Washington, DC, and Palo Alto, CA—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the CLOCKSS Archive have partnered to preserve ARL’s 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. By archiving with CLOCKSS, the Association of Research Libraries has committed to the preservation of their e-journals and e-books. 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 publications to be archived are available via ARL Digital Publications (http://publications.arl.org/). Currently this content includes the ARL Annual Salary Survey, the ARL Statistics collection, Research Library Issues, and SPEC Kits.
Charles B. Lowry, ARL Executive Director, said, “We are pleased that CLOCKSS is helping us ensure access to our flagship publications for years to come. These publications are important documents of the state of ARL member libraries and the approaches they take to current issues. They play a key role in strategic conversations about research libraries and in the historical record of the ARL community. It gives us peace of mind to know that they will be preserved by CLOCKSS.”
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “The CLOCKSS Archive welcomes the Association of Research Libraries’ e-journals and e-books into the community’s archive. By archiving with CLOCKSS, ARL has ensured that the issues of interest to academic and research library administrators, staff, and library education professionals will continue to be available in the future. CLOCKSS has achieved a rare consensus among libraries and publishers, and we are grateful, as the Association of Research Libraries 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 the Association of Research Libraries: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. http://www.arl.org