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A. GENERAL
1. Is your work published in :
Academic/scholarly publications
Non-academic/scholarly publications
Official/government publications
2. In which subject/genre do you write ?
(Please give details)
3. Is any of your work published digitally?
Yes Go to question 4
No – but may in the future Go to question 13
No – no plans to If you selected this option - please click here to go to end of questionnaire
4. If YES, which of the following best describe the content:
Text only [alpha numeric etc.]
Text and images
Multimedia
Other (please give details)
5. Have you ever published your own work digitally?
Yes Go to question 6
No Go to question 7
Open source standards permit copies of software to be distributed enabling anyone to use or adapt it.
Proprietary standards limit the rights allowing the use or distribution of the software.
6. Do you adhere to any specific format or encoding standards such as:
Open source standards (e.g., plain text files, HTML, XML )
Proprietary standards (e.g. MS Word, Adobe Acrobat, MS Access, MS Excel, Adobe Photoshop)
B. DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS
7. In what type(s) of e-publication is your work published?
e-journals
e-zines
Weblogs
Online databases
Open archives
e-books
Personal websites
8. Is your work published:
Simultaneously in print and digitally. Please give % per year Please select 0-15% 15-25% 25-50% 50-75% 75-100% Don't know
Digitally only. Please give % per year Please select 0-15% 15-25% 25-50% 50-75% 75-100% Don't know
Don't know
9. If your work is published both in print and digitally, please indicate if the content of the digital version differs;
Not at all from the print version
A little from the print version
Considerably from the print version
Please give details here if you wish
10. For how long has your work been published in digital format?
Less than 1 year
1 - 3 years
4 - 6 years
More than 6 years
11. What proportion of your digital work is still accessible?
Less than 5%
5% - 25%
26% - 50%
51% - 75%
76% - 100%
C. PRESERVATION (both published and self published work)
Digital preservation: Storage, maintenance and access to digital objects/materials beyond the limits of media failure or technological change. This may involve one or more digital preservation strategies including technology preservation, technology emulation or digital information migration.
12. How long do you want your work to be available in digital format?
As long as commercially valuable
As long as anyone wants access
As long as possible
13. Is a publisher's policy on preservation an important criterion for you when choosing a publisher?
Yes
No
N/A
Please make further comments here if you wish
14. If you self publish, do you:
Delete earlier versions of your work and save only most recent version
Preserve all versions of your work
Preserve certain versions only
15. Do you notify users if you change URLs, internal or external links or the structure of your digital material?
Yes Go to Q16
No Go to Q18
N/A Go to Q18
16. If YES, how often?
Every 12 months or less
Between 1-5 years
Every 5 years or more
17. How do you notify users of these changes ?
Voluntary legal deposit scheme for digital publications: Under current legislation, printed material published and distributed in the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland must be deposited in the six legal libraries and archives. There is currently no legislation with regard to the legal deposit of digital materials, however a code of practice exists in the United Kingdom for the voluntary deposit of digital publications.
18. Who backs up or preserves your digital work?
Yourself
Employer
E-print archive
Library
Legal deposit library
Other voluntary deposit scheme
Publisher
D. COPYRIGHT & MORAL RIGHTS
Copyright: is the exclusive right to reproduce a work, and also to prevent third parties from copying the work, without prior permission.
Moral right: is the right of an individual author of a work to be acknowledged as the author or creator. It is the right not to have his or her work subjected to derogatory treatment and the right to refuse to be associated with something he or she did not create.
19. Have you ever have to ask permission of a third party to have their material included in your work?
Yes Go to question 20
No Go to question 21 20. If YES, what permissions do you usually request?
Permission to reproduce material for inclusion in one particular edition of a publication
Permission to reproduce material for inclusion in several editions of a publication
Permission to reproduce material in perpetuity
Permission to reproduce material in the context of the preservation of overall publication
Assign: The rights are sold or given away for good.
Licence: The licensee is granted the right to do certain restricted acts over a specified period of time.
Exclusive licence: the licence is granted to just one person/organisation.
Non-exclusive licence: the licence might be granted to several people/organisations.
21. What preservation rights do you assign or licence when you assign or licence rights to your own work?
I don't assign or licence any rights at all
Non-exclusive licence including a clause which allows copying for preservation
Non-exclusive licence without a clause which allows copying for preservation
Exclusive licence including a clause which allows copying for preservation
Exclusive licence without a clause which allows copying for preservation
Assign some rights including right to copy for preservation
Assign some rights not including right to copy for preservation
Assign rights for copying for preservation only
Assign all rights
22. If you have not hitherto licensed/assigned the right to copy for preservation purposes, would you be willing to do so in the future?
23. How important to you is it that your preserved works remain identical to the original digital versions?
Very important
Important
Not important
Not sure/don't know
24. What aspects are most important to you?
Please rate each of the following, where 5 is most important and 1 is least important.
Please select 1 2 3 4 5 Look and feel
Please select 1 2 3 4 5 Functionality
Please select 1 2 3 4 5 Content
E. SOLUTIONS TO COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING ISSUES IN DIGITAL PRESERVATION 25. Who do you think should be responsible for preserving digital materials?
Authors
Publishers
Libraries (general)
Legal deposit libraries only
Web harvesting: where web pages are selected, indexed, and are made available to end-users.
26. If you self publish, how would you prefer to submit your publications for preservation?
On a physical storage medium
Electronic transfer (e.g. email attachment, FTP)
Allow publications to be harvested from the Web
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.
27. Do you/would you permit libraries to copy your digital material for preservation purposes?
Yes - backup copies
Yes - refresh
Yes - migration
28. Do you think libraries should be given the legal right (e.g. under copyright legislation) to copy digital work for preservation purposes?
Give reasons here if you wish
Digital rights metadata: is information expressing the rights, conditions and fees for using digital works.
29. Do you generate rights metadata for your digital materials?
Not at present, but am willing to
This is the publisher's / someone else's responsibility
Finally, you are invited to make any other additional comments here.
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If you would be willing to be interviewed to discuss these issues further,
please contact: Catherine Ayre,
Department of Information Science,
Loughborough University, LE11 3TU.
Tel. 01509 222178
Email C.I.Ayre@lboro.ac.uk
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