The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Knowledge Unlatched to preserve their ebooks in CLOCKSS’s geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. 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.
Knowledge Unlatched’s Executive Director, Frances Pinter, said, “We seek to reassure libraries around the world that the books that they are facilitating to be made available on an Open Access license will remain accessible in perpetuity. In partnering with CLOCKSS we are securing the content’s future.”
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “By archiving with CLOCKSS, Knowledge Unlatched has ensured that the scholarship in their collection of ebooks will be available for a worldwide audience now and in the future in a manner that secures them for the long-term good of scholars.”
About: Knowledge Unlatched believes that by working together libraries and publishers can create a sustainable route to Open Access for scholarly books and secure long-term cost savings for their own institutions by sharing the costs of making HSS monographs available on a Creative Commons license.