2CUL Project Team
Principle Investigators: Oya Rieger (Cornell), Bob Wolven (Columbia)
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Project Advisory Team: Robert Wolven and Oya Rieger (the Co-Principal Investigators), Joyce McDonough (Director of Continuing and Electronic Resources Management at Columbia), Bill Kara (Director, E-Resources, Serials and Post-Cataloging Services, Cornell), Janet Gertz (Director of Preservation at Columbia), Breck Witte (Director of Library Information Technology at Columbia), Kizer Walker (Director of Collection Development, Cornell).
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The project aims to identify priority content from the perspective of the research library community and make significant progress towards increasing the number and extent of issued content of e-journals archived by major preservation programs. Ultimate goal is to develop and test methods to facilitate the continued expansion of e-journal preservation through ongoing assessment of priorities and documented practices to encourage and expand community engagement. |
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There are as many as 100,000 ISSNs assigned to e-serials, of which 28,000 to 48,000 are estimated to be for journal titles currently published in electronic form, depending on what is included (scholarly journals, newsletters and proceedings, government publications, etc.). There are many thousand additional, older titles that have been digitized and made available online for which an ISSN has not yet been assigned. The evidence shows that the extent of e-journal preservation has not kept pace with the growth of electronic publication. Studies comparing the e-journal holdings of major research libraries with the titles currently preserved by major agencies have consistently found that only 20-25%, at most, of the titles currently collected -- let alone published -- have been preserved. In early 2011, the libraries of Cornell and Columbia conducted a study as part of the 2CUL collaboration, and found, for example, that LOCKSS and Portico combine to preserve only a relatively small percentage of these libraries' e-journal holdings, less than 15% of Cornell's e-journal titles as a whole.\[[1]\|#_ftn1\] In the fall of 2012, a study using The Keepers Registry comparing the e-journal holdings of Columbia, Cornell, and Duke with the e-journals preserved by seven different agencies, yielded similar results, showing that only 22-27% of the subset of titles with an assigned ISSN had any volumes archived. Moreover, the extent of volumes archived for any given title varied greatly and was often sparse.\[[2]\|#_ftn2\]
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