{"id":1141,"date":"2009-06-06T01:09:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T01:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2009-06-06T01:09:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T01:09:22","slug":"tasty-serials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/06\/06\/tasty-serials\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasty serials"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Journal spend, use and research outcomes: a UK perspective on value for money”<\/a> (PDF link), by Ian Rowlands at the UK Serials Group Conference, 31st March 2009. In amongst the inevitable science journals (yawn<\/em>), his group also made a case-study of History ejournals. One interesting factoid…<\/p>\n

“86.5 per cent of titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences are now available online”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Only<\/em> 86.5%?<\/p>\n

From the same conference: “Electronic journals, continuing access and long-term preservation: roles, responsibilities and emerging solutions”<\/a> (Powerpoint link, 2Mb). It seems a useful overview of the problems, and the initiatives (LOCKSS, Portico, etc) currently underway.<\/p>\n

Short-run open access titles in the arts and humanities are especially vulnerable to loss, judging from my experience of finding one too many “404 not found” and domain-squatted pages while building JURN. One solution that springs to mind might be to build into open access journal software an automatic “collect all the articles into a single POD-ready printable 8″ x 10″ PDF and upload it on publication to a print-on-demand book printer” (such as Lulu). National deposit libraries could then access a uniform printed (although probably not archival\/acid-free) copy for their stacks. And so could anyone else who wanted a printed copy. <\/p>\n

Another rather more humourous idea might be to have a Big Red Button integrated into the journal’s software control panel — especially useful for graduate Cultural Studies ejournals perhaps — marked: <\/p>\n

“We can’t be bothered any more, upload everything to archive.org and then delete the website”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, a ‘brute force’ approach would be to buy a fat new hard-drive and then run site-ripper software<\/a> (free tools such as the British Library Web Curator Tool and the independent WinHTTrack spring to mind) on the JURN Directory<\/a>. But there’s a problem — many independent ejournals keep their article files at a radically different URL than that of the home website. A third of the time you’d end up with a nice snapshot of the website, but no articles. Unless you could specifically tell the software to download all unique off-site files\/pages that were being directly linked to by the targetted website (that’s if you’re lucky and the journal doesn’t use scripted “bouncing-bomb” URLs that dynamically bounce into repositories to get the PDF). But then, many journal entry-points are just a page on a larger departmental website — so you could end up hauling in terabytes of unwanted material either way.<\/p>\n

Or for a more managed solution, one could spend \u00a312,000 paying students at \u00a312 an hour to spend an average of 40 minutes per title (across 1,700 titles), to go in and hand-archive all the articles and TOCs into named directories on a hard-drive. Even if management bloated the cost, I’d guess an initial archival<\/a> capture could probably be done for less than \u00a350k? Heck, I’ll do it myself if someone wants to offer me \u00a350k.<\/p>\n

Of course, if librarians had made and promoted just one<\/em> simple little Google-friendly tagging\/flagging standard for online open-access journal articles… then none of this would have been needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Journal spend, use and research outcomes: a UK perspective on value for money” (PDF link), by Ian Rowlands at the …<\/p>\n

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