Digital Preservation: The Library Perspective

Digital Preservation: The Library Perspective

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Colin Meddings of Oxford University Press conducted research within the academic library community on digital preservation and what their opinions were regarding the matter. Specifically focusing on digital preservation in term of “the preservation of electronic scholarly literature with the goal of ensuring materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students.” As a means of building “on and complement recent research done by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) into publisher strategies for preservation.” That said, the basis of the survey involved librarians from across the world sharing information on what it is their libraries doing “in regard to digital preservation, as well as opinions on digital preservation issues.” As a result of that, findings have shown that the situation around digital preservation is an ongoing evolution, highlighting the need for additional/continuous education on digital preservation issues. Due to the fact that, the number of online journals is equal to or less than the ever-present changes in the journals supply, content licensed in an electronic format among other things. What’s more, “Digital preservation is sometimes a function of libraries, sometimes of publishers, a combination of the two, or done by a third party on behalf of both.”

Oxford University Press

Jan-June, 2011

Hannah Baker

Journal Article

Meddings, Colin. “Digital Preservation: The Library Perspective.” Serials Librarian 60, no. 1-4 (2011): 55–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2011.556437.