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 A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>