RE: concepts of perpetuity

["William W Armstrong" <notwwa@lsu.edu>]

Actually, Portico offers two categories of service: one, the core
activity, related to preservation and, hence, "perpetual access"
in one sense; the other sense of "perpetual access" involves
providing long-term access to specific content to subscribers who
have cancelled their subscriptions to this content with a given
publisher, as long as that publisher has signed an agreement with
Portico allowing them to do this, i.e., act as third party
post-cancellation provider.

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William W. Armstrong
Collection Development Coordinator, LSU Libraries
Chemistry Librarian
Liaison to Physics & Astronomy
Middleton Library
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
Email: notwwa@lsu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu on behalf of Sally Morris
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 3:43 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: concepts of perpetuity

What Portico and other preservation activities are doing is great
and extremely important, but I don't believe it's actually what
libraries are looking for when they say 'perpetual access'.  We
are still mixing up very different issues.

I really wish we could abolish the phrase 'perpetual access'
entirely, and say 'continuing access' or even 'post-cancellation
access' for the licence term that triggered this discussion, and
'long-term preservation (and emergency access)' for the
Portico-like efforts.  Nobody can say 'for ever'!

Sally Morris
Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy)
South House, The Street
Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email:  sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Eileen Fenton
Sent: 29 August 2008 03:02
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: concepts of perpetuity

Although removed from Ann's original question, this thread has
brought into sharp relief the challenges associated with the
assurance of continuing or "perpetual" access to e-journals.
Provision of subscribed-to content on media is neither practical
for publishers and libraries, as Tracey Thompson so clearly
notes, nor does it assure the viable long-term preservation that
enables access.

At Portico, a not-for-profit archive of scholarly literature
published in electronic form, we are addressing the need for
active, long-term preservation and ongoing access. Portico is
preserving nearly 8,000 journals and more than 4,400 e-books on
behalf of its library and publisher participants.  For
approximately 85% of the e-journals and all of the e-books,
publishers have designated Portico as one means to meet
libraries' ongoing access needs.  So if a library that
participates in Portico has cancelled a license, they may turn to
the Portico archive for ongoing access without resort to locally
loaded, managed, and maintained tapes, CDs or servers.

Nearly 470 libraries from around the world, including many
smaller or mid-size libraries that have not traditionally
considered preservation a part of their mandate, now rely upon
and support the Portico archive. This broad base of support
expresses the new reality that long-term digital preservation is
as essential to continuing access to e-journals as physical
shelves have been for print materials.

Eileen Fenton
Executive Director, Portico
www.portico.org
609.986.2215
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