CLOCKSS is pleased to announce that two new society publishers have recently joined the CLOCKSS archive. The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society have signed agreements this fall to join CLOCKSS and preserve their materials in the CLOCKSS network of geographically and geopolitically distributed archive nodes. CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is a community-governed, not-for-profit archive founded by librarians and publishers to ensure the long-term availability of scholarly digital content.
As part of joining CLOCKSS, the two societies agree to release their archived content to the world for free if a time comes when it is no longer available from any publisher (“trigger event”). “The Royal Society of Chemistry is pleased to be involved with the CLOCKSS archiving program. We appreciate the importance of archiving articles from important scholarly journals for future generations of researchers and see CLOCKSS as a major initiative within this area,” said James Milne, the Editorial Director of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society will also each appoint representatives to the CLOCKSS board. The board is made up of world-leading publishers and libraries who work together to govern the archive and set strategies and policies, such as how to extend CLOCKSS to smaller scholarly publishers and those in the developing world. Stuart Taylor, Head of Publishing at Royal Society Publishing, commented that, “In an increasingly digital age in which the use of print journals is declining rapidly, the question of the long term security of digital content is a critical one. We are pleased to be joining CLOCKSS which offers a well thought-out and organised solution for scholars, publishers and librarians.”
“We are pleased to welcome these new societies to the CLOCKSS community. The commitment is growing among publishers to preserve their content in a way that keeps it in the hands of scholars,” said CLOCKSS Co-Chair Gordon Tibbitts. “The CLOCKSS model really appeals to scholarly societies and their members, who want to make sure their materials remain as useful and available as possible over the very long term.”
About RSC Publishing. RSC Publishing is a not-for-profit publisher wholly owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. One of the largest and most dynamic publishers of chemical science information in the world, RSC’s publishing activity dates back to 1841 and features a wide range of journals, magazines, databases and books. http://www.rsc.org/publishing
About Royal Society Publishing. Royal Society Publishing is the publishing division of the Royal Society. The Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660.http://royalsocietypublishing.org