Peter Burnhill

Digital preservation of electronic serials has been a matter of concern to the library community for over a decade. Reviewing the current preservation landscape, there is evidence of progress but also of the need for further work. A group of institutions that work together as part of the Keepers Registry has made great progress in preserving increa...

As the scholarly communication system evolves to become natively web based, citations now commonly include hyperlinks to content that is issued on the web. The content at the end of those hyperlinks is subject to what has been termed ‘reference rot’: a link may break or the content at the end of the link may no longer represent what was first noted...

This written celebration of 40 years of the ISSN Network is written in two parts. The first takes its starting point in about 1995, about halfway in the life of the ISSN Network, when the Internet was well established and the Web was beginning to have significance for scholarly communication. As this was also when contact was made with the ISSN Int...

A Legacy of Inspiration and an Enduring Smile

The preservation of traditional, digital scholarly output, such as PDF or HTML journal articles, is relatively well understood, and adequately organized through systems such as Portico and LoCKSS. However, the scholarly record is expanding with a wide variety of materials for which no established archival approaches exist. This includes, for exampl...

A key task for libraries is to ensure access for their patrons to the scholarly statements now found across the Internet. Three stories reveal progress towards success in that task. The context of these stories is the shift from print to digital format for all types of continuing resources, particularly journals, and the need to archive not just se...

A key task for libraries is to ensure access for their patrons to the scholarly statements now found across the Internet. Three stories reveal progress towards success in that task. The context of these stories is the shift from print to digital format for all types of continuing resources, particularly journals, and the need to archive not just se...

Things are moving quickly on the policy front with respect to the roads to Open Access with renewed focus on Gold Open Access. Gold OA is essentially the purchase of a service from a publisher: that the Publisher’s (or Published) Final Copy is made available under specified terms of Open Access. This is in contrast to the Green Road to Open Access,...

A number of organizations now take responsibility for preserving e-journals, but there exists an overall lack of information about where e-journals are archived and what arrangements exist for access. Piloting an E-journals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS) is a two-year funded project with the objective of exploring the provision of pilot serv...

The need for a registry of archived scholarly publications features in various reports on digital preservation and archiving of e-journals. Online access to scholarly journals brings many benefits. However, there are genuine concerns about long-term access, given threats from natural disaster, human folly and technological failure. Fortunately thes...

How many years of inexperience do we need in using, and in particular sharing, digital data generated by others? That history pre-dates, but must also gain leverage from, the emergence of the digital library. Much of this sharing was done within research groups but recent attention to spatial data infrastructure highlights the importance of achievi...

EDINA has been funded to undertake a variety of repository-related development activities to enhance and support access to scholarly and learning objects in the UK. JORUM is a national learning object repository for sharing and repurposing educational materials. The purpose of the Depot is to ensure that all UK academics can enjoy the benefits of O...

EDINA has been funded to undertake a variety of repository-related development activities to enhance and support access to scholarly and learning objects in the UK. JORUM is a national learning object repository for sharing and repurposing educational materials. The purpose of the Depot is to ensure that all UK academics can enjoy the benefits of O...

The paper sets out to re-assess the role for SUNCAT as national union serials catalogue, considering how it might move beyond its original remit as a simple route to discover and locate serials, to be a component in a system that also supports request and access to serial content. This is set within the context of the needs of scholarly communicati...

Purpose – The purpose of this article it to investigate the design, and to implement the set‐up of the national union catalogue for those serials which can be accessed at the research libraries of the UK, the aim being to: enable researchers to locate serials held; to assist upgrade of library OPACs; and to provide a component within the UK digital...

We describe the aims and aspirations for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), the UK response to the realisation that digital information is both essential and fragile. We recognise the equivalence of preservation as "interoperability with the future", asserting that digital curation is concerned with "communication across time". We see the DCC as ha...

SUNCAT will be the UK national union catalogue of journals and other serials. It will have two aims: to be a 'digital library' locate service for serials held in other than one's own library and to be a source of good catalogue records to enable contributing libraries to upgrade their OPACs. SUNCAT is also the name given to the project that is carr...

Following successful trials in six United Kingdom university map collections, the EDINA Digimap web-based mapping service was launched on 10 January 2000. Digimap gives access to current Ordnance Survey of Great Britain (OS) maps ranging in scale from 1:1,250 to 1:250,000 and also to the raw digital map data. This paper looks at the background to t...

The advent of the virtual library is usually presented as a welcome development for library users. Unfortunately, the emphasis which is often placed upon convenience of access tends to reinforce the perception of the use of information resources as a solitary activity. In fact, information retrieval (IR) in the conventional library is often a highl...

The advent of the virtual library is usually presented as a welcome development for library users. Unfortunately, the emphasis which is often placed upon convenience of access tends to reinforce the perception of the use of information resources as a solitary activity. In fact, information retrieval (IR) in the conventional library is often a highl...

Using data from the ESRC Research Activity and Publications Information Database (RAPID), this is a report of an investigation that differs from ‘traditional bibliometrics’. With the aid of a data model that prompts an initial focus on the research project rather than those research publications that are easy to see, evidence was uncovered on the v...

This paper uses the Scottish School Leavers' Survey series to estimate the net effects of parental education and parental social class, first, on a child's attainment of qualifications for entry to higher education and, second, on the chances of entry to higher education conditional on qualifying. Attention is given both to the university sector an...

Our purpose is to review the suitability and generality of data curation practices and principles developed in the social, political and economic sciences for use in the life and physical sciences. The secondary analysis of data, generated by third parties, in the social and economic sciences prompted the growth of data archives and data libraries,...

Sharing of scholarly content through a network of Open Access repositories is becoming commonplace but there is still need for systematic attention into ways to increase the rate of deposit into, and transfer of content across, the OA repository space. This is a report of the work of a small international group, supported by JISC, with remit to des...