« The digital preservation service Portico (www.portico.org) is pleased to announce the University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, as its 1,000th participating library.
Since its inception in 2006, libraries have relied on Portico to preserve academic e-journals, e-books, and other digital scholarship, and ensure that it remains available…
« What is the place of print in the digital age? That fundamental question, along with a thoughtful sequence of publications and conversations conducted over the past 20 years, inform the draft white paper, “Concerted Thought, Collaborative Action, and the Future of the Print Record,” by the multi-organization Working…
« The International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA) — a global coalition of several major research and academic library associations in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States — recognises the significance of preservation of the scholarly record.
IARLA fully endorses Working Together to Ensure the…
(…) We believe the NLM must play a key role in preserving data…
« PKP [Public Knowledge Project] has developed a Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) to digitally preserve OJS journals. The LOCKSS program offers decentralized and distributed preservation, seamless perpetual access, and preservation of the authentic original version of the content. The PKP PLN…
« OCLC and Internet Archive today announced the results of a year-long cooperative effort to ensure the future sustainability of purl.org. The organizations have worked together to build a new sustainable service hosted by Internet Archive that will manage persistent URLs and sub-domain redirections for purl.org,…
« Libraries around the world are moving rapidly to holding digital collections, but will all those bits and bytes be here in the future? ITHAKA, a not-for-profit leader in developing new solutions to advance and preserve knowledge, is making sure the answer to that question is yes.…
« Fin 2012, l’INRA a fait le choix de HAL pour archiver et diffuser les revues qu’il édite ou a éditées. HAL permet ainsi à l’INRA de répondre à la fois à sa volonté de promouvoir le libre accès et aux nécessités d’une conservation pérenne : la diffusion des revues…
« .. The ongoing educational, research, and entertainment missions of libraries and other cultural organizations rely on standards that underlie interoperability and data exchange, unique identifiers and authority control, ontologies, barcodes, patron management, resource sharing, discovery, web-based services, software, digital collections, preservation, metadata management, bibliographic control, and resource layout. Greater…
