In addition to subscription and open access electronic journals, LOCKSS Alliance members are collecting and preserving government documents, electronic thesis and dissertations, websites, in-house image collections, and, soon, books and blogs....Through the manifest page mechanism, publishers give permission to authorized libraries to preserve their content. The use and access restrictions of subscription-based content are governed by the original license agreement. If a publisher’s terms and conditions are fairly stable across customer bases, we urge them to put rights and restrictions on the LOCKSS publisher manifest page so this information is bundled with and preserved with the content. A manifest page is not always required. The LOCKSS system ingests content from websites that support OAI-PMH with permission but without the need for a manifest page full of links. For open access publishers, we encourage use of an appropriate Creative Commons license. This machine-readable license is then preserved with the content, making clear current and future rights. Also, in response to community requests, we are currently working on methods to preserve blogs. We expect that in most cases this will be done via RSS. Other ingest mechanisms may also be implemented, such as Google SiteMaps.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/04/2006 11:44:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
