The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Pensoft Publishers 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. By archiving with CLOCKSS, Pensoft Publishers has committed to the preservation of the electronic versions of their journals. 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.
“The agreement with CLOCKSS brought to us a long-seeked solution for fully automated harvesting, ingesting and preservation of the electronic content of our open access journals. Besides, the adjustment of our publishing system to CLOCKSS archive would make it attractive for other journals’ publishers to use” said Dr Lyubomir Penev, managing director of Pensoft.
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “The CLOCKSS Archive welcomes Pensoft Publishers’ open-access ejournals with their coverage of biodiversity science, plant systematics, phylogeny, and biogeography into the community’s archive. By archiving with CLOCKSS, Pensoft Publishers has ensured that the scholarship in their publications will remain available to a wide audience in the long term. We are grateful, as Pensoft Publishers joins the CLOCKSS Archive, for its generous willingness to preserve its ejournals in a way that secures them for the long-term good of scholars worldwide.”
About Pensoft Publishers Pensoft Publishers specialize in academic and professional book and journal publishing, mostly in the field of biodiversity science and natural history. Starting in 1994, Pensoft has become one of the leading academic publishers based in Eastern Europe with more than 800 books and ebooks published so far. Pensoft largely performs their activities in English, with only a minor fraction of our own publications being in French, German, Russian, or other languages. In 2010, Pensoft launched their own open-access journal publishing platform that implements cutting-edge technologies for semantic markup and automated dissemination of the published content. Currently Pensoft publishes 10 open-access journals (www.pensoft.net/journals). The flagship journal ZooKeys is recognized as a technological leader in publishing and dissemination of biodiversity information. http://www.pensoft.net