What is bepress Archive?

While Digital Commons offers an extensive and secure infrastructure to safeguard your content, we know that many institutions are interested in the added guarantee of having a copy of their own archives. We partner with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to provide cost-effective and dependable storage of your files on a highly reliable cloud server. You have full access to all of your files at all times.

Cost

• You need to create your own account through Amazon (see below for details).
• Pricing is located here.

Security

• Only you (and those you expressly authorize, such as Digital Commons) have access to your files on Amazon S3.
• The service supports user authentication, including multi-factor authentication, to control access to data.
• You can use access control mechanisms to selectively grant permissions to users and groups of users.

Reliability

• After a file is sent to S3, Amazon performs a data integrity check to ensure that the file residing on S3 matches the file on the Digital Commons platform exactly.
• Amazon S3 redundantly stores your files on multiple servers across multiple facilities. The service is designed to sustain multiple server failures by quickly detecting and repairing any lost redundancy.
• Amazon S3 performs checksums on data uploaded to the service and repairs any corruption using redundant data.
• Amazon S3 is designed to provide 99.999999999% durability of files.

Accessing Content

• The file structure/hierarchy on Digital Commons’ server is mirrored to Amazon S3 so that you can easily navigate to a specific file.
• File metadata (in XML format) is also copied to your S3 bucket.
• You will always have access to an up-to-date archive of all of your files.
  • Hidden structures/records are not included in bepress Archive; however, unhiding them temporarily will allow the service to push a copy to your S3 bucket.
  • Hidden supplemental files are included in bepress Archive.

The bepress Archive Process

• You will create your own Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. It’s easy to sign up, and there is no fee to create an account: http://aws.amazon.com/free/.
• Next, you will create a place in the S3 service to hold all of your files. S3 refers to the place where you store your files as a “bucket.”
• You will provide us with (1) access to your bucket using a code snippet we give you, (2) the name of your bucket, and (3) the name of the region your bucket is in. Note: bepress Archive works with regions that support S3 Signature Version 2. Currently, the US East (Ohio)/us-east-2 region isn't compatible with that version, so please choose a different region; a close alternative is US East (N. Virginia)/us-east-1).
• We will copy all of your current files to your S3 bucket (see note above about hidden content).
• Subsequently, new posts to your IR (or revisions) will trigger an action to push your content to your S3 bucket.