Background:
The LIFE project (Lifecycle Information For E-Literature) was carried out during 2004-2006
by a consortium consisting of The British Library and University College London Library
Services . The project was joint venture funded by JISC under the programme area
Institutional Management Support and Collaboration. The project has received favourable
feedback, for instance during a workshop organised at the end of it, and JISC has agreed to
fund a second phase during 2007-2008. The consortium has been strengthened by three
associate partners (SHERPA-LEAP Consortium, SHERPA-DP and the Medical Research
Council). In addition some funds were reserved for the use of an outside economic consultant
for an evaluation of the life-cycle models that emerged as the key results from the first phase.
The LIFE-2 project consists of five work packages, and this report is part of the first of these.
The objective of WP 1 is formulated in the LIFE
2
Project proposal as follows:
Validation of the economic modelling and methodology for the Lifecycle and Generic
Preservation formulae developed in Phase 1 of the LIFE project, with technical and
presentational development of the models.
Cloudlake Consulting Oy has been commissioned by the consortium to carry out this
validation. The report has been written by Bo-Christer Björk. He is professor of Information
Systems Science at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in
Helsinki, Finland. He has been conducting research concerning the scientific publishing
process since 2000 and has published several peer reviewed journal articles as well as
conference papers on the subject. He is often an invited speaker at international workshops in
this area
