From: RUSBRIDGE Adam <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 15:23:04 +0000

EDINA and the ISSN International Centre are pleased to announce the
publication of Working Together to Ensure the Future of the Digital
Scholarly Record. This statement outlines the actions now required to
tackle the evolving challenges of preserving and ensuring the
long-term accessibility of digital scholarship.

View the statement at:

http://thekeepers.blogs.edina.ac.uk/keepers-extra/ensuringthefuture/

Working Together to Ensure the Future of the Digital Scholarly Record
addresses publishers, research libraries and national libraries, and
sets out a series of recommended activities that they can undertake to
support archiving and preservation initiatives. It represents the
consensus of the preservation specialists, archivists, librarians and
technologists who participated in an invited workshop held as part of
the Keepers Extra project in Paris on the 6th and 7th of June 2016.

The Keepers Extra project (2014-16) is a Jisc investment designed to
support and enhance community activity around the Keepers Registry, a
Jisc service at EDINA.  The Keepers Registry provides the freely
available means to discover which e-journals are being archived by
participating ‘Keeper’ archiving agencies, and thereby helps to
highlight those e-journals for which no arrangement is on record.

The Keepers network, the community of practitioners who contribute to
the registry and are committed to acting as the stewards of digital
content, will work to support and encourage the actions identified in
this statement.

Together, we invite others to support this call to action.  If you or
your organisation wishes to endorse this statement please write to
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+44 (0)131 650 3302 (telephone)
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EDINA
Information Services, University of Edinburgh
Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street
Edinburgh, United Kingdom EH3 9DR

The Keepers Registry is an online service jointly developed and
operated by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh and the ISSN
International Centre. It is financially supported by Jisc  for the
benefit of scholarship internationally, providing a global monitor on
the preservation coverage of e-serials and highlights journal content
that is at risk of loss. The Keepers are the participating archiving
agencies that act as stewards of digital content: there are currently
twelve participating agencies. Each agency runs an initiative for the
archiving of e-journals and is making metadata on the journals in
their initiative available to the Keepers Registry.
http://thekeepers.org/registry.asp?action=about

EDINA, a Jisc centre for digital expertise & online service delivery
at the University of Edinburgh, develops and delivers online services
and digital infrastructure for UK research and education. Contributed
as part of the ‘Jisc Family’, these are both high quality and
cost-effective, drawing upon knowledge and expertise gained through
research, innovation and development.  http://edina.ac.uk/about/

The ISSN International Centre, established through agreement between
UNESCO and the French Government, has the aim of introducing and
operating an automated system for the registration of serials and
maintains the ISSN Register. The ISSN (International Standard Serial
Number) is an eight-digit number that identifies periodical
publications, including electronic serials.  http://www.issn.org/

Jisc are the UK higher education, further education and skills
sectors’ not-for-profit organisation for digital services and
solutions, and are investing in the Keepers Registry as a core service
offering to the Higher Education community.  http://www.jisc.ac.uk

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.