Preserving scientific electronic journals: a study of archiving initiatives

Pages83-96
Date15 February 2008
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/02640470810851761
Published date15 February 2008
AuthorGolnessa Galyani Moghaddam
Subject MatterInformation & knowledge management,Library & information science
Preserving scientific electronic
journals: a study of archiving
initiatives
Golnessa Galyani Moghaddam
Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, Shahed University,
Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Purpose – This paper seeks to review the archiving initiatives of scientific journals created and
supported by various organizations or institutions.
Design/methodology/approach – A review of nine archiving initiatives including JSTOR, Portico,
E-Print Repositories, Open Access Model, LOCKSS, OCLC Digital Archive, JISC PubMed Central and
KB e-Depot was carried out. The paper focuses mainly on the initiatives by employing an analytical
approach.
Research limitations/implications – There is a wide range of archiving initiatives around the
world, making it difficult for the author to carry out a comprehensive review. Nevertheless, limiting its
focus to the nine existing initiatives, this paper provides a useful overview.
Originality/value – The paper provides a useful starting-point to anyone who wants toknow about
the archiving for posterity of scientific electronic journals and enables people to quickly achieve an
overview of the existing archiving initiatives to date.
Keywords Digital storage,Archiving, Archiving management,Electronic journals
Paper type General review
Introduction
Scientific journals have played a very prominent role in the scholarly communication
system for many years. With a migration from print to digital environment, scientific
communication is not possible without reliable access to the accumulated scholarship
of the past; therefore, preserving scientific electronic journals has become one of the
important concerns for digital librarians in recent years. Many stakeholders of
scientific publishing have begun to consider the importance of electronic archiving and
have taken initial steps to meet their responsibility effectively. The new concerns of
electronic archiving led to a series of meetings over the past few years among
publishers, librarians, and technologists sponsored by a variety of organizations. In
order to manage the archiving issues, different initiatives and projects were created by
various organizations and institutions. As librarians are concerned about what should
be archived, who should be responsible for the archiving process, how the materials
should be archived and where they should be archived, so the study of various existing
archiving models is essential for digital librarians. Some of these initiatives and models
such as JSTOR, Portico, E-Print Repositories, Open Access Model, LOCKSS, OCLC
Digital Archive, JISC, PubMed Central and KB e-Depot were studied using an
analytical approach in this paper.
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A study of
archiving
initiatives
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Received 15 March 2007
Revised 29 March 2007
Accepted 30 March 2007
The Electronic Library
Vol. 26 No. 1, 2008
pp. 83-96
qEmerald Group Publishing Limited
0264-0473
DOI 10.1108/02640470810851761

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