But taking an indiscriminate, scattershot approach to the preservation problem also disserves the digital preservation agenda itself. As usual, what is needed is to sort out and understand the actual contingencies, and then to ...

The postprint is a supplementary version of the official publication, provided for OA purposes; it is not the version with the primary digital preservation problem. (4) Digital preservation should not be conflated with OA provision: There is a ...

And, as can never be pointed out often enough, the purpose of OA self-archiving is the enhancement of access, usage and impact of the research, not the digital preservation of the publisher's PDF! The postprint is a copy, not ...

Let us stanch the bleeding immediately, as a matter of priority, and then get on with the generic digital preservation agenda. Stevan Harnad. Posted by Stevan Harnad in Self-Archiving Mandates at 10:14 | Comments (0) ...

... peer-review reform, publishing reform, copyright reform, freeing all "knowledge" (rather than just freeing all of refereed research first), solving "the" digital preservation problem, solving "the" online search problem, etc. etc.

Digital preservation need not be entrusted to government. Research institutions will preserve their own (published) article output, self-archived in their own Institutional Repositories (IRs). And for good measure (and backup) ...

SUMMARY: Some university libraries and administrations think OA is all about journal affordability, digital preservation, digital curation (IRs) and interoperability (OAI). Some OA publishers think OA is all about conversion to ...

(6) IRs are just for digital preservation (whereas OA IRs are for OA-provision today, and digital preservation of the canonical version of record is an entirely different matter, unrelated to OA until and unless subscriptions ...

The 'preservation' components are also misplaced, as the mandate is to self-archive the author's draft, not the publisher's version (which is the one with the preservation problem). It would also be good to remove the confusing ...

... access-provision and digital preservation, leaving all that to the global network of Green OA institutional repositories), along with their associated costs, and convert to Gold OA for covering the costs of what remains (largely ...

... and the end of the road for OA advocacy, the rest being about scholars and scientists making use of this newfound bonanza, whilst other processes (digital preservation, journal reform, copyright reform, peer review reform) ...

It is imperative to distinguish (i) the peer-reviewed research access/impact problem from (ii) the digital storage and preservation problem. They are not the same problem, and conflating them makes both harder to understand ...