Duke University Press, Duke Libraries to support long-term strategies for preserving electronic content

[Kimberly Steinle <ksteinle@dukeupress.edu>]

Apologies for cross postings.

For immediate release: Nov. 8, 2006

CONTACT: Mandy Dailey-Berman (Duke University Press, Journals Publicity
Coordinator)
mdberman@dukeupress.edu

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, DUKE LIBRARIES TO SUPPORT LONG-TERM STRATEGIES
FOR PRESERVING ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY JOURNAL CONTENT

DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University Press and Duke University 
Libraries will be participating in Portico and the LOCKSS (Lots 
of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Alliance, two long-term strategies to 
preserve electronic scholarly journal content for future 
scholars, school officials announced Wednesday.

"The mandate to preserve scholarly work is an implicit and 
critical component of a library's mission and one that has been 
vastly complicated by both the shift to electronic publishing and 
the fiscal challenges that libraries now face," says Kimberly 
Steinle, Duke University Press's library relations manager. 
"Portico and LOCKSS offer libraries reliable solutions to these 
problems, securing perpetual access to archived online content, 
while also eliminating the financial burden of creating an 
archive."

Kevin L. Smith, scholarly communication officer at Duke, adds, 
"We recognize that academic research libraries such as those here 
at Duke University need to invest in digital repositories that 
help scholars maintain access to and control of their research 
product at various stages. Both LOCKSS and Portico represent 
substantive progress on the broad issue of electronic archiving."

Portico was launched in 2005 with support from JSTOR, Ithaka, the 
Library of Congress and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 
Portico's mission is to preserve scholarly literature published 
in electronic form and to ensure that it remains accessible to 
future generations of scholars, researchers, and students. In 
pursuit of this mission, Portico operates a secure, permanent 
archive of electronic scholarly journals. To date, more than 
5,200 journals have been promised to the Portico archive, and a 
broad range of scholarly publishers and libraries have chosen to 
participate in Portico as an important component of their 
archiving strategy.

Initiated by Stanford University Libraries, LOCKSS is open source 
software that provides librarians with an easy and inexpensive 
way to collect, store, preserve, and provide access to the local 
copy of authorized content they purchase. Running on standard 
desktop hardware and requiring almost no technical 
administration, LOCKSS provides accessible copies of e-journal 
content as it is published.

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Kimberly Steinle
Library Relations Manager
Duke University Press
905 West Main Street, Suite 18-B
Durham, NC 27701
919-687-3655 (ph) 919-688-3524 (fax)
ksteinle@dukeupress.edu
www.dukeupress.edu