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ISSNDigital preservationOpen access journals must be preserved forever
2021/12/17

Open access journals must be preserved forever

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PKP is sharing an important update on Project JASPER, in partnership with DOAJ, Internet Archive, CLOCKSS and Keepers Registry. Project JASPER (JournAlS are Preserved forevER) is an initiative to preserve open access journals. It was launched on World Preservation Day 2020 and is in response to research that shows that online journals—both open and closed access journals—can just disappear from the internet. This happens because of a lack of awareness amongst smaller publishers around the need for long-term digital preservation and/or the resources to enroll a journal in a long-term digital preservation scheme.