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EDINA and the ISSN International Centre are pleased to announce the Beta 
release of the Keepers Registry, the e-journals preservation registry 
service. The Keepers Registry is now available at http://thekeepers.org 
<http://thekeepers.org.>

The Keepers Registry renames and replaces the PEPRS Beta service which 
was launched in April 2011.  The Keepers Registry is the product of 
JISC-funded project activity and provides freely available means to 
discover which e-journals are being preserved by the leading archival 
organisations.  The metadata from an additional agency, HathiTrust, has 
been included in this release of the Keepers Registry, as well as new 
functionality to support browsing by journal title and publisher.

The PEPRS project was initially funded as a two-year project to scope, 
design and build a prototype, during which user requirements were 
gathered from librarians and preservation agencies. The present funding, 
until July 2012, is geared towards implementation of a service-quality 
system.  Suitable developments from the PEPRS project activity will be 
implemented into the Keepers Registry.

The work of the PEPRS project and the launch of the Beta release of the 
Keepers Registry will be discussed at the annual meeting of the 
Directors of the ISSN National Centres to be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia 
Herzegovina, from 5th - 7th October 2011.

The idea for the registry was mooted in various reports since 2003 and 
the findings of a JISC-commissioned report carried out by the University 
of Loughborough and Rightscom and published in 2008. Further background 
information on the project and details of relevant reports are available 
on the PEPRS project website at 
http://edina.ac.uk/projects/peprs/index.html 
<http://edina.ac.uk/projects/peprs/index.html>

The six archiving agencies which have been participating in the project 
and have made metadata available to the PEPRS Beta service include:

- British Library
- CLOCKSS Archive
- e-Depot at the Konjinklijke Bibliotheek
- Global LOCKSS Network
- HathiTrust
- Portico

It is planned to extend the scope of the service by including metadata 
from other archiving agencies. Additional functionality will also be 
added to the service throughout 2011 and 2012 and details of this are 
set out in the FAQ section on the service.

A programme to test new functionality is being developed and the project 
team would welcome offers from users to assist in the testing process.

If you would like to get involved please contact us at [log in to unmask]

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behalf of UK funding bodies to support the activity of universities, 
colleges and research institutes in the UK, by delivering access to a 
range of online data services through a UK academic infrastructure, as 
well as supporting knowledge exchange and ICT capacity building, 
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The ISSN International Centre, established through agreement between 
UNESCO and the French Government, has the aim of introducing and 
operating an automated system for the registration of serials and 
maintains the ISSN Register. The ISSN (International Standard Serial 
Number) is an eight-digit number which identifies periodical 
publications, including electronic serials. http://www.issn.org/


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