The Archiving and Digital Preservation Group are developing new technical methods and workflows for effectively archiving complex digital research publications. Working in consultation with the Digital Preservation Coalition and National Libraries, this group is dedicated to ensuring that open access content remains freely accessible in the long term.
Below, you’ll find news of the Group’s activities, as well as reports on their research into the challenges, requirements and practicalities of preserving open access content.
A combined guidebook and report now published, examining current archiving & preservation practice and providing guidance to the small or scholar-led open monograph publisher
A summary of the findings from our Thoth Archiving Network workshop, including an examination of challenges and barriers for institutional repositories wishing to join.
Work Package 7 of the COPIM Project has released their Scoping Report, identifying and examining the key challenges associated with archiving and preserving open access monographs, particularly those published by small and scholar-led presses.
