The 2026 Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact has been awarded to Digital Preservation of the Scholarly Record, recognizing the collaborative achievements of libraries, publishers, technologists, and preservationists who have worked tirelessly to ensure that the scholarly record remains accessible, reliable, and secure.
Digital preservation ensures that researchers, now and in the future, have reliable access to the full breadth of scholarly literature, providing a crucial safeguard against the loss of information due to technological obsolescence over time, infrastructure failure, publisher cessation, or other catastrophic events. As research builds upon the work that came before, the ongoing availability of the scholarly record is essential for progress and integrity in scholarship. Today, a robust and diverse ecosystem of digital preservation services and technical solutions underpins this mission, providing redundancy and resilience for the global research community.
The Rosenblum Award, established in memory of Bruce Rosenblum and now in its second year, recognizes technologies, infrastructure, standards, or practices that have become indispensable to scholarly publishing. It is managed collaboratively by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the Association of University Presses (AUPresses), the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM).