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Archiving in the networked world: open access journals

Michael Seadle (Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Berlin, Germany)

Library Hi Tech

ISSN: 0737-8831

Article publication date: 14 June 2011

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how extensively LOCKSS/CLOCKSS, Portico, and e‐Depot provide long‐term digital archiving for the journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Design/methodology/approach

The paper uses publicly available online data, which are processed in a set of PERL programs to measure the number of DOAJ articles in the three archiving systems.

Findings

The findings show that only 8 per cent of the DOAJ titles are in LOCKSS/CLOCKSS and only 5 per cent in Portico. The findings also suggest that it could take eight years to archive all full text DOAJ articles in e‐Depot based on current plans.

Practical implications

The most important implication is that most open access titles listed in DOAJ currently have no effective long‐term digital archiving.

Originality/value

The paper investigates how extensively LOCKSS/CLOCKSS, Portico, and e‐Depot provide long‐term digital archiving for the journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

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Citation

Seadle, M. (2011), "Archiving in the networked world: open access journals", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 29 No. 2, pp. 394-404. https://doi.org/10.1108/07378831111138251

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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