Proquest archival newspapers - self hosting?

[Salazar, Christina]

Hi Stacy,

I’m interested to hear how this plays out too. We’re not in this position yet, but I always assumed that places like ProQuest offered files, knowing that it’d be kind of difficult to provide access to them.

I wonder if you could use a digital repository system such as Fedora or DSpace to offer access? These are both open source, but I would say that setting these up, if you don’t have either already running, is nontrivial.

Library-land should be more worried about digital preservation of vendor created assets than we currently seem to be anyway.

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198
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Proquest is now providing us with files of the archival newspapers we purchased from them.  They say that there are no libraries that are self-hosting access to this data, and predicted that the cost of creating a platform to search the metadata and deliver the TIFFs would be costly.

I've attached their metadata sample file.  Does anyone have suggestions on the software we could use to provide access to this material?  We'd prefer an open-source solution.  The reason we are not paying the platform fees for this material is because they got very little use. We can't justify spending funds on a proprietary software solution for this, because the material is not in great demand at our library.

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Stacy Pober
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Manhattan College Library
Riverdale, NY 10471
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