March 10, 2000

Stanford Project Will Test an Approach for Preserving Digital Journals

By SCOTT CARLSON

To assuage fears about the permanence of articles published in electronic journals, Stanford University researchers will test a computerized variation on an age-old archiving strategy: Make lots of copies, and keep them in different locations.

HighWire Press, a Stanford unit that features the full text of more than 170 scholarly journals online (http://highwire.stanford.edu), announced last month that it will test the approach this spring, in a project called