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>For Immediate Release: February 23, 2001
>
>Yale Library to Plan Digital Archives with Elsevier Science
>
>New Haven, Conn. -The Yale University Library and Elsevier Science
>announce today a year-long planning process for the creation of a digital
>archive for the 1,100 journals published electronically by Elsevier
>Science.
>
>Assuring the preservation of digital information is one of the highest
>priorities for libraries and publishers, and this project marks a step
>forward for both.  The project expects to realize a model archive within
>two years and looks to a future in which scientists and scholars will be
>assured that today's publications will be available decades from now.
>
>For part of the "life cycle" of scientific information, commercial
>publishing practices ensure the most effective and cost-efficient means of
>maintaining access to current information; for other parts of that cycle,
>digital preservation and access responsibilities must be deliberately
>transferred to an archival agent.  Project planning will focus on the
>critical events that should prompt changes in the management of
>preservation, on what a library needs to act as an archival agent and on
>the agreements needed to enable such changes.
>
>The project will investigate the uses a digital archive supports and the
>extent to which it is possible to differentiate between content-the
>long-term integrity of which must be preserved-and the options for
>rendering and using that content.  Various formats for encoding digital
>content will be studied to determine which are likely to remain relatively
>stable over time and to be good anchors for preservation.  Project
>planners will establish an infrastructure for processing digital objects
>selected for the archive.
>
>The plan for a library-based archive of the digital publications of
>Elsevier Science will include the business arrangements necessary for
>maintaining the archive over time.  A good plan and a successful
>implementation of that plan could result in a digital archive being in
>place by 2003 The Yale Library hopes that in time it might be able to
>offer model archival services to publishers other than Elsevier Science.
>A substantial number of other projects in the United States and abroad
>create an environment of experimentation and professional discourse for
>the collaborative work of the Yale Library and Elsevier Science.
>
>The one-year planning work is supported by a grant from the Andrew W.
>Mellon Foundation. Yale participants include Scott Bennett, University
>librarian; Ann Okerson, associate University librarian; Paul Conway, head
>of the library's Preservation Department; and David Gewirtz, project
>manager in the University's Academic Media and Technology Department.
>Elsevier Science personnel include Karen Hunter, senior vice president;
>Geoffrey Adams, global information technology director; and Emeka
>Akaezuwa, associate director of information technology implementation.
>
>Yale University has one of the world's finest research libraries, with
>over 10 million volumes and extraordinary special collections.
>Well-known for the depth and breadth of its print collections, the library
>has been moving steadily to provide increased access to scholarly
>materials in electronic form.  This interest in electronic media and the
>library's concerns for the long-term preservation of scholarly resources
>come together in the Yale/Elsevier Science project.
>
>In commenting on the generous grant from the Mellon Foundation, Bennett
>noted: "The Library has long been a leader in the area of book
>preservation, creating model programs that have benefited the wider
>library community.  It is our sincere hope that through this joint effort
>with Elsevier Science we will begin to take on a similar role in the
>preservation of digital resources."
>
>Elsevier Science (http://www.elsevier.com) is the world's largest
>scientific, technical and medical information provider, publishing
>journals as well as books and secondary databases.  It is a member of the
>Reed Elsevier plc group (http://www.reed-elsevier.com), a leading
>international publisher and information provider.  Operating in the
>scientific, legal and business-to-business industry sectors, Reed Elsevier
>provides information solutions to professional end users, with increasing
>emphasis on the Internet as a delivery method.
>
>CONTACTS:
>
>Paul Conway, Head of Preservation, Yale Library:  203-432-1714,
>paul.conway@yale.edu
>
>Karen Hunter, Senior Vice-president, Elsevier Science 212-633-3787,
>khunter@elsevier.com
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Deb Carver
Interim University Librarian
University of Oregon Library
541-346-1892
541-346-3485 (fax)