Issue 2, Volume 3 of The International Journal of Digital Curation is now available. The peer-reviewed papers offer a variety of topics. They include an exploration of data practices in the long-standing Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) setting, a description of experiences in the area of curating engineering information, how one group has dealt with migration problems in a long-term archive of US Government Printing Office datasets, a description of tools from the SCOPE (Scientific Compound Object Publishing and Editing) system which is designed to enable scientists to author, publish and edit scientific compound objects, together with research analysing the current parlous state of preservation of computer games in the UK. General articles include reports from iPRES 2008 and the 3rd Annual WePreserve Conference, experience from American Memory, another covers an international copyright study with implications for curation and preservation, while another describes steps being taken in Australia to establish a national distributed data service. We have also received articles from DCC staff working on both the Digital Audit Framework and DRAMBORA. The IJDC is produced by UKOLN on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre.