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Storage Made Simple: Preserving Digital Objects With Bepress Archive And Amazon S3, Lisa A. Palmer
Storage Made Simple: Preserving Digital Objects With Bepress Archive And Amazon S3, Lisa A. Palmer
Lisa A. Palmer
One of the “purposeful pathways” in the UMass Medical School Lamar Soutter Library’s 2016-2020 strategic plan is to “responsibly preserve institutional investments in purchased and unique content” [1]. Upon completion of the strategic plan, the library began to investigate digital preservation services for its institutional repository on the Digital Commons platform, eScholarship@UMMS. Although content on bepress platforms is protected by a robust infrastructure that includes multiple backups and cloud storage with Amazon Glacier, the library was interested in an additional level of preservation and control, at a minimal cost. After researching various options over many months, in 2016 the library …