Category Archives: Keepers Registry

PKP PLN joins the Keepers Registry

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We are very pleased to welcome the Public Knowledge Project Private LOCKSS Network (PKP PLN) as the latest archiving organisation to join the Keepers Registry.

The Public Knowledge Project is a multi-university initiative based at Simon Fraser University developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing.   One of the services it has developed is a Private LOCKSS Network to digitally preserve OJS journals.   Currently in pilot phase with a small number of universities, once in full production mode the network will provide preservation services for any OJS journal that meets certain criteria.

Joining the Keepers Registry enables the PKP PLN to share information on the titles it is archiving, and brings  the number of Keepers currently contributing to the Registry to eleven.  We expect to start including metadata from the PKP PLN in the New Year.

For more information about the PKP PLN’s approach to archiving and contribution to the Keepers Registry see the Archiving Agencies section of the Keepers Registry.  Find out more about the PKP and the PLN on their website: https://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-lockss/.

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New Release of the Keepers Registry

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We are pleased to announce the latest release of the Keepers Registry at http://thekeepers.org. This release adds significant new features that will help research library staff make local collection management decisions.

New Features Available in the Keepers Registry

Our new Member Services area provides access to our added-value features.  Once you’re registered you will find:

  • Our Title List Comparison service, enabling a user to discover the archival status for a list of serials:  identifying those that are being archived and those that are “at risk”.
  • The first version of our SRU and Z39.50 machine-to-machine interfaces.  This will be of value to other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information in their interface.
  • Direct Linking to Records to support bookmarking and sharing of specific records.

Access to our Member Services is free. To learn more and try out a Title List Comparison of your own, please register now.

How the Keepers Registry helps libraries

The Title List Comparison service lets you upload a list of titles identified by ISSN and receive a report with information on “who is archiving what” and what is not being archived.

Information from the Title List Comparison was used by one university to assist with local library collection management decisions.  They told us about the benefits:

  1. Identifying which of our e-journal titles are archived. We were very quickly able to see which of our journal titles had some archiving activity reported.
  2. Lobbying publishers to engage with archiving agencies. Now that we can understand which titles and publishers are not being progressed, there is an opportunity to tell publishers that we think this is an important part of the subscription service.
  3. Discussing coverage with the agencies. Where we have specific local priorities, we are now better informed to initiate a discussion with archiving agencies to see how our priorities can be met.
  4. Disposing of print. We collaborate with other university libraries to dispose of print; knowing that the complete run of a title is preserved in electronic form provides reassurance that we are not depending solely on a single print copy.
  5. Discovery of other agencies. We have discovered other agencies that hadn’t previously been on our radar, and it has made us think about our relationship with other agencies and how we should be working with them.

We would like to hear how the Keepers Registry is helping your institution with collection management decisions. Please get in touch with feedback and suggestions for further improvements to edina@ed.ac.uk.

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Changes to the Keepers Registry

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The Keepers Registry has been upgraded.   The latest release contains a number of new features:

  • a Title List comparison service
  • SRU and Z39.50 machine-to-machine interfaces
  • direct linking to records

Register for the new Member Services area to find out more – it’s free, and only takes a few minutes.  If you have previously registered for our Preview service you can login using the same account.

We’ll be posting more information about the new features and how you might use them over the next few weeks.

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Free EDINA workshop on preservation and continuing access

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Booking is now open for a free one-day workshop led by EDINA: “Taking the long view: Factoring preservation and continuing access into your library workflow”.

July 10th 2015: National Rail Museum, York

With the transition from print to digital publishing, it is no longer libraries but publishers who provide online access to e-journals. Librarians now need to regularly review holdings and subscriptions to ensure appropriate access and optimal use of financial resources. Historically, preservation was an incidental by-product of the access role undertaken by libraries. Today, the stewardship that underpins long-term access for the future is increasingly undertaken by external agencies such as Portico and CLOCKSS. It can thus be difficult for librarians to ensure that their communities will have stable, long term access to materials in perpetuity: this lack of clarity can have significant consequences for decisions around print rationalisation, cancellation, and budget allocation.

This knowledge exchange workshop will explore how librarians can plan for long-term access to journals. Participants will have an opportunity to share stories on how their institutions conduct annual reviews, print rationalisation exercises and other related processes, and there will be discussion of how EDINA services such as the Keepers Registry and SUNCAT can assist in these workflows.

This event is free but places are limited. Please register by 30TH June 2015.

