1. UK LOCKSS Alliance Members' Meeting 10 th May 2011 Institutional Perspectives: The London School of Economics Bill Barker and Lisa Cardy

2. Institutional Perspectives: The LSE Summary of session o Profile of the LSE and its ejournal resources and staff o the LSE and LOCKSS: past and present o What we’ve preserved so far o What’s still to be done o What we’ve learnt about the UI

3. Profile o We’re a specialist institution o 40,000 ejournals o A mix of major and small/medium publishers o 2.5 million FT downloads in 2009-10 o Tracked in SerialsSolutions o One Assistant Librarian managing the ejournals, limited library assistant resources o Subscribe to LOCKSS and Portico Institutional Perspectives: The LSE

4. Past o Associate member of the pilot, then subscriber to the service o Intermittent input from us until recently o IT set backs Present o E-first policy as the driver o IT support and delegating AU ingest and selection to library assistants o Ejournal preservation commitment

5. Institutional Perspectives: The LSE What we’ve achieved so far o VFM: LOCKSS fee is a fraction of total cost of our current preserved content o Preserved so far in our LOCKSS box o 75% of our Emerald tracked titles (£18k) o 48% of our Sage tracked titles (£90k) o 80% of our OUP tracked titles (£25k) o 90% of our Springer tracked titles (£60k) o Supporting and driving the LSE Library’s e-first policy

6. Institutional Perspectives: The LSE To do o Integrate our LOCKSS box with our link resolver o Automate serving content and simulate a trigger event o Make qualitative and detailed quantitative statements about the extent of our LOCKSS content (PEPRS) o Preserve more than ejournals