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March 2012
The National Science Library, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC)
has joined other leading archiving organisations in the Keepers
Registry, the international facility which records who is looking
after the world's e-journal content.
Funded by JISC and developed by EDINA (http://edina.ac.uk) and the
ISSN-IC (http://www.issn.org), the Keepers Registry is online at
http://thekeepers.org.
Established in 1949, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is a
leading academic institution and comprehensive research and
development centre in natural sciences, technological science and
high-tech innovation in China. The National Science Library, Chinese
Academy of Sciences (NSLC) is the public library service system of
CAS. NSLC functions as the key library nationally for collecting
information resources and providing information services in natural
sciences, inter-disciplinary fields, and high tech fields, for the
researchers and students of CAS and for the researchers around the
country. Learn more at http://english.las.cas.cn
Project Co-Directors Peter Burnhill (EDINA) and Françoise Pelle said,
"We are very pleased to welcome the National Science Library, Chinese
Academy of Sciences into the Keepers Registry, as a sign of their
commitment and enthusiasm to help the library community globally."
With the Keepers Registry providing a single point of access to
archiving agency metadata, the library community now has an improved
understanding of who is doing what with regards to e-Journal
preservation. The Keepers Registry allows library staff to discover
which publishers are participating in the NSLC archive and provides an
overview of the NSLC's preservation approach and access conditions.
Seven organizations have now registered as 'Keepers', including the
British Library, CLOCKSS Archive, e-Depot at the Dutch national
library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), HathiTrust, the Global LOCKSS
Network, and Portico. Organizations from Canada and the UK are
preparing to join.
About the Keepers Registry: The Keepers Registry Beta service provides
easily accessible information about the archiving arrangements for
electronic journals. The Keepers Registry is an output of the JISC
funded project, Piloting an E-Journals Preservation Registry Service
(PEPRS) (http://edina.ac.uk/projects/peprs), and has been jointly
developed by EDINA, a national data centre based at the University of
Edinburgh, and the ISSN International Centre in Paris. Learn more at
http://thekeepers.org
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