CLOCKSS is pleased to announce a new group of five scholarly publishers that have recently joined the CLOCKSS archive:
American Academy of Pediatrics http://www.aap.org/
Co-Action Publishers http://www.co-action.net/
Edinburgh University Press http://www.euppublishing.com/
Liverpool University Press http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/
Rockefeller University Press http://www.rupress.org/
CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keeps 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. The archive is distributed across a worldwide network of twelve geographically and geopolitically diverse archive nodes.
This latest group of publishers to join CLOCKSS collectively archives over 60 journals, and adds to the diversity of publishers in the CLOCKSS community: from society publishers and university presses, to open-access publishers such as Co-Action.
As part of joining CLOCKSS, publishers 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 new participating publishers 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.
“CLOCKSS is pleased to work with such a diverse group of publishers. We designed the archive to benefit the entire scholarly publishing community: open access, commercial, non-profit, and society publishers, small and large,” said Gordon Tibbitts, CLOCKSS Executive Director and President of Atypon. “By keeping costs low and involving all participants in archive decisions, CLOCKSS has built a strong community and can preserve as wide a range of scholarly materials as possible.”
About CLOCKSS CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community. For more information, please contact info@clockss.org. http://www.clockss.org