PEPRS Overview
The purpose of this two-year project is to scope, build and test a pilot service for keeping track of which electronic journals have arrangements in place for digital preservation so that journal articles can be accessed over the long term.
Why are we doing this?
There is general consensus that digital preservation is important and several schemes and organisations are now emerging. But there is no systematic source of information about who is doing what for each e-journal: preservation arrangements, policies and access arrangements.
What is it for?
PEPRS will develop, on a pilot basis, appropriate services to provide users with information about preservation arrangements (if any) for electronic journals. It is hoped that the evaluation of the pilot service will become the basis for an operational service.
How will it help?
The service will bring together information about journals and their preservation situation, providing easily accessible information about preservation arrangements and highlighting those e-journals for which no preservation arrangements exist.
Who could it benefit?
The service will bring together information about journals and their preservation situation, providing easily accessible information about preservation arrangements and highlighting those e-journals for which no preservation arrangements exist. This service will be of benefit to policy makers, librarians and publishers, and by implication to researchers.
When will it happen?
The project started on 1st August 2008 and will run until 31st July 2010. There will be a formal review of the demonstrator at 18 months into the Project to assess whether or not progress to a service can and will be supported.
