• http://www.lockssalliance.ac.uk/• http://edina.ac.uk/projects/peprs/#home• www.jisc-collections.ac.uk