From: Mark Jordan <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:45:36 -0700

Apologies for cross posting.

PKP is pleased to announce that the PKP Private LOCKSS Network (PKP
PLN) has moved into full production mode and is now providing free
preservation services for any OJS journal that meets the minimum
criteria and has upgraded to the newly released OJS 2.4.8. Any OJS
journal that has an ISSN and has published at least one article can
choose to agree to the terms of use and be preserved in the PKP PLN.

“The PKP PLN's critically important work to integrate the award
winning LOCKSS software with the PKP framework vastly reduces digital
preservation ingest costs”, said Victoria Reich, Executive Director
LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries. “This model approach
enables many thousands of at-risk journals from long tail publishers
to be effectively, efficiently and affordably preserved for future
generations.”

Bronwen Sprout, PKP PLN Coordinator, added “the PKP PLN represents a
much-needed addition to a wider range of critical services for
scholarly publishing and exemplifies the increasing range of
publishing services now provided by PKP.”

Preservation nodes in Canada, the United States, and Europe are
cooperating to provide the preservation infrastructure for the PKP PLN
(see map).

The PKP PLN is a member of the Keepers Registry, a central directory
of preservation services for electronic journals, maintained by the
University of Edinburgh and the ISSN International Centre. Membership
in the registry enables PKP to share information on archived titles
with the Registry and in turn with initiatives such as Directory of
Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

According to Lars Bjørnshauge, Managing Director of DOAJ, “The PKP PLN
will have positive implications for the OJS-based journals which apply
for inclusion in DOAJ and those that may wish to qualify for the DOAJ
Seal. To demonstrate our support for this initiative, DOAJ will add
the PKP PLN as one of the resources that is explicitly mentioned as a
preservation service in our application form and criteria.”

About LOCKSS

The LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries, built on the
principle that “lots of copies keep stuff safe”, provides open source
tools and support to communities who use LOCKSS to ensure preservation
and continual access to both purchased and locally produced scholarly
content.  Visit the LOCKSS website at http://www.lockss.org/

About DOAJ

The Directory of Open Access Journals is a community-curated list of
open access journals and aims to be the starting point for all
information searches for quality, peer reviewed open access material.
DOAJ was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open
access journals and today contains nearly 9,000 open access journals
covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science
and humanities.

About PKP

The Public Knowledge Project was established in 1998 at the University
of British Columbia. Since that time PKP has expanded and evolved into
an international and virtual operation with two institutional anchors
at Stanford University and Simon Fraser University Library. OJS is
open source software made freely available to journals worldwide for
the purpose of making open access publishing a viable option for more
journals, as open access can increase a journal’s readership as well
as its contribution to the public good on a global scale. In 2016,
almost 10,000 actively publishing journals around the world were using
OJS software.  More information about PKP and its software and
services is available at http://pkp.sfu.ca.

Mark


Mark Jordan
Head of Library Systems
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023 / Skype: mark.jordan50
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