[Taxacom] [Tdwg-guid] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal

[Kent Holsinger]

Richard Zander wrote:
> The web.archive is a good thing, but libraries need to develop a
> standard policy to store duplicate papers or reprints. Whole web sites
> of informal but important information mounted by scientists may be
> turned off without archiving by their institutions, without an
> institutional policy in place to salvage such at one or more points in
> time, and this should be done by their libraries or archives.  
> 

Librarians are well aware of the need to provide long term archival 
storage for electronic materials. Two options that come immediately to 
mind are

LOCKSS -- http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Home
Portico -- http://www.portico.org/

My understanding is that many libraries are using both.

Kent

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