Consortial Ebook Archiving Environmental Scan |
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| Authors: | George Machovec |
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| Institution: | Executive Director, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Denver, CO, USA |
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| Abstract: | Academic libraries and consortia are spending the vast majority of their material budgets on digital content, including ebooks. A review of ebook preservation activities for the North American library consortia is provided along with a look at the major preservation services such as Portico, CLOCKSS and HathiTrust. Publishers and ebook aggregators are also examined to provide a broad environmental scan of the current ebook preservation activities and risks. |
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| Keywords: | library consortia ebooks preservation services at-risk materials electronic books |
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