[Web4lib] encourage publishers to make their content "LOCKSS-able"

[Eric Lease Morgan]

This conference season encourage publishers to make their content 
"LOCKSS-able".

LOCKSS is a potential solution to the problem of preserving and 
archiving electronic serial literature. Libraries that run a LOCKSS box 
can collect, own, and preserve for the long term a copy of the 
electronic serials they subscribe to, but only if the publishers give 
permission. For more information about LOCKSS see:

   http://www.lockss.org/

Many publishers have said they will give permission, but fewer have 
added the necessary permission pages to their web sites allowing LOCKSS 
computers access. Apparently publishers are not following through 
because the library community has not expressed an interest.

When you see your publisher friends this conference season, please 
encourage them to make their content LOCKSS-able.

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University Libraries of Notre Dame

(574) 631-8604