Preservation Assessment of MIT ejournal holdings Digital Preservation Interest GroupALA Midwinter Meeting, January 2012

Ann Marie Willer, Preservation Librarian, MIT Libraries

Nick Szydlowski, IMLS Preservation Administration Fellow, New York Public Library (formerly Preservation Assistant, MIT Libraries)

Institutional Context• 45,765 electronic journal titles are available to MIT users• Many print subscriptions have been cancelled• Journals are central to the MIT Libraries’ content offerings• Ejournal content is leased, not owned

Scope of the Project• Compare MIT’s ejournal holdings with the holdings of four

major repositories:• CLOCKSS• Hathi Trust• JSTOR• Portico

Methodology• For a list of MIT’s ejournal holdings, we used an SFX

export of all available holdings• For repository holdings, we used the most recent title

listings, available from each repository’s website• All data was gathered the week of 2/20/2011• Title lists were compared in a Filemaker database by

• ISSN• eISSN• LCCN

• Data was exported to Excel for analysis

OutcomesFewer than 22% of titles had a match in one of the repositories

OutcomesHowever, 72% of the titles that MIT leases by title, as opposed to through an aggregator, had a match in a repository:

Outcomes• The project opened a discussion about which ejournal

titles MIT has a long term commitment to.• This graph shows the number of titles in each category:

The Big 3 in PorticoWe focused on Elsevier, Wiley, and Springer, and their level of participation in Portico:

Outcomes• Reports and tools that staff in other library departments can use when negotiating with publishers

• Data was included in an RFI on open access to research articles drafted by the MIT Libraries for submission through the Provost’s office to the Obama administration (Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications Resulting From Federally Funded Research, http://federalregister.gov/a/2011-32943 )

Keepers Registry• A JISC project, now in beta, that provides a registry of

ejournals in repositories• Currently allows single ISSN search• Comparison with local holdings (from a list of ISSNs) is a

planned feature• http://thekeepers.org/thekeepers/keepers.asp

Ann Marie Willer, willer@mit.eduNick Szydlowski, nicholasszydlowski@nypl.org