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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Preserving OA journals with LOCKSS

JISC and the University of Glasgow have launched OpenLOCKSS, a new program to use LOCKSS for preserving OA journals.  From the announcement:

The OpenLOCKSS project, funded by JISC and led by the University of Glasgow will negotiate with a number of UK Open Access publishers to seek their permission for the inclusion of their titles in LOCKSS.

Just before Christmas 2006 participants in the UK's LOCKSS Pilot programme received a survey asking them to 'vote' for open access titles, mainly UK based taken from the DOAJ list. This was done with a view to contacting the most popular titles and making arrangements if possible for them to participate in LOCKSS preservation arrangements (BioMed Central titles have been excluded, as they are already in contact with LOCKSS)....

JISC have asked the University of Glasgow to take this forward and the OpenLOCKSS project has been set up, to run until the end of July 2007. The project aims to bring around 12-15 titles into LOCKSS participation....

An OpenLOCKSS project website has been set up and while still in a relatively early stage of development it includes the proposal to JISC with the full survey results, together with the project deliverables, workplan and timescale....