12. Archiving and Preservation
The Archiving and Preservation work package has worked to understand and provide practical guidance around the archiving and preservation of ebooks. Specifically, we have looked at the requirements for effective archiving of open access digital publications by small publishers, e-theses by university repositories, and the workflows for open access books to enter National Library archives.
The team has created:
- new Criteria for Open Archiving - reflecting the specific needs and opportunities of open access publications
- advice and guidlelines for small publishers in creating effective and practical open archiving strategies and solutions for their own publications
- a report and training resources for the archiving of e-Theses, and
- a study of the workflows and challenges for National Libraries in including open access e-books into their archiving systems.
Copim Open Archiving Criteria
Copim Open Archiving Criteria for Open Access Publications Eight criteria are identified for the ...
eBook Archiving: A Toolkit for Small Publishers
Introduction
This toolkit is intended to provide an overview and guidance for the archiving and preservation o...
What is a ‘simple’ ebook?
Defining an ebook is not easy - and indeed an important part of the COPIM and OBF projects has be...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: Why archive?
The first question for a publisher (or author) to address in developing an archiving strategy is:...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: What content to archive?
It seems unlikely that it is either necessary or feasible to archive every aspect of a publicatio...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: What formats to archive?
Archiving something is clearly better than not archiving at all, so a starting point is to archiv...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: What metadata to archive?
Metadata is critical for the discovery and effective dissemination of books. Just putting somethi...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: Archiving outbound links?
As part of the OBF project the Garth Stewart at the Digital Preservation Coalition undertook a re...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: Where to Archive content?
As part of the work undertaken within the OBF project we have identified many alternative archivi...
A very simple open archiving strategy for a small publisher
Create an information pack for authors - help them to identify the material most critical for a...
e-Thesis Archiving: A Report and Training Resources
National Libraries: Digital Preservation Workflows for Open Access Books
Archiving and Preservation Outputs from the COPIM/OBF projects
The Archiving and Preservation work packages with the COPIM and Open Book Futures project have...
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