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Victoria Reich, Director and co-founder of the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Program
David Bretthauer, Network Services Librarian at University of Connecticut Libraries
Donna Berryman, Outreach Coordinator for the New England Region (NER) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)
Michael Spinella, Executive Director, JSTOR
Eileen Fenton, Porticos Executive Director, JSTOR

8:30 am - 9:00 am	Registration and Coffee
9:00 am - 9:15 am	Welcome and Introductions
9:15 am - 10:00 am	LOCKSS ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe"), Victoria Reich. LOCKSS is open source software that provides librarians with an easy and inexpensive way to collect, store, preserve, and provide access to their own, local copy of authorized content they purchase. Running on standard desktop hardware and requiring almost no technical administration, LOCKSS converts a personal computer into a digital preservation appliance, creating low-cost, persistent, accessible copies of e-journal content as it is published. Since pages in these appliances are never flushed, the local community's access to that content is safeguarded. Accuracy and completeness of LOCKSS appliances is assured through a robust and secure, peer-to-peer polling and reputation system.
10:00 am - 10:35 am	Building the EJournal Safety Net: UConn's LOCKSS Experience, David Bretthauer. As UConn Libraries has migrated to electronic-only journals where practical, preservation has become paramount. This presentation will describe both technical and collection development perspectives of firsthand experience implementing and maintaining a LOCKSS cache, issues for potential implementers to be aware of, and UConn's future with LOCKSS.
10:35 am-10:50 am	Questions & Answers
10:50 am - 11:10 am	Break
11:10 am - 11:45 am	PubMed Central: NLM and NIH looking to the future, Donna Berryman. In an effort to create a complete digital archive of the journals that are in PubMed Central (PMC), NLM is scanning the back issues of PMC journals that are not already available in electronic form. The complete contents of the scanned issues will be available free in PMC.
11:45 am - 12:30 pm	JSTOR and New Trends in Electronic Journal Archiving, Michael Spinella and Eileen Fenton. Preservation continues to be an important focus for the scholarly community, and maintaining a long-term archive that preserves both print and digital formats is increasingly vital for academic research. This session will describe the new strategies JSTOR and Ithaka's Electronic-Archiving Initiative are using to implement and improve long-term archiving solutions.
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm	Questions, answers, and closing remarks

We are grateful to EBSCO Subscription Services for providing coffee and danish for this event.

ACRL/NEC Serials Librarians Interest Group/Information Technology Interest Group 2005 Joint Program

"Here Today; Here Tomorrow?: Journal Archiving in the Electronic Environment"