Establishing a UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme
(2006) Establishing a UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme.
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Abstract
This article describes the UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme, an initiative funded by the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) in partnership with the Consortium of Research
Libraries in the British Isles (CURL). The Pilot directly engages a number of selected UK HE
institutions in trailing the LOCKSS technology for e-journal archiving and preservation.
LOCKSS (for Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an initiative that has been developed by
Stanford University Libraries. It involves an alliance of over 80 libraries and 60 publishers worldwide,
working together to preserve persistent access to licensed e-journal content from publishers
to libraries. The Pilot is funded under JISC’s development programme area Digital Preservation
and Records Management. This article describes the rationale to establish the pilot programme,
the aims and objectives and, in detail, the individual components of the programme.
| Keywords: | Digital Preservation, Archiving Electronic Journals, LOCKSS, JISC, UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme |
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| Subjects: | J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JH. Digital preservation. |
| ID Code: | 7354 |
| Deposited By: | Hockx-Yu, Helen |
| Deposited On: | 06 October 2006 |
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