Legal deposit and preservation of digital publications: a review of research and development activity

Muir, Adrienne

doi:10.1108/eum0000000007097

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“…However, there are many practical challenges. Concepts, principles and practices that are accepted and understood in the print environment, such as publication, publisher, and place of publication, may have new meanings or no longer be appropriate in a networked environment (Muir, 2001). National deposit libraries in partnership with other libraries, publishers and technology vendors have been actively exploring these challenges and the technology issues involved.…”

Section: Legal Depositmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preservation, Trust and Continuing Access for e-Journals

Beagrie¹

2013

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ForewordThe Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is an advocate and catalyst for digital preservation, ensuring our members can deliver resilient long-term access to digital content and services. It is a not-for-profit membership organization whose primary objective is to raise awareness of the importance of the preservation of digital material and the attendant strategic, cultural and technological issues. It supports its members through knowledge exchange, capacity building, assurance, advocacy and partnership. The DPC's vision is to make our digital memory accessible tomorrow.The DPC Technology Watch Reports identify, delineate, monitor and address topics that have a major bearing on ensuring our collected digital memory will be available tomorrow. They provide an advanced introduction in order to support those charged with ensuring a robust digital memory, and they are of general interest to a wide and international audience with interests in computing, information management, collections management and technology. The reports are commissioned after consultation among DPC members about shared priorities and challenges; they are commissioned from experts; and they are thoroughly scrutinized by peers before being released. The authors are asked to provide reports that are informed, current, concise and balanced; that lower the barriers to participation in digital preservation; and that they are of wide utility. The reports are a distinctive and lasting contribution to the dissemination of good practice in digital preservation.The report is published by the DPC in association with Charles Beagrie Ltd. Neil Beagrie, Director of Consultancy at Charles Beagrie Ltd, was commissioned to act as principal investigator for, and managing editor of, this Series in 2011 and has authored this report. He has been further supported by an Editorial Board drawn from DPC members and peer reviewers who comment on text prior to release: William Kilbride (Chair), Janet Delve (University of Portsmouth), Sarah Higgins (University of Aberystwyth), Marc Fresko (Inforesight), Tim Keefe (Trinity College Dublin), Andrew McHugh (University of Glasgow) and Dave Thompson (Wellcome Library). AcknowledgementsThe author is grateful to William Kilbride for taking on the role of acting managing editor for this report, to Daphne Charles for reading drafts, and to attendees at the DPC workshop on e-journal archiving and colleagues who gave their time commenting and helping to shape the outline of the report's contents. Particular and substantial thanks are due to David Rosenthal and Vicky Reich (LOCKSS), Adam Rusbridge (UK LOCKSS Alliance), Liam Earney and Lorraine Estelle (Jisc Collections), Neil Grindley (Jisc), Kate Wittenberg (Portico), Marcel Ras and Barbara Sierman (KB), and Randy Kiefer (CLOCKSS). Over the years I have been privileged to work with a number of colleagues on e-journal archiving studies including Maggie Jones, Julia Chruszcz, Najla Rettberg, Mary Auckland, Terry Morrow, and Matthias Hemmje and staff at Globale Informationstech...

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Section: Legal Depositmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preservation, Trust and Continuing Access for e-Journals

Beagrie¹

2013

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“…Legal deposit of electronic publications is subject to numerous, often unique challenges such as the legal deposit process, legal issues and infrastructure required. Some of these have been reported on (Muir, 2001;HockxYu, 2006), while many issues are only scantily covered in the subject literature. Literature reviews have been published about specific issues such as electronic books (Kumbhar, 2012), library digitisation issues (Lopatin, 2006), digital preservation management in Eastern Africa (Mutala, 2014), digital library research including organisational and people issues (Liew, 2009), and multilinguality in digital libraries (Diemeka, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Literature reviews have been published about specific issues such as electronic books (Kumbhar, 2012), library digitisation issues (Lopatin, 2006), digital preservation management in Eastern Africa (Mutala, 2014), digital library research including organisational and people issues (Liew, 2009), and multilinguality in digital libraries (Diemeka, 2012). Only Muir compiled a literature review specifically about legal deposit and preservation of digital publications (Muir, 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

Legal deposit of electronic books – a review of challenges faced by national libraries

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges faced by national libraries regarding the legal deposit of electronic books, and to make recommendations for issues to consider – especially with regard to developing, planning and implementing. Design/methodology/approach – Literature published from 2000 to 2014 on legal deposit of electronic publications was examined. Key databases covering library and information science were searched, and case studies, general reviews, research papers/reports and view point articles were considered. Findings – National libraries embarking on projects on legal deposit of electronic books need to consider the collection, preservation and accessibility of the legal deposit collection. They face challenges regarding legal deposit legislation and institutional policy, legal considerations such as copyright, environmental factors, established mechanisms for deposit, information retrieval and access, preservation, human resources, financial implications and trust. Further research and continued monitoring of issues of concern and changes are required due to technological developments and the obsolescence of technology. Practical implications – The review raises awareness of issues that need to be considered by national libraries and other repositories to manage the legal deposit of electronic books in their institutions. Originality/value – The review can serve as a guide for nations (particularly in developing countries) to embark on the legal deposit of electronic publications, specifically electronic books.

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“…Such institutions would have to move from a pull-based model of acquiring digital assets (wherein they take the online assets as they wish) to either a push-based model (wherein they receive the assets packaged with metadata) or a modified pull-based model in which, after establishing a relationship with the college they harvest known assets and metadata (cf Muir, 2001). …”

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confidence: 99%

“…This is, not least because such assets require not only the physical preservation of the asset but the preservation, emulation, or creation of appropriate technology to make the asset accessible, and, in some cases, enough ancillary information to make the asset comprehensible. This challenge of maintaining access to digital assets over time has been discussed extensively (see, for example : Cordeiro, 2004;Muir, 2001) and is the subject of both substantial funding initiatives and growing support and advisory networks. In the UK this has been exemplified by the Joint Information Systems Committee's (JISC's) Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions programme (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_404) and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) (http://www.dcc.ac.uk).…”

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Digital preservation in the tertiary education sector: management implications

Robertson

2006

Library Review

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Structured abstract:Purpose This paper assesses the future of long-term curation and preservation of digital assets with particular reference to Further Education (FE) in the UK. Methodology/ApproachReviews current requirements of digital preservation and the efforts underway to support them. Drawing on other recent work and the author's experience in a recent development project it subsequently comments on these efforts in the context of FE. FindingsArgues that the long-term curation and preservation of digital assets produced by further education colleges should not be the responsibility of those colleges. Research limitations/implicationsWritten with direct reference to the UK; how the suggested solution would be applied elsewhere remains undeveloped. Practical implicationsNational memory institutions should strive to establish collaborative curatorial practices with the FE sector. Originality/value of paperSuggests that the preservation of digital assets in the FE sector requires a different approach than the HE sector.

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Legal deposit and preservation of digital publications: a review of research and development activity

Cited by 19 publications

References 9 publications

Preservation, Trust and Continuing Access for e-Journals

Preservation, Trust and Continuing Access for e-Journals

Legal deposit of electronic books – a review of challenges faced by national libraries

Digital preservation in the tertiary education sector: management implications

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