NatHosting

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National hosting of electronic resources , NatHosting for short , describes a project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) to ensure the permanent availability and long-term archiving of digital publications.

Project concept

NatHosting is intended to solve the problem that most digital publications ( e-journals , e-books ...) are not kept in stock directly at libraries and that their constant availability cannot be guaranteed. Access to digital publications takes place by directing library users via OPACs and databases to publishing platforms that provide the publications they are looking for. For various reasons, however, this access can fail due to a so-called trigger event :

  • Publisher cannot host appropriately (insufficient hosting by publishers and unstable access to publisher servers)
  • Catastrophic failure (availability disruptions e.g. due to natural disasters)
  • Transfer (switching from magazines to other publishers)
  • Ceased operational (resolution publishers)
  • Post cancellation (cancellation by the library)

NatHosting relies on a combination of Portico and a private LOCKSS network (PLN) to solve this problem : Portico is primarily used for the offer of larger publishers, a private LOCKSS network for the " long tail " of smaller publishers that are particularly at risk of failure:

  • Portico : The US American service Portico saves copies of electronic resources redundantly in geographically separated locations. In the NatHosting project, a consortium of German libraries is being formed to pay for this service. In the event of a trigger event , users receive access to a copy of the electronic resource stored at Portico.
  • Private LOCKSS network : Participating libraries save copies of electronic resources directly on site on their own hard drives (so-called LOCKSS boxes ). Since many libraries participate in this system, redundant storage and thus fail-safety is also achieved. In the event of a trigger event , users are given access to a copy stored in a LOCKSS box .

Project organization

NatHosting consists of two DFG projects that build on one another:

  1. NatHosting (2014–2016): The concept described above was developed in the project
  2. NatHosting II (2018–2021): In the follow-up project, the concept is to be implemented, the private LOCKSS network set up and the financing and organizational structure created

The following institutions form the project consortium: the Bavarian State Library , the FIZ Karlsruhe , the Johann C. Senckenberg University Library , the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , the Institute for Library and Information Science at the HU Berlin and the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library .

literature

  • Charles Beagrie Limited, and Globale Informationstechnik GmbH. 2010. "Ensuring Perpetual Access: Establishing a Federated Strategy on Perpetual Access and Hosting of Electronic Resources for Germany". https://www.mpg.de/230683/access__hosting_studie_e.pdf , accessed on March 24, 2020 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sylvia Weber, Judith Dähne: Governance as a basis for national hosting of digital publisher publications . In: ABI technology . tape 36 , no. 1 , January 1, 2016, ISSN  2191-4664 , doi : 10.1515 / ABiTec-2016-0003 ( degruyter.com [accessed on March 25, 2020]).
  2. ↑ NatHosting - National hosting electronic resources. In: Bavarian State Library. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Hildegard Schäffler, Karl-Heinz Weber: National hosting of electronic resources: From concept development to implementation . 7th Library Congress Leipzig March 19, 2019 ( kobv.de [accessed March 25, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Hildegard Schäffler, Michael Seadle, Karl-Heinz Weber: Permanent access to digital publications - the DFG project NatHosting . In: o-bib. The open library journal / published by the VDB . tape 2 , December 18, 2015, p. 282 , doi : 10.5282 / O-BIB / 2015H4S279-284 ( o-bib.de [accessed on March 25, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Hildegard Schäffler, Karl-Heinz Weber, Antje Kellersohn: News . In: ABI technology . tape 35 , no. 3 , January 1, 2015, ISSN  2191-4664 , p. 186 , doi : 10.1515 / ABiTec-2015-0031 ( degruyter.com [accessed on March 25, 2020]).