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A. DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
1. Is your library:
Academic
Public
Special
National
Other (please give details)
2. Does your library have digital resources in its collections?
Yes Go to question 5
No Go to question 3
3. Do you expect to acquire digital material in the next five years?
No Go to question 4
Don’t know
4. What are your main reasons for not acquiring of digital material?
If you answered 'No' to question 2 or 3 please go to question 14
5. What are your main reasons for acquiring digital material ?
6. Approximately how much of the digital material in your library is:
Unique (only exists in digital form) %
Duplicate of another format (e.g. print) %
Don’t know (Please go to question 8)
7. How was this digital material acquired?
Donation %
Purchased outright %
Licensed from a vendor %
Created in-house %
Voluntary deposit %
Harvested from Web %
B. DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICIES
Digital preservation: Storage, maintenance and access to digital objects/materials over the long-term. This may involve one or more digital preservation strategies including technology preservation, technology emulation or digital information migration.
8. Do you assume responsibility for the preservation of any digital material in your collections?
Yes Go to question 9
No, but will in future Go to question 11
No Give reasons if you wish Go to question 14
9. Which digital material have you assumed preservation responsibility for?
Material deposited by publishers
Donated material
Material purchased outright
Licensed material
10. Does your library currently have a formal digital preservation policy?
Yes
No
If you have a formal policy and you would be willing to let us to see it, please email to: m.m.omahony@lboro.ac.uk
11. Will you be developing a digital preservation policy in the next 12 months?
Please make further comments here if you wish
Refresh: to copy digital information from one long-term storage medium to another.
Technology Preservation: digital data are stored at bit streams 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.
12. Do you use any of the following preservation strategies?
Refreshing
Technology preservation
Migration
Emulation
None
13. Is digital preservation carried out:
In house
Externally
N/A
C. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING ISSUES FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION
14. Do you think that current UK copyright and database legislation provides for the digital preservation needs of libraries?
Don’t know/not sure
15. If you have negotiated permission to digitise copyright analogue materials, did you also get permission to copy the resulting digitised material for preservation purposes?
Don’t know/not applicable
16. If you copy born digital resources that you physically own for preservation purposes, do you have to seek permission from the copyright holder(s) to do so?
Yes Go to question 17
No Go to question 18
Don’t know/not applicable Go to question 18
17. Approximately how much time in man-days is spent annually on rights clearance for digital preservation purposes in your library?
18. If you have licensed digital content in your library, which of the following licensing options do you use?
Shrink-wrap licence
Individual licence agreements with publisher/ aggregator
Licence agreements with publisher/ aggregator based on a model licence
Not applicable Go to question 22
19. Is there provision in the licence agreements for access to back files?
Yes - during subscription period, to all material Go to question 20
Yes - during subscription period, to material published during
the subscription period Go to question 20
Paid access only once subscription ends Go to question 20
No access once subscription ends Go to question 22
No access to back files Go to question 22
20. How do publishers ensure this access to back files?
Publisher undertakes to provided remote access
Publisher relies on a third party to provide remote access
Publisher provides copies of material to the library
21. Is this access provided satisfactorily?
Yes Go to question 22
No Please give details
D. SOLUTIONS TO COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING ISSUES IN DIGITAL PRESERVATION
22. Who should be responsible for preserving digital publications?
Authors
Publishers
Legal deposit libraries
Libraries in general
E-print archives
23. Which of the following do you think would help libraries to preserve digital material?
Changes in library privilege exemptions to copyright legislation
Provision of digital preservation rights metadata by publishers
Collective licensing of digital preservation copying
Individual licences negotiated with publishers aggregators
Extension of legal deposit to cover digital material
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contact: Margaret-Mary O’Mahony,
Department of Information Science,
Loughborough University, LE11 3TU.
Tel. 01509 222178
Email m.m.omahony@lboro.ac.uk
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