Neil Mayo (neil.mayo <at> ed.ac.uk)

EDINA, University of Edinburgh

UK LOCKSS Alliance Members' Meeting

10th May 2011

National Railway Museum, York.

Update on Activities

Update on Activities

Summary of Activities

Neil Mayo

New member of UKLA – Neil Mayo 50% time

Steering Committee and Strategic Plan

UKLA website update

LOCKSS major release 1.48

Plans for next release

Linux transitions

Membership news

Support queries

e-Journal preservation institutional policies

Update on Activities

New LOCKSS Release 1.48

Neil Mayo

Metadata Manager module

KBART Holdings Exporter module

OpenURL Resolver module

ServeContent updated to use new modules to resolve queries

UI enhancements Shift-selection of ranges Add AU by id etc

Bug fixes

Update on Activities

New LOCKSS Release 1.48

Neil Mayo

Content releases on the Global LOCKSS Network

Over 6000 articles from around 250 titles

New publishers available via new plugins:

Emerald

Springer

Annual Reviews is imminent

Improvement of metadata and its availability

Completed ISSNs (at least one ISSN, eISSN, ISSN-L)

Issue dates and volume numbers are being filled

LOCKSS boxes can now serve content to match metadata

Update on Activities

Plans for Next Release 1.49

Neil Mayo

Integration with link resolvers

360 Core (Serials Solutions)

SFX (Ex Libris)

Other vendors – work on these link resolvers can be leveraged to support other integrations.

Form for OpenURL bibliographic queries

Development of more plugins for participating publishers.

Completion of missing metadata: issue dates and volume numbers.

Update on Activities

Linux Transitions

Neil Mayo

We have been working to transition everyone to LOCKSS on Linux, an improved and more self-sufficient version.

The old OpenBSD flavour of LOCKSS has reached the end of its life and is no longer supported.

10 out of 20 libraries have made the transition.

We encourage the rest to perform the transition as soon as possible!

Adam and Neil are available to support users through the process.

Update on Activities

Membership

Neil Mayo

We have also been negotiating with a variety of other institutions this year!

De Montfort University

Durham University

King’s College London

London School of Economics

Open University

Royal Holloway, University of London

University of Birmingham

University of Bristol

University of Edinburgh

University of Glasgow

University of Hertfordshire

University of Huddersfield

University of Hull

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

University of Oxford

University of Salford

University of St Andrews

University of Sussex

University of Warwick

University of York

Sadly, 2 members have declared their intention to withdraw from the alliance this year, namely Bristol and Hull.

The main reason cited for withdrawal is lack of appropriate institutional funds. Funding is required in a variety of areas:

Hardware purchases IT maintenance of the infrastructure Library personnel to maintain/use the archived collection

The costs and benefits of digital archiving cut across disciplinary and administrative boundaries.

Update on Activities

Membership News

Neil Mayo

Update on Activities

e-Journal Archiving Costs

Neil Mayo

LOCKSS and other systems require carefully managed infrastructural support at the institutional level.

How can institutions provision appropriate cross-cutting funding to support their e-journal preservation strategy?

One of our aims is to improve the self-sufficiency and usability of LOCKSS, reducing the support burden for IT departments and the overall costs of maintenance.

Please note that LOCKSS subscription costs are remaining the same for the coming year 2011/12.

The renewal agreement can be found on the JISC Collections website.

Update on Activities

Support Queries

Neil Mayo

Adam and Neil have been dealing with support queries in the UK Alliance. This has been informative for both of us; queries have helped us to:

Isolate and fix bugs Identify workflow issues Inform future development

Interesting topics have included:

How to setup the LOCKSS UI to use SSL How to add new disks into a RAID setup

UI improvement is also on the agenda!

Update on Activities

Future Activities

Neil Mayo

LOCKSS release 1.49

More plugins and content releases

Integration with link resolvers

Completion of Linux transitions

Regular updates to http://www.lockssalliance.ac.uk/

Engagement with members of the alliance

Evaluative surveys

Continuing support

Regular reporting

Update on Activities

Stay in Touch

Neil Mayo

UK LOCKSS Alliance Website

http://www.lockssalliance.ac.uk

LOCKSS Support

edina@ed.ac.uk