OpenLOCKSS: Frequently Asked Questions
This section of the OpenLOCKSS website will
answer frequently asked questions about the OpenLOCKSS project.
What will OpenLOCKSS be doing between March and July?
The OpenLOCKSS Project will negotiate with a number of UK Open Access
publishers to seek their permission for the inclusion of their titles in
LOCKSS. This project complements earlier work undertaken by Content
Complete Limited (CCL) for the LOCKSS Programme for NESLi2 publishers.
What will getting involved with OpenLOCKSS
cost?
There is no charge for the LOCKSS service, the only commitment is
some time to work with us to decide on the most appropriate units to
manage your content by and to add a publishers manifest page to your
website which grants the LOCKSS software permission to crawl and harvest
your content.
Will access to my journal for my readers be affected if I join
LOCKSS?
No. The LOCKSS software works very slowly and will not affect the
speed of access to your content. How will LOCKSS work?
Each LOCKSS system configured to collect your journal will crawl the
website, collecting a copy of the journal for local archiving. In the
event that your journal was unavailable, the institutions with a local
copy of content would be able to provide content to users of that
institution only. The current method for providing access is by serving
content through a peered institutional proxy cache, such as Squid or
EZproxy, but the use of other techniques, such as OpenURL, are under
investigation.
What are the legal implications of putting my contents into LOCKSS?
There is no formal documentation on legal implications but we will
investigate this further and work to ensure that where possible and
practicable appropriate assurances and written guarantees are given. We
envisage this to be a condition of use specified in an archival
permission license - similar terms are made clear in licenses for
commercial publishing endeavours. This is an area where improvements in
the process can be made by the efforts of OpenLOCKSS. | 
