When people hear the phrase digital preservation, they often think about servers, storage systems, and complex technology. While those things are certainly part of the picture, a recent webinar featuring Dr. Chelsea Denault of the Michigan Digital Preservation Network (MDPN) offered a refreshing reminder that successful preservation efforts are ultimately about people. In conversation with

Geo-political, technological, economic, and environmental change are heightening the risks of disruption to access and information.  Research has already been lost. Institutions have increased their reliance on commercial cloud storage, and also risk vendor lock-in. There remains a critical need for secure, community-governed digital preservation with human oversight and stewardship to help ensure long-term access to knowledge for future generations. CLOCKSS and LOCKSS

In the rapidly evolving world of scholarly communication, open access publishing has transformed how research is shared, discovered, and used across the globe. Yet while accessibility often takes centre stage, one equally critical issue can sometimes be overlooked: preservation. Ensuring that open access research remains permanently accessible for future generations is essential to maintaining the

Digital preservation exists to safeguard knowledge for the future. But as the volume of digital content continues to grow, so too does the need to better understand the environmental impact of the systems, storage, infrastructure, and workflows that support long-term preservation. That is why the release of the new Carbon Footprint Toolkit by the Digital

Digital preservation is often misunderstood. Many institutions assume that once materials are digitized, they are preserved. But as a recent conversation between experts in the field highlighted, this assumption can lead to the loss of valuable cultural and scholarly content. In our April webinar we hosted Kwesi Sewe of University of Ghana who shared firsthand

At CLOCKSS, our mission has always been clear: to ensure that the world’s scholarly and cultural knowledge remains accessible, reliable, and preserved for the long term. But preservation alone is not enough. If knowledge is not accessible to everyone, then it is not truly preserved. That’s why, over the past six months, we’ve taken significant

In an increasingly uncertain world, the question is no longer whether our digital knowledge is at risk, but how we collectively protect it. In January 2026, a group of international leaders from national libraries, cultural institutions, and digital preservation organisations, including CLOCKSS, came together in the Netherlands to confront a growing challenge: how to safeguard

In our recent webinar, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. José Manuel Barrueco from the University of Valencia, in conversation alongside Alicia Wise, Executive Director of CLOCKSS. What began as a discussion about digital preservation quickly evolved into a broader reflection on how the scholarly community thinks about responsibility, priorities, and the future of

In its ongoing mission to preserve and share the scholarly record, the CLOCKSS Archive has recently triggered two academic journals that are now freely accessible to everyone. When content in the archive is no longer available from any publisher, CLOCKSS makes it publicly and permanently available under open access terms. (https://clockss.org/triggered-content/) Journal of African Cultural Heritage Studies – The Journal of

In a complex world, we stand for shared digital stewardship of assets of culture and knowledge across time and space. Access to culture and knowledge is a cornerstone of democracy and human rights. For generations, libraries, archives, museums, and related institutions have acted as stewards of this shared inheritance. Today, that institutional responsibility is under