Re: perpetual electronic access rights for a society's journal hosted by a commercial publisher

["Bonnie Zavon" <bzavon@stanford.edu>]

Dear Diana,

While HighWire Press does not set the long term access policies 
for the publications we host, we do take our role as online 
custodian seriously. We encourage publishers to engage in 
third-party archiving solutions. As an example, most 
HighWire-affiliated publishers participate in the LOCKSS Program 
for e-content preservation [http://www.lockss.org]. For more 
information about HighWire's policies in this regard, please see: 
http://highwire.stanford.edu/institutions/archiving.dtl

One other note -- many publishers ensure wide spread access by 
setting free content policies which benefits the larger research 
community. Specific policies vary by publisher, but about 250 
sites offer free back issues and about 45 sites are completely 
free online. You can see the listing here: 
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

Hope this helps,

Bonnie Zavon
Public Relations
HighWire Press
Stanford University Libraries

----- Original Message -----
From: "Diana Ryan" <diana.ryan@jefferson.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:23 PM
Subject: perpetual electronic access rights for a society's journal hosted
by a commercial publisher

> Hello,
>
> My library is in the process of identifying journal holdings in 
> our print collection which might be replaced by electronic 
> access either by our purchasing electronic backfiles or through 
> a trusted third party like NLM's PubMedCentral or emerging 
> preservation coalitions.  We've developed a number of criteria 
> which must be met before we consider such a replacement and 
> perpetual access is a very important one.
>
> I've come across a title, Academic Radiology, whose future 
> electronic availability is not clear to us.  AR is published by 
> the Association of University Radiologists, however it is 
> hosted on the ScienceDirect platform. Does its availability on 
> the SD platform guarantee perpetual access as if it were one of 
> Elsevier's own journals?  Is this one of the terms in the 
> license agreement between associations and commercial 
> publishers who offer perpetual access?  How do journals hosted 
> by Highwire fit into this picture?
>
> Any insight or information about policy related to this issue 
> is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Diana Ryan, MLS
> Director of Collection Management
> Scott Memorial Library
> Thomas Jefferson University
> Philadelphia, PA 19107