Dear colleagues,

This is a periodic news bulletin reporting developments in UK LOCKSS  
Alliance functionality and content.

NEW CONTENT ADDED TO THE GLOBAL LOCKSS OVER THE LAST YEAR
Between September 2012 and August 2013, a total of 19,022 additional  
archival units (volumes) were made available for preservation on the  
Global LOCKSS network. These included volumes from 1,011 new titles  
and from 142 publishers not previously available in the Global LOCKSS  
Network. Two further releases were added to the GLN in September 2013.  
  In the coming months, Project Muse e-books will be made available  
for libraries to preserve in their LOCKSS boxes.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON CURRENT CONTENT
There are several ways in which you can keep up to date with what  
content is available through LOCKSS.  We provide monthly updates to  
administrators of LOCKSS boxes, providing information on the new  
publishers, titles and volumes available for preservation.  We also  
provide a KBART-compliant spreadsheet on our website at  
http://www.lockss.org/community/publishers-titles-gln/, which lists  
content both previously made available for preservation and  
forthcoming ?in progress? content, and we participate in the Keepers  
Registry (http://thekeepers.org), a registry service that acts as a  
global monitor on the archiving arrangements for electronic journals.

We value library feedback around content selection, and the LOCKSS  
team at Stanford welcomes information from libraries about which ?in  
process? titles are high priority.

LIBRARIES' VALUING OF LOCKSS
Libraries value the LOCKSS system as a means to preserve content over  
the long-term and to reassure academics that content will continue to  
be available when the library shifts towards an e-only collection.   
They also value the opportunity to redirect users to content in the  
LOCKSS box when a publisher source is unavailable in the short term.   
See our recent case studies for more detail on how librarians use  
their LOCKSS boxes:   
http://www.lockssalliance.ac.uk/participating-institutions/case-studies/

INTEGRATION OF THE OPENURL RESOLVER WITH THE LOCKSS BOX
Libraries can make content in their LOCKSS boxes available as cover  
for short-term outages by integrating LOCKSS as a source for the local  
OpenURL resolver.   Integration with LOCKSS is currently available for  
Innovative Interfaces, Serials Solutions, and Ex Libris products and  
work to integrate EBSCOhost and the OCLC OpenURL resolver is underway.  
We encourage UKLA members to integrate their resolvers with LOCKSS to  
benefit from this additional functionality. The easiest way to  
kickstart integration is to have a quick conversation to discuss next  
steps.  Please get in touch if you?d like to schedule this.

NEW FEATURES THAT OPTIMISE VALUE
We have recently introduced two new features to enhance the value of  
LOCKSS to libraries:

-	Libraries can now record COUNTER-compliant usage statistics to  
report usage of the content in a LOCKSS box.
-	LOCKSS can be protected by Shibboleth authentication, which allows  
libraries to provide off-campus access to content.

For guidance on integrating LOCKSS with your link resolver, or to  
activate the new functionality, please contact the EDINA Helpdesk at  
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