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1 Publishing in Perpetuity The importance of Digital Preservation for Publishers in Science, Medicine and Technology Drs Eefke Smit International STM Association Director for Standards and Technology

2 STM is a trade organization: Qu’est que c’est ? Approx 100 scientific publishers – From small to large – Profit and non-profit – Learned societies and corporations – Primary, secondary, aggregators, agents In 26 different countries Publishing > 60 % of all research articles Majority of all research journals Tens of 000’s of books and reference works Major databases 60 % members outside Europe

3 STM as trade organization; what does it do ? Intellectual property matters – Public policy on protection of rights – Communicate guidelines, codes of conduct – Fighting piracy, handling © disputes Standards and Technology – New protocols, fonts and formats – Developing standards, exchange of best practices Publishing Projects – 3rd world access: Hinari, Agora, Oare – PatientInform: access to new medical research Education and Training – Courses, conferences, seminars

4 To Publish in order not to Perish Possibly the deepest wish of every author Digitisation poses new challenge 90 % of journals online Subscriptions shifting to e-only E-content growing fast Publishers invest heavily Own e-archives Own back-volumes Joint initiatives Identifiers and cross-linking Publishers support the creation of rights-protected archives that preserve scholarship in perpetuity

5 Publishers participate in many digital preservation initiatives Collaboration with all stakeholders Layered approach in e-preservation: – Own e-archive – Keep content convertable for migration – Ensure integrity of content during migration – Deposit into independent, rights-protected archives – Ensure interim services in case of collapse International scope Not all eggs in one basket

6 Portico and CLOCKSS: central versus network Portico: Permanent archive for electronic scholarly journals – Library initiative – Archiving based on content migration, held centrally – Relies on existing standards – Sound business model – Non profit institution – Scores high on sustainability, but is limited in scope (ejournals) CLOCKSS: Controlled Lots of Copies to Keep Stuff Safe. – Community governed (6 libr, 11 publ) – Distributed archive network: 7 libraries (max 15) – Each library has 2 CLOCKSS boxes, publishers deposit – Archiving based on software to monitor and correct content – Voting between cached documents for continued integrity – For any scholarly material

7 Agreed terms of engagement JOINT initiatives: co-governed by publishers and libraries Trigger Events defined (as jointly decided): – A publisher stops operations; or – A publisher ceases to publish a title; or – A publisher no longer offers back issues; or – Upon catastrophic and sustained failure of a publisher's delivery platform. Important: Copyright protection Archiving of official publications, subscribed or not Independent of Business Models Interoperability is important

8 Key principles from the stm perspective: 1. STM publishers see long term digital preservation as a key responsibility 2. Most publishers have taken responsible preservation action for their publications on this point individually as well as jointly, eg in Portico, CLOCKSS, and via National Libraries. 3. Open, publisher-friendly standards for digital preservation should ensure to keep archival information retrievable and accessible in perpetuity 4. Standards should be commonly applicable between official publications and grey literature and research data in repositories to ensure interoperability 5. Too many different standards and requirements for digital preservation should be avoided as they make proper maintenance of archives very difficult, while adoption of 2 or 3 parallel practices will increase the chance of long term survival


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