Preservation in the Digital Age—Ensuring Sustainable Scholarship

AAUP Annual Meeting, June 24, 2014

Stephanie OrphanDirector of Publisher Relations, Portico

Portico is committed to the preservation of

scholarly literature published in electronic

form to ensure that these materials remain

accessible to future generations of scholars,

researchers, and students.

Portico’s Preservation Services

» E-Journal(2005)

» E-Book(2008)

» D-Collections(2009)

Community Model

Publisher Supported

Why Preserve?

» Protection of the future of our scholarly heritage is a public good

» Access to scholarly materials depends on their being fit for use over time

» For both print and electronic materials, preservation is necessary to ensure the long-term usability of scholarly content

Preserving Scholarship

» Preservation combats loss due to deterioration or disappearance

» Digital objects present additional concerns

» Format obsolescence

» Loss of funding = loss of sustainability

Shift from Print to Digital/Shift in Philosophy

» Where does the preservation responsibility rest...content owners, libraries, cultural institutions, publishers, third parties . . .?

» Economies of scale through shared preservation responsibility

» Trustworthy digital preservation solutions must be sought and implemented for the benefit of the entire scholarly community

Digital preservation is the series of management policies and activities necessary to ensure the enduring

usabilityauthenticitydiscoverabilityaccessibility

of content over the very long-term.

» Reformatting from print to digital for access surrogates or product line expansion

» Back-up or byte storage on various media

» Carried out within systems optimized for ongoing, daily access

Digital Preservation is Not . . .

» Ulrich’s lists 45,301 “active” academic/scholarly journals available online

» 9,053 are e-only (20%)

» Books—Project Muse: 28,000; Books@JSTOR: 27,000; UPSO (Oxford): 15,000; UPO (Cambridge): 20,000

» Portico—» 220,000+ e-books committed for preservation (from the

above and others—63 publishers)

» 18,000+ e-journals committed for preservation (211 publishers)

E-Content in 2014

» Publishers are creating more complex products » Reference databases or other digital products based on print

volumes

» E-only taking advantage of new technologies

» New forms of scholarship emerging

» Requires preservation decisions regarding content type and business model

» Basic tenets of preservation continue to apply

E-Content in 2014

Stephanie OrphanDirector of Publisher Relations, Portico

609-986-2226stephanie.orphan@portico.org

www.portico.org

Thank you!