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LOCKSS are key to joined up journal pilot. JISC and CURL partner to secure long-term journal access with pilot project based on US LOCKSS system, writes Tracey Caldwell.
Libraries stand to lose access to e-journal back runs if they cancel their subscriptions, or the publisher goes bust. In a bid to protect these information assets, JISC and the Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL) have joined up to pilot the US-based LOCKSS system.
LOCKSS (lots of copies keep stuff safe) has 50 academic library members in the US. The web-based system integrates with a library's web proxy and caches e-journal content so that if it becomes unavailable from the publisher, the resource can be accessed directly from the library's LOCKSS cache.
Helen Hockx-Yu, programme manager at JISC, said libraries are looking at a cost of [pounds sterling]600 for the hardware needed for LOCKSS over four and a half years.
The pilot will be set-up in December, after which participants will be selected. "In the pilot programme we will ...
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