Re: What if open access publishers close down

["James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@stanford.edu>]

I think David and I are thinking along similar lines.

I think my question was probably not clear.  I was thinking that, even
though something is open and available, it does not necessarily follow
that someone is going to be retrieving, organizing, and storing it. I was
wondering if people had efforts underway to make sure that something which
may be archived actually does get archived.

I'm somewhat familier with the LOCKSS project, since it has associations
with my own department. However, my understanding of LOCKSS is that it's
meant as a fail-safe, one operating on a grand scale of peer-to-peer
networking to ensure validity, but still thought it was meant as a
fail-safe which keeps a static copy of content. Perhaps I'm mistaken in
that understanding.

If an operation along the lines of BMC were to shut down, would another
group be ready to host and maintain all of the content, the nicely indexed
pages, search features, and so forth?  In other words, take up the former
role of a defunct open access provider?

Jim