Dear Lis-e-resources members,

  I'm writing to invite suitable personnel to be interviewed
  regarding preservation issues and electronic journals for a project
   called PEPRS (Pilot e-Preservation Registry Service) which is
  based at EDINA, the JISC national data centre housed at the
  University of  Edinburgh
  (http://edina.ac.uk/projects/peprs/).

  PEPRS is a JISC funded project to scope, build and test a pilot service
  for keeping track of which electronic journals have  arrangements in place
  for digital preservation so that journal  articles can be accessed over
  the long term. PEPRS will be a registry of journals being preserved
   by a range of different agencies.  In the pilot phase five
  agencies  are involved: LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico, the British
  Library, and KB  (the National Library of the Netherlands).

  As part of the development process, I am consulting staff in
  libraries who are or will be responsible for preservation with a
  view to helping PEPRS to understand what  information would be most
   useful to libraries, and how  PEPRS might best provide
  that.  Interviews will last approximately 30?45 minutes.  If you?re  
willing to be interviewed, I?d be grateful if you?d email me providing  
a telephone number or skype name and indicating your role and  
institution.  Some background information about PEPRS is pasted below.

Thanks and best wishes


Leah Halliday
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  Introduction
  Piloting an E-Journal Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS) is a  JISC
  funded project to scope, build and test a pilot service for  keeping track
  of which electronic journals have arrangements in  place for digital
  preservation so that journal articles can be  accessed over the long term
  (see  http://edina.ac.uk/projects/peprs_summary.html). The project is
  jointly led by EDINA and ISSN-IC.

  Background
  A scoping study for a registry of archived e-journals conducted by  
Rightscom  and  Loughborough University  
(http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/preservation/2008ejournalregstudy),  
  concluded that a  registry would be a tool of most use to librarians  
with  responsibility for serials or for all e-resources.  Of those   
surveyed  only one person stated that end users should have access.    
Accordingly  the anticipated registry will be designed with  a focus  
on the needs of librarians.

  The report went onto say that the registry is likely to be consulted in
  the following circumstances:

  (1) Before discarding or relocating print or taking a decision to  move to
  e-only - this would be to make the case for these moves,  decisions which
  would involve faculty at some level.
  (2) Before initiating or renewing a subscription deal? This would  be to
  inform an internal library decision
  (3) Active management of subscriptions to ensure uninterrupted access
  (4) Auditing to check licence terms are being observed from the  point of
  view of accountability for public money? This would be a  use by JISC or
  similar organisations with responsibility for  concluding major licensing
  deals

  It was considered unlikely that the registry would be used during the
  normal course of a subscription.  It was considered extremely unlikely
  that a library might check if there was an archive before  carrying out
  preservation work in-house as none of the libraries  interviewed believed
  that they had the resources or skills to  undertake such a task
  themselves.

  The report also highlighted user requirements for the Registry.   They are
  that the information held therein should:

  (1) Be accurate and current
  (2) Allow the user to identify a particular title
  (3) Allow the user to find out what volumes, issues etc. are preserved
  and by whom
  (4) Provide a means of finding out what are the conditions of access,
  what format has been used and what preservation strategies  are being
  followed.

  The PEPRS Project will develop a registry that aggregates ISSN
  bibliographical information for electronic journals with  preservation
  status and access information from archiving agencies.

  The PEPRS registry will contain records only for those electronic journal
  titles that have preservation action taken by agencies. The extent of
  ISSN bibliographic information made available through the registry is
  under discussion. We are working with agencies to determine the
  clearest way to convey preservation  status and access information.

  ISSN-IC and EDINA wish to ensure the PEPRS registry is used for
  verifying the preservation status of electronic journals. Where
  preservation action has not been taken for an electronic journal, a  user
  can search the full ISSN catalogue for a particular ISSN only  to confirm
  that the ISSN exists, and to show the corresponding  title. No other
  bibliographic information will be displayed.






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