UK LOCKSS Alliance Members' Meeting 10 th May 2011

1. UK LOCKSS Alliance Members'Meeting10th May 2011 Institutional Perspectives: The London School of Economics Bill Barker and Lisa Cardy

2. Institutional Perspectives: The LSE • Summary of session • Profile of the LSE and its ejournal resources and staff • the LSE and LOCKSS: past and present • What we’ve preserved so far • What’s still to be done • What we’ve learnt about the UI

3. Institutional Perspectives: The LSE • Profile • We’re a specialist institution • 40,000 ejournals • A mix of major and small/medium publishers • 2.5 million FT downloads in 2009-10 • Tracked in SerialsSolutions • One Assistant Librarian managing the ejournals, limited library assistant resources • Subscribe to LOCKSS and Portico

4. Institutional Perspectives: The LSE • Past • Associate member of the pilot, then subscriber to the service • Intermittent input from us until recently • IT set backs • Present • E-first policy as the driver • IT support and delegating AU ingest and selection to library assistants • Ejournal preservation commitment

5. Institutional Perspectives: The LSE • What we’ve achieved so far • VFM: LOCKSS fee is a fraction of total cost of our current preserved content • Preserved so far in our LOCKSS box • 75% of our Emerald tracked titles (£18k) • 48% of our Sage tracked titles (£90k) • 80% of our OUP tracked titles (£25k) • 90% of our Springer tracked titles (£60k) • Supporting and driving the LSE Library’s e-first policy

6. Institutional Perspectives: The LSE • To do • Integrate our LOCKSS box with our link resolver • Automate serving content and simulate a trigger event • Make qualitative and detailed quantitative statements about the extent of our LOCKSS content (PEPRS) • Preserve more than ejournals