Rule of Three: Digital Preservation for Open Journals at the University of Florida – CLOCKSS

“This is relatively easy to bring up when we’re negotiating licenses for content. It’s a bit harder with open access content because, while we do have agreements with a number of open access publishers that include preservation clauses, there’s a growing amount of open access content where the library doesn’t have direct involvement. Agreement language is therefore incredibly important, and a recent review of license language about digital preservation sadly revealed that the language is often vague about how much of the content is being preserved, for what time, and in what manner that content would be accessed (or what types of uses would be permissible) if circumstances change and the preservation clauses get activated. Often, the language mixes the idea of post-cancellation access (where, because of a license, we have obtained rights over time to access historical content) with long-term digital preservation and access. It’s hard to verify that content is being preserved in the places and manner in which we expect it to be, and even harder to ensure that it is ready for access in the event of the catastrophe that we hope never comes.

As a result, the Smathers Libraries participate in a number of efforts to develop model license language that supports  the work of libraries in negotiating  licenses with publishers, such as the collaborative LIBLICENSE project. In developing this language, we noticed the importance of redundancy to ensure preservation. We’ve all seen situations where having one backup of digital information is simply not enough. So the recommendation that has come forward is that content should be deposited in three mutually trusted digital archives (e.g., a national library, CLOCKSS, or Portico). We also have to be sure that those archiving services are themselves sustainable and reliable sources, so that the investment and effort that’s made to archive content will be effective in the long-term.”

Enter an Archive of 7,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online | Open Culture

“And we can do so most thoroughly by surveying the thousands of mid- to late 19th century titles at the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. Their digitized collection currently holds over 7,000 books free to read online from cover to cover, allowing you to get a sense of what adults in Britain and the U.S. wanted children to know and believe….”

Enter an Archive of 7,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online | Open Culture

“And we can do so most thoroughly by surveying the thousands of mid- to late 19th century titles at the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. Their digitized collection currently holds over 7,000 books free to read online from cover to cover, allowing you to get a sense of what adults in Britain and the U.S. wanted children to know and believe….”

Author Rights Policy » Digital Partnerships & Strategies » UF Libraries » University of Florida

“The Faculty of the University of Florida is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research as widely as possible. By this policy, and with the assistance of the University, Faculty can more easily and collectively reserve rights that might otherwise be signed away, often unnecessarily, in agreements with publishers….

Each Faculty member grants to the University of Florida nonexclusive permission to make available scholarly articles authored by the Faculty member and to exercise the copyright in those articles. In legal terms, the permission granted by each Faculty member is a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each scholarly article, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same, provided that the articles are not sold. Upon publication of a scholarly article authored by the Faculty member, the University of Florida automatically grants to the Faculty member the right to disseminate the accepted manuscript version of the article in any nonprofit repository at any time. This policy does not transfer copyright ownership, which remains with Faculty authors under existing University of Florida policy….”

UF Libraries awarded additional funding to digitize and provide access to historic newspapers » Communications » UF Libraries » University of Florida

“The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida received a grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to expand newspaper digitization efforts and continue participating in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This is the fifth NDNP award the Libraries have received since 2013, bringing the combined project total to nearly $1.5 million.

The recent NEH award will fund the Ethnic Florida & US Caribbean Region Digital Newspaper Project, which will run until August 2023, building on work from previous project phases. During the eight-year period from 2013 to 2021, more than 400,000 pages of historical newspapers published in Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands were digitized and made publicly available online….”

UF Author Rights Policy » Digital Partnerships & Strategies » UF Libraries » University of Florida

“What it is

A policy protecting faculty rights to share our scholarly research, specifically academic journal articles….

The policy lets you share your work widely by granting a nonexclusive license to the University. It is not a transfer of copyright, and you can opt out for any reason, no questions asked….”

UF Author Rights Policy » Digital Partnerships & Strategies » UF Libraries » University of Florida

“What it is

A policy protecting faculty rights to share our scholarly research, specifically academic journal articles….

The policy lets you share your work widely by granting a nonexclusive license to the University. It is not a transfer of copyright, and you can opt out for any reason, no questions asked….”