Author name: Alicia Wise

There is a new (free!) resource on the LIBLICENSE website: https://liblicense.crl.edu/resources/digital-preservation/ A 2022 review revealed that digital preservation language in many existing agreements is: • Vague • Unclear regarding the precise content and time depth preserved • Unnecessarily restrictive in terms of access and/or use • A conflation of long-term digital preservation and access with […]

Q: Should researchers feel confident that their contributions to scholarship are safe for the long-term? Recent research by Michelle Polchow at UC-Davis suggests that she can only find evidence that 40% of their journal collection is preserved in digital archives. Miguel: They can be confident if their research outputs are deposited in the information systems

We are thrilled to welcome Brett Thomas to the CLOCKSS team as Engagement Director. His role is primarily library-facing, and he is keen to engage with librarians around the world to explore how we can work together to protect knowledge! Helpfully, for this international challenge, he speaks 6 languages. Welcome, Brett! Find out how to

Libraries of all sizes and service sectors share a commitment to ensuring that textual artifacts—past and present—will remain accessible to future generations.  That said, it is the larger research libraries that have disproportionately shouldered the burden for the preservation and/or conservation of scholarly and cultural artifacts.  In the print world, preservation policies and protocols were

Today the CLOCKSS Archive – the long-term preservation service for scholarly content — announced that the CLOCKSS system will preserve all Crossref metadata. The Crossref system contains bibliographic information for 97 million scholarly articles and book content, and growing by ~2 million each year. Crossref is the underlying infrastructure for several crucial features of scholarly

CLOCKSS today announced that five additional publishers are working with the archive to preserve their publications for future generations of researchers. “Perpetual access to academic content is a very important asset for the scholarly community. Being an academic publisher, it is one of our key missions and therefore I am glad that CLOCKSS and IOS

The CLOCKSS Archive and SAGE Publishing announced today that the SAGE e-book offerings on its SAGE Research Methods (SRM) and SAGE Knowledge (SK) platforms will be digitally preserved for the long-term in the CLOCKSS Archive. SAGE, an independent academic publisher, is known for its commitment to quality and innovation, and has helped to inform and

The CLOCKSS Archive today announced that twenty-one journals have been triggered for open access by the CLOCKSS Board of Directors. The triggers occurred after Sage Publishing ceased publishing twenty-one titles after purchasing the full portfolio of Libertas Academica in late 2016, and the content would no longer be available online. The publications have been preserved

Code Ocean compute capsules associated with published research will now be preserved by CLOCKSS Code Ocean and CLOCKSS announce that Code Ocean will preserve its compute capsules in the CLOCKSS Archive to ensure the long-term accessibility of code associated with research articles. Code and software are increasingly crucial to the conduct of research and to

The CLOCKSS Archive is a charter member of a new and growing collaboration of higher-education and non-profit entities dedicated to digital preservation. We have pledged to emphasize what unites us and to actively seek ways that, by coordinating our efforts across the communities that we serve, can accelerate progress in preserving digital content at scales