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Golnessa Galyani Moghaddam, Preserve Scientific Electronic Journals: A Study of Archiving Initiatives, The Electronic Library, 26, 1 (2008) pp. 83-96.
Comment. The author is aware that OA is a kind of access, not a kind of preservation, and has this to say (from the body of the paper):
I'm not sure I understand. If the claim is that many OA repositories, and to a lesser extent OA journals, deliberately include preservation in their mission, that's true. If the claim is that OA permits widespread duplication, resulting in incidental or inadvertent preservation (on the LOCKSS principle), that's true too. If the claim is that OA facilitates preservation by removing permission barriers that obstruct it (such as barriers blocking the migration of content to new formats and media to keep it readable as technology changes), that's true as well. But none of these is a new area of discussion. I'll add just for completeness that OA is compatible with every kind of digital preservation strategy, and that preservation is vitally important for most of the actual and perceived benefits of OA. |