CLOCKSS is pleased to announce that it has partnered with the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) to preserve their journals in CLOCKSS’s geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world.
CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community.
By archiving with CLOCKSS, ASPET has committed to CLOCKSS for preservation of its society’s journals. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a “trigger event” and ensures that an author’s work will be maximally accessible and useful over time.
ASPET Journals Director Rich Dodenhoff notes that ASPET began publishing in 1909, within six months of being organized. “Participation in CLOCKSS assures that the Society’s rich archive of pharmacological knowledge will be preserved so that researchers can continue to build upon it. This is as much a commitment to the future as to the past. ASPET is glad to participate in CLOCKSS.”
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “CLOCKSS welcomes ASPET’s journals into the community’s archive. CLOCKSS has achieved a rare consensus among libraries and publishers, and we are grateful to ASPET for its generous willingness to preserve its journals in a way that secures them for the long-term good of scholars worldwide.”
About ASPET: Founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1908, the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics was established to further the growth of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics and to facilitate personal intercourse among investigators in these branches of science. Today, ASPET is the premier American scientific society for pharmacologists and publishes five high-impact peer-reviewed journals (Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Pharmacological Reviews, Molecular Pharmacology, Drug Metabolism and Disposition, and Molecular Interventions). The Society provides a variety of other important services to its more than 4,400 members worldwide, who are involved in basic and applied research, teaching, and administration. http://www.aspet.org
About CLOCKSS: CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community. http://www.clockss.org