UK LOCKSS ALLIANCE ROUNDUP, OCTOBER 2013
This is the latest periodic news bulletin reporting developments in UK  
LOCKSS Alliance functionality and content.  In this bulletin we report  
on new functionality that has been released recently or is currently  
being tested in beta version, and on the costs and benefits of UKLA  
membership.

NEW FUNCTIONALITY
The developments reported here are part of an ongoing endeavour by the  
LOCKSS development team to ensure that the LOCKSS software can  
integrate easily with library infrastructure.

RELEASED FUNCTIONALITY
The following two features help UKLA members use LOCKSS in their local  
library environment.

?	Link resolver integration: Access, via the library catalogue, to  
content preserved in a LOCKSS box can be provided by integrating  
LOCKSS with link resolver systems.  Documentation is available online  
at  
http://www.lockss.org/support/use-a-lockss-box/view-your-preserved-content/.   
The LOCKSS software can be integrated with Ex Libris? SFX, Serials  
Solutions 360Link, and Innovative Interfaces WebBridge.  Development  
is nearing completion for EBSCOHost LinkSource and OCLC WorldCat.

?	Title list: This feature displays the status of content that is  
available for preservation or is preserved in your LOCKSS box.  You  
can use this feature to generate three kinds of KBART-compliant  
reports: (1) a report of titles and volumes that are ?available? for  
preservation in your LOCKSS box; (2) a report of the titles and  
volumes that you have configured for preservation in your LOCKSS box  
so that they may be ingested when they are available; and (3) a report  
of the titles and volumes that you have ?collected? in your LOCKSS box  
and that are now available for end users to access.
Experimental Functionality
Three new ?experimental? functions are now available and are being  
tested by the LOCKSS membership. If you wish to participate in beta  
testing of these functions, please contact [log in to unmask]

Subscription Manager:  To reduce collection management requirements,  
system administrators will use the Subscription Manager to register  
institutional ?holdings? for each title so that when new volumes are  
released, these are configured automatically for collection by the  
institution?s LOCKSS box.

?	Display Content Status:  To assist with collection management the  
Display Content Status function shows you what content is configured  
for collection and, within that, what has been collected successfully  
and where problems have arisen.

?	COUNTER reports: To assist with reporting on the value of  
investment, LOCKSS can now generate reports compliant with the latest  
COUNTER Code of practice for e-resources (Release 4;  
http://www.projectcounter.org/code_practice.html). It is possible to  
generate COUNTER reports for journals (reports 1 and 5) and books  
(reports 1 and 2). Each report appears in two versions, one of them  
with the postfix "L" (for "L"OCKSS).

o	Reports with the "L" postfix include all the usage requested through  
the LOCKSS box. By default, when content is requested through a LOCKSS  
box the request is forwarded to the publisher. If the publisher's  
content is different or newer than that preserved by the LOCKSS box,  
the publisher's version is served. The "L" report includes these usages.

o	The reports without the "L" postfix include only usage where the  
LOCKSS box could not involve the publisher (which is rare) to avoid  
double-counting the hits. The underlying assumption is that the  
publisher will include, in its own COUNTER report, the hits of which  
it is aware.

The ?Subscription Manager?, ?Display Contents Status? and ?COUNTER  
Reports? are disabled by default.  Enabling these features requires  
only that you add short strings of text to ExpertConfig and restart  
LOCKSS.  For details see the blog post at  
http://www.lockssalliance.ac.uk/2013/10/28/new-experimental-features-in-lockss/.

CASE STUDIES
In Spring 2013, UKLA published three case studies documenting the  
experience of three UKLA members.  The studies describe: the benefits  
and value derived by institutions including through use of some of the  
newer functions; the work involved in using LOCKSS; and further  
developments that these institutions would like to see.

Benefits cited by members include that ?the reliability of LOCKSS as a  
source of content to address short-term outages instills confidence in  
its reliability as a long-term preservation solution?, that ?it?s  
reassuring for users to see the content in the box as evidence that it  
is safely preserved and can be accessed?, and that ?the LOCKSS box is  
held locally and thus is under the control of the library. The library  
decides what to archive.?

The case studies are published on the blog at  
http://www.lockssalliance.ac.uk/participating-institutions/case-studies/
Costs of participating in UKLA
The UKLA Finance Working Group recently calculated the cost of  
participation, including membership fee, staff time and hardware, for  
institutions of different sizes (based on JISC bands).  Costs vary  
depending on the volume of content preserved but a typical institution  
can expect to spend approximately £4K p.a. on staff and hardware while  
membership fees range from £1.8K to £5K p.a.  (see the Jisc  
Collections web pages for details:  
http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/FullDescription/index/1557).

Institutions wishing to join UKLA will find information about  
membership and details of how to join at  
http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/Agreements/YearlyAgreements/1557.









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