Projects
The Keepers service: Archiving E-journals in a Registry Service
The Keepers Registry is an output of the JISC funded project, Piloting an E-journals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS), and replaces what was previously available as the PEPRS Beta service.
EDINA, a national data centre based at the University of Edinburgh, has developed the service along with the participating archiving agencies in the project, the ISSN International Centre in Paris. The ISSN International Centre has made available for the purpose of this project an appropriate extract from the ISSN Register, which contains 1.6 millions bibliographic records .
The “Keepers” are the participating archiving agencies which are acting as stewards of digital content. Each of these agencies runs a programme for the archiving of e-journals and is making metadata on the journals they manage available to the Keepers Registry. The data supplied by the agencies is linked to the authoritative bibliographic information obtained from the ISSN Register.
For the time being, the following institutions have contributed metadata to The Keepers :
- British Library
- CLOCKSS Archive
- e-Depot
- Global LOCKSS Network
- HathiTrust
- Portico
Further information about “ The Keepers” is available on the website: http://thekeepers.org/