Archiving in the Networked World: Open Access Journals

Purpose: The purpose is to investigate how extensively LOCKSS/CLOCKSS, Portico, and e-Depot provide long term digital archiving for the journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Methodology: The article users publicly available online data, which are processed in a set of perl programs to measure number of DOAJ articles in the three archiving systems. Findings: The findings show that only 8 % of the DOAJ titles are in LOCKSS/CLOCKSS and only 5 % in Portico. The findings also suggest that it could take 8 years to archive all full text DOAJ articles in e-Depot based on current plans. Implications: The most important implication is that most open access titles listed in DOAJ currently have no effective long term digital archiving