The Keepers Registry is now available on the ISSN portal.
As of December 2019, the ISSN International Centre is the sole operator of the Keepers Registry. This service aggregates preservation metadata to ISSN descriptive metadata to report about the archival status of digital journals. The Keepers Registry is now fully integrated with the ISSN Portal. The latter provides a complete and accurate overview of a serial title’s journey from initial publication to transfer of responsibility and to long-term preservation by archiving agencies. The ISSN Portal can thus be seen as an authoritative database for serial title identification and tracking.
Craig Van Dyck, Executive Director of CLOCKSS, USA, said, “The Keepers Registry performs several critical functions: exposing information about which scholarly journals are preserved, and which volumes, and by which preservation archives; providing a normalised platform for users to find the information, and for archives to integrate with; and a social structure for archives to come together to collaborate. Digital preservation is an evolving field, and collaboration is key to moving forward. The ISSN International Centre makes a lot of sense as a home for the Keepers Registry.”
The Keepers Registry collects preservation metadata supplied on a regular basis by 13 archiving agencies globally. The partner archiving agencies are Archaeology Data Service, British Library, Cariniana Network, CLOCKSS Archive, Global LOCKSS Network, HathiTrust, Library of Congress, National Digital Reservation Program China, National Library of the Netherlands, PKP Preservation Network, Portico, Scholars Portal, and Swiss National Library. National libraries, non-profit organisations, and academic consortia cooperate with the ISSN International Centre to disseminate up-to-date information about archived serial titles and titles at risk.
Keepers Registry is available for free through the ISSN Portal.