encourage publishers to make their content "LOCKSS-able"

[Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>]

This conference season encourage publishers to make their content
"LOCKSS-able".

LOCKSS is a potential solution to the problem of preserving and archiving
electronic serial literature. Libraries that run a LOCKSS box can collect,
own, and preserve for the long term a copy of the electronic serials they
subscribe to, but only if the publishers give permission. For more
information about LOCKSS see:

  http://www.lockss.org/

Many publishers have said they will give permission, but fewer have added
the necessary permission pages to their web sites allowing LOCKSS
computers access. Apparently publishers are not following through because
the library community has not expressed an interest.

When you see your publisher friends this conference season, please
encourage them to make their content LOCKSS-able.

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Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University Libraries of Notre Dame

(574) 631-8604