CLOCKSS is very pleased to announce that it has added a twelfth library to its network of worldwide distributed archive nodes.
The new node is hosted at Humboldt University, in Berlin, Germany. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has provided funding for the University to represent Germany in this important international initiative.
Humboldt University joins the CLOCKSS board, and will work alongside all participating publishers and libraries to decide on policies and best practices for the archive. At Humboldt, both the Computer and Media Service and the Berlin School for Library and Information Science will provide the knowledge, community and technical support necessary and look forward to be able to contribute to long-term preservation of scholarly publications in a larger scale.
Michael Seadle, Director of the Berlin School of Library and Information Sciences at Humboldt University, said “At Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, we regard CLOCKSS as a key component of the infrastructure for preserving scholarly content for future centuries and we are pleased to play a role in the CLOCKSS network on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany.”
The node at Humboldt University will store a complete version of the CLOCKSS archive content and will use award-winning open-source LOCKSS technology to automatically and continually check with the other nodes, audit itself, and repair any differences. If content in the archive becomes no longer available from any publisher (“trigger” event), CLOCKSS will release the content and make it available for free to the entire world.
Gordon Tibbitts, Executive Director of CLOCKSS, said “We are grateful to Humboldt University for taking on this important responsibility. Joining forces with Humboldt University as our twelfth archive node is a major step for the CLOCKSS effort to protect the world’s scholarship and keep it in the hands of scholars.”
The twelve CLOCKSS archive nodes are hosted at: Australian National University Humboldt University Indiana University National Institute of Informatics, Japan OCLC Online Computer Library Center Rice University Stanford University Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore University of Alberta University of Edinburgh University of Hong Kong University of Virginia
About Humboldt University Founded in 1810 according to the concept which Wilhelm von Humboldt had put forward, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin was the “mother of all modern universities”. It lives up to its history as a reform-orientated institution by planting innovative ideas into study, research and structure. http://www.hu-berlin.de/