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Guest Post — Navigating the Drift: Persistence Challenges in the Digital Scientific Record and the Promise of dPIDs

The internet was not designed to provide a permanent digital record of scientific research. This post looks at current approaches to addressing the shortcomings of the existing Internet technology, identify remaining bottlenecks, and suggest how they could be resolved. Upgrades to the backbone of the scientific record could go a long way toward addressing the replication crisis and the increasing challenges for publishers to spot fake research.

Guest Post — Shared Print & Sustainability through the Looking Glass

This is the second in our two-part series highlighting the need for shared print, as a community of membership programs working in parallel to a common goal of long term preservation and access to print resources, to evolve in order to become a more cohesive and sustainable national effort

Guest Post — Shared Print Down the Rabbit Hole

Libraries’ ability to steward print collections in the future is being compromised by how we manage them now. How can we evolve our shared print strategy to align with the core values of libraries, and to increase the value proposition of print collections. Part 1 of 2.

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Alicia Wise of CLOCKSS

In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Alicia Wise of CLOCKSS, the digital archive for academic publishers and research libraries.

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson of Portico

In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson of Portico, the community-supported preservation archive.

The British Library: The Importance of Legal Deposit

“This library has every book ever published.” A visit to the British Library.

Libraries, Archives, Choice and Red Envelopes: The Growth of Streaming, the Decline of Choice, and the Death of the Red Envelope

The role of libraries and archives as streaming grows, choice declines, and the death of the red envelopes arrives.

Shared Infrastructure and the Recent Downtime at the University of Michigan

When the University of Michigan was forced to disconnect from the internet last week, it resulted in disruptions to several key services it provides to the broader research community, such as the University of Michigan Press, HathiTrust, and ICPSR. What can we learn from this experience?

Appeals Court Rules That Library of Congress Can No Longer Require Deposit of Published Works

An appeals court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require deposit of published works in the Library of Congress

Critical Archives

Studying the way we’ve studied the past is mutual work. Archivists and librarians, and scholars using their collections, have each been producing critical archives scholarship that too often remains within disciplinary and professional siloes.

Shared Infrastructure for Scholarly Communication: A Draft Report for Comment

This year, Ithaka S+R is examining the shared infrastructure for scholarly communication and will ultimately make recommendations for its future. This week, we issued a draft of our project report. Please share your comments, suggestions, and other feedback by the end of August.

The Scholarly Kitchen

Archives: Preservation

Guest Post — Navigating the Drift: Persistence Challenges in the Digital Scientific Record and the Promise of dPIDs

Guest Post — Shared Print & Sustainability through the Looking Glass

Guest Post — Shared Print Down the Rabbit Hole

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Alicia Wise of CLOCKSS

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson of Portico

Libraries, Archives, Choice and Red Envelopes: The Growth of Streaming, the Decline of Choice, and the Death of the Red Envelope

Appeals Court Rules That Library of Congress Can No Longer Require Deposit of Published Works

Critical Archives

Shared Infrastructure for Scholarly Communication: A Draft Report for Comment

Trust and the Personal Library

Guest Post — The Outlook for Data Sharing in Light of the Nelson Memo

Deep Storage: An Archive in a Salt Mine

Restoring the Version of Record

SSP Welcomes Newly Elected Board Members for 2024-2025 Term

Celebrating the Dedicated Volunteers That Drive SSP – THANK YOU!