Using the ISSN Portal to Check the Status of Your Journal Collections Regarding Digital Preservation

The Keepers Registry (Keepers) (https://keepers.issn.org), managed by the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) International Centre since 2019, is the only service monitoring preservation arrangements for digital and digitized serials, including scholarly journals. Keepers Registry aggregates data supplied by sixteen partner archiving agencies—located in Asia, Europe, North America, South America—with its own data. It gives an overview of the preservation status of about 70,000 titles as of November 2022. The ISSN International Centre is currently developing a new service that will allow librarians to upload journal metadata (i.e. ISSNs, titles) via a tabular list and retrieve information about the extent of preservation for these titles. Returned data will contain names of preserving agencies, and for each agency, years covered by preservation compared with years of publication, an assessment of archived content completeness per agency, and related serial publishers. The presentation will ​include​ a demonstration of the service as well as a case study based on University of California, Davis collections, with preliminary title level data revealing only 40 percent of the collection has Keepers. Librarians were invited to give their feedback on the service and reflect upon its functionalities