1. The Alliance for Permanent Access Hans Jansen Director, Research & Development, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands Frankfurt, 20 april 2007

2. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Alliance Permanent Access European Initiatives 2002-2007 EU-Presidency meetings Madrid, Copenhagen, Brussels, Florence, … The Hague (2004) Conference Permanent Access to the records of science: Science & Culture Task Force: European infrastructure R&D programme Alliance

3. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Alliance Permanent Access European Initiatives 2002-2007 National Coalitions: DPC (UK) Nestor (D) PIN (F) NCDD (NL) European Projects: Planets DPE Caspar

4. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Alliance Permanent Access Alliance for Permanent Access CERN, ESA, ESF, CCLRC, JISC, STM Publishers, BL, KB, NAS, DPC, Nestor, PIN, NCDD European framework for a sustainable virtual infrastructure for permanent access to scientific information Each scientific community will have a different repository infrastructure, but agree on standards to be interoperable Each repository infrastructure will benefit from a number of common facilities (R&D, preservation tools, accreditation body)

5. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Alliance Permanent Access Alliance for Permanent Access Engagement with the different scientific communities: - identify what to preserve and how - identify key repositories - establishing metadata schemes - organising test beds - identify commonalities

6. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Alliance Permanent Access Contact: hans.jansen@kb.nl www.alliancepermantaccess.eu (summer 2007) www.kb.nl