FEATURE Preservation
by the preservation strategies of PeerJ and other OA publishers, the answer is no, but in Binfield’s words, ‘it’s another route to resilience’. ‘This gives us much more of a distributed resilient archive of content than if we were a subscription publisher that really restricts the number of copes that exist in the world,’ he says. ‘It’s not failsafe but if the entire system of CLOCKSS or LOCKSS went down, it is a natural advantage of being an OA publisher.’
Preservation’s final frontier? Be it formal or informal, the OA publishing front- runners clearly have preservation in hand. But what about the much smaller OA publishers that are publishing, at most, a handful of relatively- niche titles? Without a doubt, right now, these are struggling with preservation services. Victoria Reich, executive director of the
LOCKSS program at Stanford University Library, highlights how almost every day a publisher, requesting content preservation, contacts the programme.
Reich reckons the majority of these requests are from India- and China-based OA publishers that don’t always have enough published articles for quality to be evaluated. At the same time, the publication’s editorial board is often too narrowly
access journal but do they really know what they are doing on the preservation side? So, yes, there is a chunk of content that is being published that isn’t very well preserved.’
Victoria Reich from LOCKSS asserts distributed preservation approaches are key to ensuring long-term access to digital content
represented to be of interest to the majority of LOCKSS participating libraries.
And perhaps worse, some publishers are ‘black-listed’ on a website set-up by academic librarian, Jeffrey Beall of Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver, USA. This aims to warn researchers of possible dubious practices from ‘predatory’ OA publishers. But as Riech highlights: ‘This, of course, makes librarians understandably skittish about spending precious resources to preserve this material.’ PeerJ’s Binfield concurs that a large group of ‘less professionally organised open-access venues’ exist, that likely have preservation issues. ‘These could be small journals run by a professor out of his or her office,’ he says. ‘You know it’s an open-
A key issue is the fact that smaller, OA publishers won’t have the resources to set up, say, a CLOCKSS or Portico repository, which demands an initial fee to cover fixed costs such as software expenses. But help is at hand. ‘Recovering this initial fee from any smaller publisher is quite challenging,’ says Kiefer of CLOCKSS. ‘But our board is now looking at avenues to find grant funding to underwrite this initial step for more of these open-access and small publishers.’ And as Binfield also highlights, other groups have emerged to ease preservation pressures for smaller publishers. For example, the Directory of Open Access Journals, DOAJ, currently hosts nearly 10,000 open-access journals, of which Binfield reckons the vast majority will be smaller publications.
FURTHER INFORMATION
LOCKSS
www.lockss.org CLOCKSS
www.clockss.org/clockss/Home Portico
www.portico.org/digital-preservation PeerJ
peerj.com Directory of Open Access Journals
www.doaj.org
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