Digital Preservation of Law Reviews: Two Ways

Digital Library Perspectives: Special Preservation Issue, Forthcoming

University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 186

6 Pages Posted: 5 Oct 2016 Last revised: 8 Nov 2016

See all articles by Valeri Craigle

Valeri Craigle

James E. Faust Law Library; University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law

Date Written: October 5, 2016

Abstract

On November 7, 2008, the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship was released to the public. One of its main tenets ‒ that law schools and libraries “stop publishing journals in print format and rely instead on electronic publication coupled with a commitment to keep the electronic versions available in stable, open, digital formats” ‒ was an open call to law libraries to start thinking about digital preservation strategies for their law reviews.

The Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA) responded to the need by developing the Law Review Preservation Program, an initiative which archives law reviews hosted on the Bepress Digital Commons platform in Controlled LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), or CLOCKSS.

For those law libraries without subscriptions to Digital Commons, there is an open-source, freely available alternative solution for ingesting digital law reviews into any preservation platform. This application, called the Submission Information Metadata Packaging, or SIMP tool was developed at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah, initially as a solution for ingesting content into the Ex Libris Rosetta Digital preservation platform, as part of a CONTENTdm digital asset management workflow. Though the development of the SIMP tool was inspired by Marriott’s need to ingest digital files from CONTENTdm to Rosetta, they built it to work with any Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) and Digital preservation platform.

This article will explain these two strategies for digital preservation of law reviews, informing law librarians of the options which might best suit their needs.

Keywords: Digital Libraries; Digital Preservation; Legal Scholarship

Suggested Citation

Craigle, Valeri, Digital Preservation of Law Reviews: Two Ways (October 5, 2016). Digital Library Perspectives: Special Preservation Issue, Forthcoming, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 186, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2847909 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2847909

Valeri Craigle (Contact Author)

James E. Faust Law Library ( email )

383 S. University Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0730
United States

University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law ( email )

383 S. University Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0730
United States

Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?

Paper statistics

Downloads
84
Abstract Views
794
Rank
535,566
PlumX Metrics