How Does an Archive Guarantee “Forever”? Researchers, librarians, and publishers look to CLOCKSS and other long-term archives to guarantee that the scholarly record will remain intact in a world where rapid change has become a constant. CLOCKSS is taking steps now, as a strong and stable organization, to formalize its Succession Plan and ensure the […]

A Journal Article is Forever

THE LONG-TERM PRESERVATION OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS The long term preservation of open access journals is one of the 7 criteria for the DOAJ Seal because DOAJ believes that it is an extremely important business process which a publisher of academic content should commit to. This couldn’t be more applicable than in the Global South where financial support and rigorous

Today the CLOCKSS Archive – the long-term preservation service for scholarly content — announced that the CLOCKSS system will preserve all Crossref metadata. The Crossref system contains bibliographic information for 97 million scholarly articles and book content, and growing by ~2 million each year. Crossref is the underlying infrastructure for several crucial features of scholarly

CLOCKSS today announced that five additional publishers are working with the archive to preserve their publications for future generations of researchers. “Perpetual access to academic content is a very important asset for the scholarly community. Being an academic publisher, it is one of our key missions and therefore I am glad that CLOCKSS and IOS

The CLOCKSS Archive and SAGE Publishing announced today that the SAGE e-book offerings on its SAGE Research Methods (SRM) and SAGE Knowledge (SK) platforms will be digitally preserved for the long-term in the CLOCKSS Archive. SAGE, an independent academic publisher, is known for its commitment to quality and innovation, and has helped to inform and

The CLOCKSS Archive today announced that twenty-one journals have been triggered for open access by the CLOCKSS Board of Directors. The triggers occurred after Sage Publishing ceased publishing twenty-one titles after purchasing the full portfolio of Libertas Academica in late 2016, and the content would no longer be available online. The publications have been preserved

Code Ocean compute capsules associated with published research will now be preserved by CLOCKSS Code Ocean and CLOCKSS announce that Code Ocean will preserve its compute capsules in the CLOCKSS Archive to ensure the long-term accessibility of code associated with research articles. Code and software are increasingly crucial to the conduct of research and to

The CLOCKSS Archive is a charter member of a new and growing collaboration of higher-education and non-profit entities dedicated to digital preservation. We have pledged to emphasize what unites us and to actively seek ways that, by coordinating our efforts across the communities that we serve, can accelerate progress in preserving digital content at scales

In conjunction with Duke University Press, the CLOCKSS Archive takes pleasure in announcing the preservation of the Press’s six mathematics titles from the Project Euclid platform. This is in addition to the Press’s other humanities and social sciences journals which have been included in the archive since 2012. The mathematics titles are: Annals of Functional Analysis Journal