After a bit of digging I found the JISC study at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/e-prints_report_final.pdf
Best wishes, Linda On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:14:39 +0000 Steve Hitchcock <[email protected]> wrote: > Concerns have been expressed about preservation of eprints stored in > institutional archives, e.g. see this JISC study > Feasibility and requirements study on preservation of e-prints > http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/e-prints_report_1-0.pdf > which led to this paper in D-Lib > The Digital Preservation of e-Prints > http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september03/pinfield/09pinfield.html > > With regard to institutional eprints Stevan Harnad has noted: > >There is a confusing and misleading emphasis on preservation. Yes, > >of course it is good to preserve these self-archived materials, and > >they can and will be preserved (ArXiv has been online and cumulating > >continuously since 1991); but the substantive issue here is *access* > >not preservation! The real preservation problem is for the publishers' > >primary toll-access version, online and on-paper. These self-archived > >eprints are merely *supplements* to that, publicly archived so as to > >maximise access to them, right now. They are not *substitutes* for the > >primary publishers' version. It is a mistake to overstress this > >access supplement as if it were *the* primary preservation corpus. > > In this context there may be some interest in the announcement on Friday > October 31 that the UK Government passed the Legal Deposit Act extending to > digital publications. The actual Act is at > http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmbills/026/03026.1-6.html > and the British Library press release is at > http://www.bl.uk/cgi-bin/press.cgi?story=1382 > > It is also worth noting the comments of Anthony Watkinson, a publisher with > experience of these processes: > > >It is probable that the statutory > >instruments next year will start with off-line but on-line will follow quite > >soon and (although web-site sampling is part of the picture) it is scholarly > >e-journals that are of main interest i.e. publications. To my mind e-only > >journals are the most important though the normative e-version of journals > >available in print also are diverging from print and thus become more > >important to preserve. > > There are still some practical issues to resolve, not least because the > Government department involved only revealed the draft very late in the day > "to the fury and exasperation of the library and publishing sectors", > relating to omissions in earlier readings > http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:iFKXGxJB6NcJ:www.alpsp.org/news/LegDep15-6-03.pdf+uk+legal+deposit+act&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 > > But the thrust of the bill towards publications is clear. > > Steve Hitchcock > IAM Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science > University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK > Email: [email protected] > Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3256 Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 2865 ---------------------- Linda Humphreys Science Faculty Librarian University of Bath Claverton Down Bath BA2 7AY [email protected] 01225 385248
