The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with KwaZulu-Natal Museum to preserve its ejournal African Invertebrates 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.
African Invertebrates Editor-in-Chief Mike Mostovski says, “It is a major breakthrough for our journal to become primarily electronic and to be archived for perpetuity with CLOCKSS. This route enables us to fulfill our mandate in propagating fundamental natural science research in Africa and globally. We are grateful for the opportunity to preserve invaluable scientific information for the present and future generations of scientists and public at large.”
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “The CLOCKSS Archive welcomes KwaZulu-Natal Museum’s ejournal African Invertebrates into the community’s archive. By archiving with CLOCKSS, the KwaZulu-Natal Museum has ensured that the scholarship in their publication will continue to be available to both scientific organizations and the general public now and in the future.”
About the KwaZulu-Natal Museum: KwaZulu-Natal Museum ranks among the top national natural and cultural history museums in South Africa and is renowned for its unique collection of arthropods, earthworms and molluscs. http://www.nmsa.org.za