The National Railway Museum is conveniently placed near to York Railways Station.

For further information please contact edina@ed.ac.uk

Preview our new service features

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We are pleased to make available a preview of the next major service release of the Keepers Registry at http://preview.thekeepers.org

The current service (http://thekeepers.org) will continue as the primary service during May but we would encourage you to try out the preview version.  The preview will be released into service in June 2015. In the meantime, we are grateful for feedback on the preview version to edina@ed.ac.uk.

New Features

Our new Member Services area provides access to our added-value features.  Once you’re registered for our new Member Services area you will find:

  • Our Title List Comparison service, enabling a user to discover the archival status for a list of serials:  identifying those that are being preserved and those that are “at risk”.
  • The first version of our SRU and Z39.50machine-to-machine interfaces.  This will be of value to other service providers who may wish to report Keepers Registry information in their interface.
  • Persistent URLsto support bookmarking and sharing of specific records.

We anticipate that the Title List Comparison service will be of great assistance to library staff, as it allows you to upload a list of titles identified by ISSN and receive a report containing the data uploaded plus information on “who is preserving what” and what is not being preserved.

Access to our Member Services is free. To learn more about the our features and try out a Title List Comparison of your own, please register now.

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Report on EDINA Serials Forums: March 2014

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We are now back in the office after our EDINA Serials Forums last week in London and Edinburgh and would like to send a large thank you to all the attendees. We were very happy to see the level of interest and engagement in our services, particularly the new look SUNCAT! We were particularly delighted to receive the positive feedback about the new interface and the latest planned development of a journals holding comparison service.

After an initial chat over coffee and biscuits both EDINA’s User Support Deputy Manager, Andrew, kicked off the afternoon sessions started with an overview of EDINA’s involvement in the world of journal discovery, access and preservation and how it is positioned within JISC’s portfolio of services.

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http://www.slideshare.net/edinadocumentationofficer/introducing-the-serials-forum

Fred Guy, SUNCAT Service Manager, and Zena Mulligan, SUNCAT Project Officer, then focussed in attention on SUNCAT, starting with a brief background to SUNCAT, moving onto the context for the current development, the key enhancements of the new look service, a live demonstration and rounding off with how SUNCAT can support end-users and library professionals, illustrated with a number of use cases.

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http://www.slideshare.net/edinadocumentationofficer/managing-your-journals-suncat

The final use case focussed on the UK Research Reserve and led into an informative overview from the UKRR Manager, Daryl Yang, describing its core objectives, members, figures on material disposed of and retained, savings made and future plans as well as how SUNCAT supports them with the vital scarcity checking element of their decision making process.

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http://www.slideshare.net/edinadocumentationofficer/uk-research-reserve

It was then time for afternoon tea and cake – which for our Edinburgh session, was provided by EDINA’s resident baker (and SUNCAT’s Metadata Expert), Tasha, who made everyone very happy with a selection of truly delicious cupcakes. The break also provided an opportunity for networking and to catch up with our current contributors and to speak to those attendees interested in contributing to SUNCAT or in finding out more about the holdings comparison development.

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After the break, Fred provided an introduction to the need for archiving programmes for ejournals mentioning the work of the Keepers Registry and our analysis that has found that over two thirds of ejournals accessed in 2012 are not currently being archived by any organisation.

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http://www.slideshare.net/edinadocumentationofficer/securing-continuing-access-to-ejournal-content

Adam Rusbridge, UK LOCKSS Alliance Coordinator, then gave a walk-through of the forthcoming Title List Comparison feature of the Keepers Registry, which will assist with print rationalisation and subscription management workflows.  This led onto a broader discussion of EDINA services that can assist with continuing access assurances.  The UK LOCKSS Alliance helps libraries to build local collections of content and provide readers with continuing access by integrating the collection with link resolver systems.  Adam then gave an overview of SafeNet, a project to establish a shared service that offers strong continuing access assurances in conjunction with an authoritative entitlement registry to manage access permissions.

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http://www.slideshare.net/edinadocumentationofficer/edina-serials-uklasafenetfinal

Finally, after a final round of Q&A we wound up the afternoon by asking if anyone would be interested in attending a similar event in the future and having received a very definite yes, please look out for something similar (but different) in 2015!

Thanks again from the Forum presenters, Andrew Bevan (EDINA User Support), Fred Guy (Keepers Registry & SUNCAT), Zena Mulligan (SUNCAT), Adam Rusbridge (Keepers Registry, UK LOCKSS Alliance) and Daryl Yang (UKRR). Any questions about the Forum or the services highlighted please contact us via the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk.

