Digital Preservation of the Scholarly Record has received the 2026 Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact, recognizing collaborative achievements of libraries, publishers, technologists, and preservationists focused on ensuring that the scholarly record remains accessible, reliable, and secure.
Digital preservation supports long-term access to scholarly literature and reduces the risk of information loss caused by technological obsolescence, infrastructure failure, publisher cessation, or other catastrophic events. Continued availability of the scholarly record remains essential for research progress and integrity, particularly as scholarship builds on prior work.
A diverse ecosystem of digital preservation services and technical solutions underpins this work, providing redundancy and resilience for the global research community. These systems help ensure that scholarly publications remain available over time and continue to support scholarly publishing infrastructure.
The Rosenblum Award, established in memory of Bruce Rosenblum and now in its second year, recognizes technologies, infrastructure, standards, or practices that have become indispensable to scholarly publishing. The award is managed collaboratively by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the Association of University Presses (AUPresses), the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM).
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