The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) to preserve their e-journal 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, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice has committed to the preservation of their e-journal. 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.
Denise Koufogiannakis, Editor-in-Chief of the journal, notes, “EBLIP is pleased to partner with CLOCKSS in order to ensure long-term preservation and access to our journal’s content. As an open access and online-only publication, we know that this partnership will strengthen the trust that authors place in EBLIP when choosing to publish with us. We value the CLOCKSS Archive’s commitment to the preservation of scholarly information, and its collaborative and distributed model for doing so.”
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “The CLOCKSS Archive welcomes Evidence Based Library and Information Practice into the community’s archive. As an open access publication, by archiving with CLOCKSS, they have ensured that the original research and commentary in their publication will remain available to all, now and in the future. CLOCKSS has achieved a rare consensus among libraries and publishers, and we are grateful, as Evidence Based Library and Information Practice joins the CLOCKSS Archive, for its generous willingness to preserve the publication in a way that secures it for the long-term good of scholars worldwide.”
About Evidence Based Library and Information Practice: EBLIP is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal and is supported by an international team of editorial advisors. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP publishes original research and commentary on the topic of evidence-based library and information practice, as well as reviews of previously published research (evidence summaries) on a wide variety of topics. The journal is hosted by Learning Services at the University of Alberta. http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP