Section outline

    • Students must
      Mark as done

      If you are unsure about the status the journal that you would like to preserve, there are options to check this: Although it is not possible to check against all existing preservation services at once, this section will introduce how to run a check on the Keepers Registry and in the Fatcat Wiki.

      In the Keepers Registry status information for a given ISSN number can be checked. This is an official way that is preferrable when checking only several journals.

      Here is an example for the information provided in the case of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology:

      A screenshot from the site issn.org informing about archiving agencies preserving a journal JASIST and the extent of archive

      Image: Search result for the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology in the Keepers Registry: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2330-1643 

      Another resource that is collecting the data from archiving agencies and visualizing it is Fatcat Wiki, run by Internet Archive.
      Here is an example of the information given about the same journal there:
       
       

      Visualisation of preservation modalities for the journal: dark archive, bright archive, none. Only the data from 3 services.

      Image: Search result for Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology in the Fatcat Wiki: https://fatcat.wiki/container/ytszeoavsvacnciwhmsxbas6tq/coverage

      Only three preservation services are indexed in Fatcat Wiki for this example out of five indexed in Keepers. Notably, the Internet Archive, which hosts Fatcat Wiki, is not indexed there for this particular journal, but only in Keepers.

      If you are interested in checking the information for many journals at once, there are several ways to proceed:
       
      • by downloading the lists from the preservation services (CSV/TSV files) - This is the easiest way without technical know-how, using only official data. However, not all of the services provide such lists. The links to them are listed e.g. in https://the-vault.fly.dev/Data_Validation_and_Sources
      • by using the Fatcat API. This requires some technical know-how and the reliability of the data should be checked.
      • by using the data from Crossref Preservation Database which "returns the preservation status of a Crossref DOI matched against mainstream digital preservation platforms". this also requires a certain technical know-how.
    • Did you find your journal? Choice
      Students must
      Mark as done
      Let's try and follow the instructions above. Are you able to find out about the status of your journal? Is you journal already part of a long-term archiving system?