A meeting of brilliant minds

LOCKSS founders Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal recall their early efforts to Keep Stuff Safe, and their motivation for the innovative digital preservation system The foundation of LOCKSS in 1999 was conceived in an unlikely spot – when Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal were hiking the Cañada de Pala trail at Joseph D. Grant County

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Martin Eve – Crossref DOIs, persistent discovery, and the digital preservation of 7.5 million items

It’s hard to know what is preserved, and that seems to me quite a fundamental problem. I write this blog wearing my Crossref hat. The point of the Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) that we issue is that the link to the content is persistent. If the original publisher goes bankrupt or disappears for any reason,

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OECD working with CLOCKSS and the Global LOCKSS Network to ensure long-term preservation

OECD is working with both CLOCKSS and the Global LOCKSS Network to ensure the long-term preservation of books, journals, datasets and working papers in the OECD iLibrary. OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers, podcasts and statistics and is the knowledge base of

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Université Libre de Bruxelles libraries’ three-tier digital preservation strategy

The iconic entrance foyer of the Simone Veil Humanities Library, Université libre de Bruxelles (Photo credits: Marie Ozanne) Academic libraries face multiple challenges in this era dominated by digital technology Our mission goes far beyond providing access to the digital scholarly collections to which we subscribe. We must also guarantee access to these resources even

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OAPEN books preserved with CLOCKSS

OAPEN and CLOCKSS have developed a strategic relationship for the long-term preservation of Open Access books! What better way to celebrate World Preservation Day? It all began when we commissioned a project from the terrific Mikael Laakso, now published as Open access books through open data sources: Assessing prevalence, providers, and preservation. Mikael explains in

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Annual Update 2022-23

Thank you for being part of the largest global community in digital preservation! Together we preserve the scholarly record, so it remains accessible for all, and we protect the legacy of academic authors around the world. 2022-2023 Highlights The CLOCKSS community is growing! Content has been added to the archive from 556 participating publishers including

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Rule of Three: Digital Preservation for Open Journals at the University of Florida

  Contributors – Chelsea Johnston & Judy Russell For hundreds of years, libraries have collected, distributed, and preserved print content. The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida, as a large research library, participates in a significant array of preservation networks where we collaborate with other institutions to ensure future use for monographs,

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