# A Model for Integrating the Publication and Preservation of Journal Articles

Kevin S. Hawkins, University of North Texas, kevin.s.hawkins@ultraslavonic.info

## Abstract

There are policy, technical, and workflow gaps in library efforts to preserve online journal literature. Since libraries are increasingly involved in journal publishing, HathiTrust, a shared preservation-quality digital repository, is a natural place to archive and provide access to journal literature to ensure its long-term preservation and discoverability. The University of Michigan Library is funding the creation of mPach, an open-source, end-to-end publishing system in which archiving in HathiTrust happens as a byproduct of publication rather than being carried out after the fact. The architecture of mPach, its envisioned workflow, and plans for creating a shared infrastructure for publishing open-access journals are all summarized.

## Audience

The discussion will be at a conceptual level and not delve into technical detail, so it will be of interest to anyone interested in systems to support normalization of born-digital content.

## Background

This year's conference theme explicitly acknowledges the need to work with publishers and other parts of the scholarly publishing ecosystem. In particular, this paper addresses a possible interconnection between publishers and a repository.

## Presentation content

After describing the motivation for creating mPach, the presentation will describe the system's architecture and the user workflow for a journal's editorial staff. It will conclude with thoughts on how mPach will be offered as a shared infrastructure for institutionally supported publishing of open-access journals.

## Conclusion

The most widely used platforms for publishing open-access journals do not ensure adequate preservation of content. By providing easy-to-use tools for a journal's editorial staff, the mPach system will allow a user to normalize content to create a preservation-quality version of a journal. By forcing the publication process to be tightly integrated with archiving, mPach will ensure that the version in the archive will always be the latest version.

## References

http://www.lib.umich.edu/mpach