Archiving Challenges of Scholarly Electronic Journals: How Do Publishers Manage Them?

With the growing number of scholarly journals in electronic format, long-term preservation of scholarly electronic journals has become one of the most important issues in digital libraries. Accessibility of scholarly journals on the Internet and electronic publishing in general is causing a shift in the responsibility for archiving journals from libraries to agreements between libraries and publishers. The author focuses on some of the important issues surrounding preservation of digital resources, especially scholarly electronic journals and presents a study on the archiving policies of the following publishers: Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and IEEE.