Ensuring Perpetual Access - German National Hosting Strategy for electronic resources - Study now available

["Neil Beagrie" <neil@beagrie.com>]

Apologies for any cross-posting

I am pleased to announce that the study Ensuring Perpetual 
Access: establishing a federated strategy on perpetual access and 
hosting of electronic resources for Germany is now available in 
English from:

http://www.allianzinitiative.de/fileadmin/hosting_studie_e.pdf

The study was commissioned by the Alliance of German Science 
Organisations to help develop a strategy to address the 
challenges of perpetual access and hosting of electronic 
resources. It was requested to focus primarily on commercial 
e-journals and retro-digitised material.

Although developed for Germany, there is substantial discussion 
and recommendations around the issues of perpetual access, 
licensing of e-journals, archiving, and sustainability of hosting 
and access services for these materials, which will be of 
interest to an international audience.

Contents include:

*Discussion, definition, and glossary of terms;
*Review of relevant  international activity;
*Review of the current and future desired positions in Germany;
*Gap analysis;
*A series of use cases;
*Scenarios, potential solutions, and recommendations.

The members of the Alliance of German Science Organisations are 
the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Deutsche 
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), the 
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the German Academic Exchange Service 
(DAAD), the German Rectors' Conference 
(Hochschulrektorenkonferenz - HRK), the Helmholtz Association, 
the Leibniz Association, the Max Planck Society, and the 
Wissenschaftsrat (German Council of Science and Humanities). For 
further information on the Alliance Hosting Working Group that 
steered the study see:

English webpage:

http://www.allianzinitiative.de/en/core_activities/national_hosting_strategy/working_group/

Deutsch:

http://www.allianzinitiative.de/de/handlungsfelder/nationale_hosting_strategie/arbeitsgruppe/

Neil Beagrie
Charles Beagrie Ltd
Digital Access and Preservation
Management and Research Consultancy
Website: www.beagrie.com 
Blog: www.blog.beagrie.com