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A. PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES
1. What are the main subject areas you publish in? STM Professional Trade Education Other (please give details)
2. Do you publish material in digital formats? Yes Go to question 4 No Go to question 3
3. If NO, are you planning to publish in digital formats within the next 12 months? Yes Go to question 5 No Go to question 28 Don't know Go to question 28 Please make further comments here if you wish
4. How long have you been publishing digitally? Less than 12 months 1-3 years 4-6 years More than 6 years
5. How do/will you distribute your digital products? Offline, e.g. on CD ROM Online (direct) Online (intermediary/aggregator) Other (please give details)
6. What types of materials do/will you publish digitally? Serials Monographs Popular magazines Textbooks Other (please give details)
7. What format or encoding standards do/will you use ? Open source standards (e.g., plain text files, HTML, XML)
Proprietary standards (MS Word, MS Access, Adobe Acrobat)
Both open and proprietary standards
Other (please give details)
B. DIGITAL PRESERVATION
Digital preservation: Storage, maintenance and access to digital materials over the long-term This may involve one or more digital preservation strategy including technology preservation, technology emulation or digital information migration.
8. What percentage of the preserved digital copies also have print equivalents? Less than 5% 6% - 25% 26% - 50% 51% - 75% 76% - 100%
Don't know
9. Which of the following do you carry out? Short-term archiving of digital publications Long-term preservation of digital publications Neither Don't know
10. Do you have a formal long-term digital preservation policy or strategy? Yes Go to question 12 No Go to question 11
11. If NO, is your organisation planning to develop a preservation policy in the next 12 months? Yes Go to question 12 No Go to question 16 Don't know Go to question 16 Other (please give details)
12. How long do you/will you preserve material for? As long as it is commercially valuable As long as possible Other (please give details)
Refresh: to copy digital information from one long-term storage medium to another.
Technology Preservation: digital data is stored as a bit stream on a stable digital medium (and refreshed to new media as required) and associated with that object are preserved copies of the original application software, the operating system that this would normally run under and the relevant hardware platform.
Emulation: digital materials are stored in their original format as a bit stream and software and hardware emulators are employed to mimic the behaviour of obsolete hardware platforms and emulate the relevant operating system to allow for access.
Migration: a set of organised tasks designed to achieve the periodic transfer of digital materials from one hardware/software configuration to another, or from one generation of computer technology to a subsequent generation.
13. Do you use any of the following preservation methods? Refreshing Technology preservation Migration Emulation Other (please give details)
If you are willing to let us see your preservation strategy or policy statement, please attach it to this questionnaire.
If you ticked any boxes in question 13 ,
please go to question 14, otherwise go to question 15.
14. How frequently do carry out this/these activity/ies? Every 12 months or less Between 1-5 years Every 5 years or more
15. Can you still access your earliest digital material? Yes No
C. RIGHTS AND LICENSING ISSUES
16. Do your authors/content creators assign: All rights Publication only rights Publication and preservation rights Other (please give details)
17. If you license content from a third party for inclusion in your material, please indicate which of the following you acquire: Software Text Images Multimedia Don't know Other (please give details)
18. Do you licence access to your digital material? Yes No Don't know
19. If you licence access to your digital material, do you use a model licence agreement when licensing your publications? JISC Model Licence (based on the NESLI licence and the PA/JISC model) Liblicense standard agreement Don't know Other model licence e.g. John Cox Associates (please give details)
20. If you licence access to your digital material, do you provide access to "back files"? Yes - during subscription period, to all material Go to question 22 Yes - during subscription period, to material published during the subscription period Go to question 22 Paid access only once subscription ends Go to question 22 No access once subscription ends Go to question 21 No access to back files Go to question 21 Other (please give details)
21. If No, do you intend to provide access to "back files" within the next 12 months? Yes Go to question 22 No Give reasons if you wish,then Go to question 28
Don't know Go to question 28
22. How do you / are you planning to, achieve this provision of access? Will take responsibility for preservation Will use a third party for preservation Will provide physical "copy" of material to customer Don't know
23. How do you plan to provide access should you merge with another company or cease to publish altogether?
24. Are there any digital titles which you do not hold the full rights to make an archival copy? Yes Go to question 25 No Go to question 26
25. If YES, approximately what percentage? %
Digital rights metadata: is a language for expressing the rights, conditions and fees for using digital works
26. Do you/do you plan to generate rights metadata for your digital materials? Yes No Don't know
27. Would you be willing to provide metadata detailing what copying you will allow for digital preservation purposes by preservation institutions? Yes No Give reasons here if you wish
D. SOLUTIONS TO COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING ISSUES IN DIGITAL PRESERVATION
28. Who should be responsible for the short-term archiving of digital publications? Authors Publishers Legal deposit libraries Libraries in general E-print archives Don't know Other (please give details)
29. Who should be responsible for the long-term preservation of digital publications? Authors Publishers Legal deposit libraries Libraries in general E-print archives Don't know Other (please give details)
30. Do you participate in the British Library's voluntary deposit scheme for digital publications in the UK? Yes Go to question 31 No Give reasons if you wish, then Go to question 32
Web harvesting: where web pages are harvested, indexed, and are made available to end-users.
31. If YES, how do you submit your publications? On a physical storage medium Digital transfer (e.g. email attachment, FTP) Allow publications to be harvested from the Web Other (please give details)
32. Do you/ would you permit libraries to copy digital material for preservation purposes? Yes - backup copies Yes - refreshment Yes - migration No Don't know Other (please give details)
33. Do you think libraries should be given the legal right (e.g. under copyright legislation) to copy digital work for preservation purposes? Yes No Give reasons if you wish
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