The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that the Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) is participating in the archive to preserve their e-journals and e-books 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 published on PsychOpen, their European open-access publishing platform for psychology, to continue to be freely available to everyone after a “trigger event” and ensures an author’s work will be maximally accessible and useful over time.
“We are pleased to be partnering with CLOCKSS to ensure the long-term preservation of our online journals and other content that we publish on PsychOpen” says Prof. Dr. Armin Günther, member of the PsychOpen team. “As we are strongly committed to open access and the free dissemination of psychological knowledge, the next step for us was to ensure the long-term availability of our content. With the partnership between PsychOpen and CLOCKSS, the editors and authors of our journals can rest assured that their research will be available over time; thus, the international visibility, reception, and citation of their work will be possible at all times.”
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “The CLOCKSS Archive welcomes the Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information’s e-journals and e-books, with their comprehensive information in the field of psychology, into the community’s archive. By archiving with CLOCKSS, ZPID has ensured that the scholarship in their publications will continue to be widespread in the future. We are grateful, as ZPID joins the CLOCKSS Archive, for its generous willingness to preserve its e-journals in a way that secures them for the long-term use of scholars worldwide.”
About: Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) is the psychology information center for the German-speaking countries, creating electronic databases on literature, tests, research data, audiovisual media, and Web resources to meet the information needs of scientists and psychology professionals. http://www.zpid.de/en.
PsychOpen publishes open-access content in the field of psychology on behalf of professional bodies, institutions and learned societies to foster the visibility of psychological research. PsychOpen welcomes a variety of publication types, such as research articles, monographs and clinical reports, from all areas of psychology and its related disciplines and covering scholarly as well as professional topics. PsychOpen is free of charge to authors, editors and readers. http://www.psychopen.eu