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A report has been released on the preservation of eprints - Requirements
and Feasibility Study on Preservation of eprints - Consultation Draft.
Work on eprint repositories in the wider academic community so far has tended
to focus on advocacy for the idea and the setting up and population of repositories.
However, if these repositories are going to fulfil a role as a point of
record of material, and are to be regarded as a stable resource for the
future, then there are many preservation issues which need to be addressed.
As part of this work, which SHERPA will be addressing in detail over the
course of the project, a report has been written on these preservation issues
by Sheila Anderson and Hamish James, Arts and Humanities Research Board;
Stephen Pinfield, SHERPA Project Director, Nottingham University and Raivo
Ruusalepp, Estonian Business Archives.
The report provides draft recommendations for further research which will inform the work of SHERPA amongst others, together with recommendations for the development of services and tools to support long-term eprint preservation. This report is available from the JISC site.
This has currently been released by JISC as a draft report for consultation. Comments are requested by 30th June 2003 and should be sent to:
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Hamish James, |
email: hamish.james@ahds.ac.uk |