Join in for discussion of digitization, preservation and access for local historical newspapers with the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s Local History & Genealogy team. The presenters will discuss the acquisition, impact, promotion and use of the Columbus Dispatch digital archive with NewsBank; efforts to digitize small and minority-owned newspapers, and acquisition and processing of the Columbus Dispatch photo archive. The perspective is that of an urban public library, although others in academic and special libraries will also find this content relevant.

Fair use is essential to the functioning of libraries, and underlies many of the ordinary library practices. As the Internet Archive celebrated Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week (26 February-1st March, 2024), this blog post describes a few of the ways the fair use doctrine has helped the Internet Archive build their library. The Fair Use Fundamentals infographic explains what fair use is, why it is important, who uses fair use, and provides some examples of fair use.

An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge.

More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggests. The findings, published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication on 24 January 2024, indicate that systems to preserve papers online have failed to keep pace with the growth of research output. Eve’s study suggests some measures that could improve digital preservation.

Se amplía la colección de periódicos digitalizados con una serie de títulos de vida breve que ilustran, desde 1811, las sucesivas etapas de la historia política de España. Con la incorporación de estas publicaciones procedentes del actual proyecto de digitalización de prensa histórica, además de otros títulos de prensa moderna digitalizados con fines de conservación, la Hemeroteca Digital supera ya los 3.400 títulos y los 96 millones de páginas, de los cuales 2.660 títulos, con 7.806.690 páginas, corresponden al fondo histórico. Ya están actualizados y disponibles en la Hemeroteca Digital de la BNE 101 nuevos títulos de prensa histórica.

Preservation organisations have reacted with alarm to a recent analysis that suggests around a quarter of academic publications are not being preserved for the future.

Martin Paul Eve of CrossRef assessed around 7.5 million ebooks and articles for which the organisation provides a fixed identifier, or Digital Object Identifier (DOI). For around two million articles in his study, he could find no evidence that the articles were being preserved. Librarians have been urged to play an important role in encouraging and requiring proper preservation. A toolkit to support librarians, including model license language, is available here: https://liblicense.crl.edu/resources/digital-preservation/. Martin Paul Eve also cited the Keepers Registry, a service hosted and managed by ISSN International Centre.

The final collection of project briefing videos from the CNI Fall 2023 Membership Meeting are now openly available on the CNI website, YouTube, and Vimeo channels. All meeting materials, including selected presentation slides, project briefing videos, the lightning round video, and opening and closing plenary videos are now available.

OECD is working with both CLOCKSS and the Global LOCKSS Network to ensure the long-term preservation of books, journals, datasets and working papers in the OECD iLibrary. OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers, podcasts and statistics and is the knowledge base of OECD’s analysis and data.  2,500 subscribing institutions worldwide put OECD publications at the finger-tips of over 7 million users in more than 100 countries. This content will now also remain accessible for future users.

JASPER is a cross-industry collaboration with one main goal: to help open access journals be preserved long-term. The JASPER partners—CLOCKSS, DOAJ, Internet Archive, The Keepers Registry, and Public Knowledge Project (PKP)—collaborated to build on existing trusted infrastructure and services. Since its launch two years ago, JASPER has solicited applications from around 100 journal editors, which led to just over 40 applications being submitted. Of the 32 journals selected, 29 chose to be preserved via CLOCKSS and Internet Archive, and three chose to have their OJS-based publications preserved in the PKP-PN. Fourteen of the 26 journals that chose CLOCKSS and Internet Archive are actively sending full-text content via a DOAJ-Internet Archive-CLOCKSS pipeline.

For nearly 20 years, Ithaka S+R has partnered with libraries to navigate change, measure impact, and better serve their users. Ithaka S+R is announcing a new project with the Library of Congress that aims to assess how researchers are engaging with the library’s services and collections at the Capitol Hill campus, as well as to expand its reach to new and diverse patrons. Through mixed-methods research, Ithaka S+R will collect user experience data to help the library expand and enhance the discoverability, use, and scope of its services.