NASIG Autumn 2024

LOCKSS emerged over 20 years ago as a response to grand challenges in the field of scholarly communication, serials librarianship, and digital preservation. As we navigate what has been called “the second digital transformation” of scholarly publishing, the shared interests of researchers, publishers, and librarians continue to inform the preservation mission of the LOCKSS Program and various LOCKSS networks focused on scholarly communication. This session will pair a historical overview of the Global LOCKSS Network with forward-looking updates on the re-architected, open-source LOCKSS 2.0 preservation platform and the LOCKSS Program’s exploration of new preprint preservation challenges.

New vendors regularly enter the market, and libraries need their consortia to help vet these new companies and products and negotiate library-friendly licensing and pricing. But how do library consortia identify vendors with which to partner? How do consortia vet these vendors and make decisions? What considerations come into play? In this session, two consortium strategists will present and discuss a new evaluative framework developed at Lyrasis to vet and select new vendor partners transparently, consistently, and strategically. The speakers will also share anonymized case studies of vendors evaluated in 2024.