Reminder and update on Serials Forum: Helping you manage your journal collections

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A reminder about this this free half-day event focusing on some of the key issues in journal management – with presentations and discussion of the overarching themes and successful approaches in addressing them.

This is an opportunity to learn more about developments of EDINA activities in this area -covering the redeveloped National Union Catalogue of Serials, SUNCAT, as well as community initiatives such as the UK LOCKSS Alliance and Keepers Registry, focussing on long-term access to journal content.

We are also delighted to announce the addition of a special guest speaker, Daryl Yang, UK Research Reserve (UKRR) Manager, who will provide an update on the UKRR and talk about how EDINA supports this valuable service.

Join us for a lively debate and afternoon tea.

Presenters: Zena Mulligan (SUNCAT), Fred Guy (Keepers Registry, SUNCAT), Adam Rusbridge (Keepers Registry, UK LOCKSS) and Daryl Yang (UKRR)

Draft Agenda

1.00 – 1.30 pm              Registration and tea/coffee

1.30 – 1.45 pm              Putting the Serials Forum and EDINA services in context

1.45 – 2.45 pm             Managing your journals – how SUNCAT can help you fulfil your ILL requests; keep your catalogue up to date and analyse your collection (including use cases; how SUNCAT supports the UKRR, details of the redevelopment; demo of the new service, and future plans)

2.45 – 3.00 pm              Forum discussion on SUNCAT issues

3.00 – 3.30 pm              Tea/coffee and cake

3.30 – 4.15 pm              Securing continuing access to e-journal content: how EDINA’s services can help (with reference to the Keepers Registry, UK LOCKSS Alliance, and PECAN initiatives)

4.15 – 4.45 pm              Forum discussion on Keepers Registry, LOCKSS, PECAN etc. issues

4.45 – 5.00 pm              Summary and next steps

 

London:  Monday 17th March 2014, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, near Russell Square, London
Registration and event details: http://edina-serials-forum-london.eventbrite.co.uk
Please book by Thursday 6th March 2014

Edinburgh:  Friday 21st March 2014, Main Library, University of Edinburgh
Registration and event details: http://edina-serials-forum-edinburgh.eventbrite.co.uk
Please book by Friday 14th March 2014

For further information about the Forum please contact the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk

We look forward to seeing you next month!

Serials Forum: Helping you manage your journal collections

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Booking is now open for this free half-day event focusing on some of the key issues in journal management – with presentations and discussion of the overarching themes and successful approaches in addressing them.

This is an opportunity to learn more about developments of EDINA activities in this area -covering the redeveloped SUNCAT (http://www.suncat.ac.uk), as well as community initiatives such as the UK LOCKSS Alliance (http://www.lockssalliance.ac.uk/) and Keepers Registry (http://thekeepers.org/), focussing on long-term access to journal content.

Join us for a lively debate and afternoon tea.

Presenters: Zena Mulligan (SUNCAT), Fred Guy (Keepers Registry, SUNCAT) and Adam Rusbridge (Keepers Registry, UK LOCKSS)

Draft Agenda

1.00 – 1.30 pm   Registration and tea/coffee

1.30 – 1.45 pm   Putting the Serials Forum and EDINA services in context

1.45 – 2.30 pm   Managing your journals – how SUNCAT can help you fulfil your ILL requests; keep your catalogue up to date and analyse your collection (including use cases; details of the redevelopment; demo of the new service, and future plans)

2.30 – 3.00 pm   Forum discussion on SUNCAT issues

3.00 – 3.30 pm   Tea/coffee and cake

3.30 – 4.15 pm   Securing continuing access to e-journal content: how EDINA’s services can help (with reference to the Keepers Registry, UK LOCKSS Alliance, and PECAN initiatives)

4.15 – 4.45 pm   Forum discussion on Keepers Registry, LOCKSS, PECAN etc. issues

4.45 – 5.00 pm   Summary and next steps

 

London: Monday 17th March 2014, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, near Russell Square, London
Registration and event details:
http://edina-serials-forum-london.eventbrite.co.uk

Edinburgh: Friday 21st March 2014, Main Library, University of Edinburgh
Registration and event details:
http://edina-serials-forum-edinburgh.eventbrite.co.uk

For further information about the Forum please contact the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk

We look forward to seeing you in March!