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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
www.portico.org
Thank you!