Advice sought on preservation/continuing access for e-books

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

Apologies for any-cross-posting - forwarded from the digital 
preservation list on behalf of Liz Mallett (email 
e.a.mallett@open.ac.uk)

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Preservation of ebooks

Hello all,

I am currently looking into preservation issues around academic 
ebooks. So far my perceptions are that they are treated in much 
the same way as ejournals because access to ebook content tends 
to be via the publisher or aggregator through library 
subscriptions.

My investigations have uncovered Portico as being the most 
developed programme for preservation of this kind of content, but 
I wonder if I am missing something.

Does anyone on the list specialise in this area? Could anyone 
give me any pointers?

Many thanks

Liz

Elizabeth Mallett
Research and Innovation Projects Manager
Library and Learning Resources Centre
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA

Tel: 01908 659 806