November Preservation Tip

This month, the Preservation Committee would like to highlight The Preservation Self-Assessment Program (or PSAP) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is a free online guide for collection managers with detailed instructions for the care, preservation, and risk factors for many mediums and formats- including a wide variety of AV and photographic/image materials.

If you have topics you would like to see highlighted, or suggestions for resources, please send them to Nariné Bournoutian at nbournoutian@law.columbia.edu. Tips from previous months are available here. 

2017 Web Archiving Survey

Calling all web archivists, it’s that time again! The National Digital Stewardship Alliance is sponsoring a survey of organizations in the United States who are actively involved in or planning to archive content from the web. The survey is the fourth in a longitudinal study  to track the evolution of web archiving programs and activity in the United States, focusing on similarities and differences in programmatic approaches, types of content being archived, tools and services being used, access modes being provided, and emerging best practices and challenges. The results of the survey will be reported to NDSA members and summary results will be shared publicly in 2018.

Any United States organization involved in web archiving or in the process of planning a web archive is encouraged to take the survey. The survey will close November 17, 2017.

Results and observations from the three previous surveys (2011, 2013, 2016) are available. Thank you,

The NDSA Web Archiving Survey Working Group

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Welcome to Open Access Week!

This week, October 23-29, 2017, is the 10th International Open Access Week.  This year’s theme is “Open in order to…”  Established by SPARC (a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education) and partners in the student community in 2008, International Open Access Week is an opportunity to take action in making openness the default for research—to raise the visibility of scholarship, accelerate research, and turn breakthroughs into better lives.

How can you advance Open Access to legal scholarship? Check out LawArXiv, an open access legal repository owned and maintained by members of the scholarly legal community.  Uploading articles to LawArXiv is free to the scholarly legal community and all uploaded content is freely accessible to the public.  You can read more about the importance of LawArXiv here.