The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Libertas Academica to preserve their ejournals 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, Libertas Academica has committed to the preservation of their ejournals. 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.
Tom Hill, CEO of Libertas Academica, comments, “Libertas is very pleased to extend our current archiving activities to include CLOCKSS. We regard archiving as one of the foremost responsibilities of all legitimate open access publishers. Our decision to work with the highly-regarded CLOCKSS reflects our commitment to the very best level of service to authors and readers. One of CLOCKSS’ most notable strengths is its commitment to make archived content publically available in certain circumstances, and although after seven years of successful continuous operation the likelihood of such a “trigger event” is extremely remote, we consider that this development is an essential element of our responsibility for our authors’ papers. Libertas looks forward to working with the professional staff of CLOCKSS in the future.”
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “The CLOCKSS Archive welcomes Libertas Academica’s STM ejournals into the community’s archive. By archiving with CLOCKSS, Libertas Academica has ensured that the ideas in their publications will continue to be available to as wide an audience as possible, now and in the future. We are grateful, as Libertas Academica joins the CLOCKSS Archive, for its generous willingness to preserve its ejournals in a way that secures them for the long-term good of scholars worldwide.”
About Libertas Academica: Libertas is a publisher of scientific, technical and medical open-access journals founded in 2005. Literally translated, Libertas Academica means “freedom to scholars” or “freedom to research”. http://www.la-press.com/