I think it's important to note that librarians working with digital journals 
are concerned about long term preservation and access issues and are trying 
to set up systems for long term access.


On September 13, 2005 a group of academic librarians, university 
administrators, and others
participated in a meeting at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation offices in New 
York where they discussed electronic journal preservation.  As a result of 
this important meeting, the
document "Urgent Action Needed to Preserve Scholarly Electronic Journals" 
(http://www.diglib.org/pubs/waters051015.htm) was issued to the scholarly 
communications community at large.  The document has been endorsed by the 
Association of Research
Libraries, ACRL, ALCTS, and the Medical Library Association, among others, 
and calls for action on four key points:
* preservation of electronic journals is a kind of insurance
* qualified preservation archives would provide a minimal set of 
well-defined services
* libraries must invest in a qualified archiving solution
* research and academic libraries and associated academic institutions must 
effectively demand archival deposit by publishers as a condition of 
licensing electronic journals

Evviva Weinraub
OARE Program Support Librarian
Yale University Libraries

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