Bringing publishers into LOCKSS

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Bringing publishers into LOCKSS

• Paul Harwood
• Content Complete Ltd

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Agenda

• Who are we?
• Our role in the JISC programme
• Our suitability for the role
• NESLi2 Publishers and LOCKSS
• Key issues in discussions
• Progress to-date

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Who is Content Complete?

• JISCs Negotiation Agent for NESLi2
• Handle negotiations for a number of other clients
  in the public and private sectors
• Currently also coordinating a number of trials of
  online journal business models on behalf of JISC
  to commence in 2006
• All three of us are here today!

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Our role in the LOCKSS project

• To secure the participation of an agreed list of
  publishers in the LOCKSS initiative
• Introduce them to the concept and discuss issues
  involved
• To obtain their permission for the LOCKSS system
  to collect and preserve the licensed journals
• To secure this permission by way of wording in
  the NESLi2 Licence or Letter of Agreement
• To keep all NESLi2 institutions informed of the
  permissions given by publishers

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Our suitability for the role

• Ongoing contact and communication with leading
  scholarly publishers through our negotiation
  activity
• Strong appreciation of the importance of this
  subject in general to librarians (recent ICOLC
  statement at) www.library.yale.edu/consortia/ICOL
  CPresRelease11-16-05.htm
• Specific negotiations with publishers regarding
  post-termination access requirements of the
  NESLi2 Licence (Clause 8.4!)

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Status of NESLi2 publishers and LOCKSS

• Based on 2005 and 2006 NESLi2 publishers, the
  following are already participating in LOCKSS or
  are in the process
• Annual Reviews
• AAAS (Science Online)
• BMJ Publishing Group
• Project MUSE
• OUP

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Status of NESLi2 publishers and LOCKSS

• Blackwell Publishing and Nature Publishing Group
  both have representatives on the LOCKSS Board and
  are taking soundings from the market

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Status of NESLi2 publishers and LOCKSS

• Our target list is therefore
• American Chemical Society
• British Psychological Society
• Elsevier (including Cell Press)
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• Taylor Francis
• (Plus hasten on the process with BPL and NPG)

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Other publishers

• Provision has been made for a further group of
  publishers to be included in the discussions
  about participation
• NESLi2 institutions will be polled to determine
  candidates to approach in 2006
• These could include some of the 2004 NESLi2
  publishers (CUP, Springer, Wiley)

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Discussion issues with publishers

• Benefits to publishers of participation
• Technical requirements
• Security and robustness of the system
• Letters of Agreement or suitable licensing
  clause
• Financial implications
• How LOCKSS compares with alternative solutions

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Progress to-date

• Background document prepared and sent to target
  publishers
• Preliminary meetings with BPS, Elsevier and TF
• Meeting with RSC in mid-December
• Appointments being made for January with
  remaining publishers

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• Thank you for your attention
• pharwood_at_contentcomplete.com
• www.contentcomplete.com
• www.NESLi2.ac.uk