The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Museum Victoria to preserve their ejournals in CLOCKSS’s geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a “trigger event” and ensures an author’s work will be maximally accessible and useful over time.
Museum Victoria’s scientific editor Richard Marchant notes that “the museum produces two online scientific journals: Memoirs of Museum Victoria and Museum Victoria Science Reports. Both of these titles will be archived by CLOCKSS and the museum looks forward to a long term partnership with the CLOCKSS Archive.”
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “The CLOCKSS Archive welcomes Museum Victoria’s ejournals with their coverage of natural sciences , into the community’s archive. By archiving with CLOCKSS, Museum Victoria has ensured that the scholarship in their publications will be available for a worldwide audience now and in the future in a manner that secures them for the long-term good of scholars.”
About: Museum Victoria’s origins date back to 1854, with the founding of the National Museum of Victoria and the establishment, in 1870, of the Industrial and Technological Museum of Victoria (later known as the Science Museum of Victoria). By proclamation of the Museums Act 1983 (Vic.), these two institutions were amalgamated to form what is known today as Museum Victoria, governed by the Museums Board of Victoria.http://museumvictoria.com.au. Museum Victoria is the largest museum organisation in Australia, and holds a collection in excess of 17 million objects. Museum Victoria operates three major museums in Melbourne – Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, and the Immigration Museum.