2005 SSP 27th Annual Meeting
Concurrent 4A – Does Your Content Have a Future? Digital Preservation
Today thousands of journals are available in digital format, and electronic-only subscriptions are becoming more pervasive. The attraction of electronic publishing is obvious and tremendous. But with this, there is a heightened sense of vulnerability and urgency. Without credible, robust, and diverse archiving solutions, the content essential to the functioning of our scholarly communication system, and the material that underpins our intellectual heritage, are subject to technological failures and obsolescence. Unless actively preserved, it may be lost over time. Much work is being done to address this enormous challenge. What is evident from these efforts is that this is an international, community-wide problem requiring collaboration, creativity, and compromise if it is to be successfully addressed. In this session you will hear from community leaders about how they view the archiving challenge and how their thinking about solutions has developed within the specific context of their organizations.
Speakers
Victoria Reich
Victoria Reich is the Director of the LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Library, www.lockss.org. The 450 publishers preserving their content in the Global LOCKSS Network enable libraries to fulfill a core library mission – to build and preserve digital library collections. They have ensured their intellectual property and branding are available to authorized readers when their own web sites are unavailable. Using the award winning LOCKSS technology to build and preserve local collections, libraries are guaranteed perpetual access to authorized scholarly content while also delivering all reader traffic to the publishers’ web sites. Vicky helped to launch the CLOCKSS Archive and HighWire Press. She has extensive library experience, having held positions at Stanford University Libraries, the National Agricultural Library, the Library of Congress, and the University of Michigan. Victoria is on several Advisory Boards, including “Stanford Copyright & Fair Use”. She received the 2008 Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award.
Jeffrey Horrell
Abby Smith
Heather Joseph
