The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with UKSG, the nonprofit organization that connects the information community, to preserve its eJournal and eBook 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, UKSG has committed to the preservation of Serials, its forthcoming successor, Insights, and The E-Resources Management Handbook. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a “trigger event” and ensures UKSG authors’ works will be maximally accessible and useful over time.
”Our handbook and journal provide practical support, strategic insight and valuable cross-community discussion,” comments Hazel Woodward, Chair of UKSG’s Publications Subcommittee. “They have foreseen, debated and documented the immense changes in the knowledge community over 25 years. It’s important that this ongoing dialogue is preserved, to inform future developments; CLOCKSS provides us with a simple, cost-effective and community-oriented way to guarantee that long-term record.”
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “The CLOCKSS Archive welcomes UKSG’s e-journals and e-books into the community’s archive. UKSG encourages the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. By archiving with CLOCKSS, they have ensured that the ideas in their publications will be available now and in the future. CLOCKSS has achieved a rare consensus among libraries and publishers, and we are grateful, as UKSG joins the CLOCKSS Archive, for its generous willingness to preserve its e-journals and e-books in a way that secures them for the long-term good of scholars worldwide.”
About UKSG: UKSG exists to connect the information community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. It is the only organization spanning the wide range of interests and activities across the scholarly information community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries, and technology vendors. http://www.uksg.org