Documents and Publications

News Roundups

Regular news roundups highlight ongoing system and content development, and keep members informed of the activities of EDINA and other UKLA members.

• April 2012
• February 2012
• January 2012
• December 2011
• November 2011

Briefing Updates

Briefing updates provided an in-depth look at the activities of the UK LOCKSS Alliance as a co-operative organization whose overall aim is to ensure continuing access to scholarly work in ways that are sustainable over the long term. We have replaced briefings with News Roundups, which we have found to be a more effective way of communicating with members.  Older briefings are available below in PDF format.

• August 2011
• February 2011
• June 2010
• June 2009
• November 2008

UK LOCKSS Alliance Community Development Project Plan

In August 2010, EDINA was awarded project funding for UK LOCKSS Alliance Community Development Activities. Copied below is the project plan as submitted to JISC.

• UK LOCKSS Alliance Community Development Activities Project Plan

UK LOCKSS Alliance Strategic Plan

For further details on the UK LOCKSS Alliance, see our strategic plan for 2011. The second half of the page details our priorities for 2010-2013.

External Papers

• Rusbridge, A. and Ross, S. (2008). “Establishing a community-based approach to electronic journal archiving: the UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme”
• Morrow, T., Beagrie, N., Jones, M., and Chruscz, J. (2008). “A Comparative Study of e-Journal Archiving Solutions” (PDF file)
• Dalton, P., and Conyers, A. (2008). “Evaluation of the JISC UK LOCKSS Pilot” (PDF file)
• Hockx-Yu, H. (2006). “Establishing a UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme”
• Rusbridge, A., and Ross, S. (2007). “The UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme: A Perspective from the LOCKSS Technical Support Service”

The UK LOCKSS Alliance follows a successful JISC/RLUK funded two-year UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme that explored issues associated with the practical implementation of LOCKSS in the UK Higher Education institutions.  Documents and resources from the UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme are available on the Digital Curation Centre’s LOCKSS pages.