LOCKSS program preserves medical journal series

Pain Reviews, an open-access electronic journal that ceased publication in 2002, is now securely preserved in the LOCKSS distributed preservation network. Published by Hodder Arnold from 1998 to 2002, the journal has been available for library archiving between October and December 2009 (see http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/arn/pr).

LOCKSS Program staff in the United States and in the United Kingdom worked closely with Publishing Technology and Hodder Arnold to ensure that Pain Reviews would be preserved in a way that benefited all scholars, worldwide. Libraries that preserve Pain Reviews in LOCKSS will have access to this journal in perpetuity, without any further payment for access.

Victoria Reich, Director of LOCKSS, notes, "Pain Reviews is an outstanding example of how libraries are using the distributed digital preservation LOCKSS Program to take custody of and preserve important scholarly materials. That Pain Reviews is assigned a Creative Commons (CC) license is an extra bonus."

Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA and the UK LOCKSS Alliance, adds "Pain Reviews highlights the advantage of the community-driven approach taken by the UK LOCKSS Alliance. The UK LOCKSS Alliance community brought this title to our attention, which led to LOCKSS staff in the UK and US preparing the title and its contents for long-term preservation and ready (open) access."

The LOCKSS Program, in cooperation with over 400 important scholarly publishers, provides secure archiving and post-cancellation access to participating libraries. Publishers who preserve their content with the LOCKSS Program provide libraries, readers and authors with the security of post-cancellation and perpetual access while maintaining a direct relationship with their community.

The UK LOCKSS Alliance is a cooperative movement of UK academic libraries that are committed to identify, negotiate, and build local archives of material that librarians and academic scholars deem significant.

To preserve this title at your institution, and to help shape the selection of further titles, join the UK LOCKSS Alliance now, by going to the website below.