Cooperative preservation management and the digitisation of journal collections in French higher education libraries

What is it about?

Since 2017, the French Higher Education Ministry has been funding a cooperative network called CollEx-Persée between research institutions holding extensive library collections. The purpose is to offer enhanced services to the researchers. The shared preservation of academic journals is one of the programme selected by CollEx-Persée. It has been initiated earlier in the 2020s with the purpose to change attitude to preservation and to carry out preservation as a cooperative activity. CollEx-Persée has decided to extend it to more associated libraries and with increasing financial backing. Since 2020, a joint digitisation project aims to make available on the persee.fr portal the journals concerned by shared conservation.

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