E-journal preservation: economics and 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 for more detailswww.lockss.org 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 ed 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