New York University has received a grant of $527,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project to help ensure the preservation of complex new forms of digital scholarship. In the collaborative project, ‘Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship,’ participating preservation service organisations will test the limits of their capabilities, using their existing tools or drawing on partnerships to preserve a series of increasingly complex works from participating scholarly publishers. The ultimate goal is a clearly defined range of currently preservable technologies, as well as a set of guidelines and best practices for the publishing field.
With NYU as lead, project partners NYU Press, Michigan Publishing, the University of Minnesota Press, Stanford University Press, and Vega Academic Publishing at Wayne State University will transfer content of varying complexity and formats to project partners CLOCKSS and Portico, two major preservation services. These organisations will analyse the content, assess what is the most appropriate preservation approach, and provide solutions that will make these new forms of content preservable. At the same time, NYU will work with the libraries of the University of Michigan and Duke University to explore questions arising from the nexus of scholarly communications organisations, intellectual property agreements, and preservation.
The NYU Division of Libraries comprises five libraries in Manhattan, one in Brooklyn, and one each in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. Its flagship, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Washington Square, houses more than four million volumes and received 2.5 million visits last year. The Libraries’ online catalogue provides access to a world of content, such as millions of book volumes, e-books, serial titles, oral histories, and documents from more than 43,000 linear feet of archives.
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