The Keepers Registry is an important tool that provides a view into the global archiving arrangements of digital publishers. It assists researchers, libraries and archives in knowing who holds what and where, and forms part of an increasingly important digital archiving and preservation eco-system which ensures the long term accessibility of research published in electronic formats.  As part of my work around the Registry, I helped to write and publish ‘Working Together to Ensure the Future of the Digital Scholarly Record’  (2015), which was endorsed by several international library organisations.

Keepers Extra was a Jisc project in the area of continuing access and preservation of e-journals. The initiative aims to establish a sustainable Keepers Network around the Jisc Keepers Registry service. This Keepers Network will initiate community activity by stakeholders who have the common goal of increasing the proportion of e-journal coverage in archiving agencies. To support this community activity, the project developed a toolkit that improves library awareness and understanding about collection coverage, explore how the Keepers model might apply to other types of scholarly content and expose and highlight activity in other countries (by archiving agencies and libraries).

The image featured on the project page is ‘Library’ by Luc Gallopin, made available by Flickr under a CC By 2.0 licence. No changes were made.