The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with PeerJ to preserve their ejournal 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, PeerJ has committed to the preservation of their ejournal. 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.
“PeerJ believes that scientific journal articles are some of the most valuable publications our society creates. As a result, it is essential to correctly archive them for future generations, and to protect the integrity of the scientific record. PeerJ is committed to secure archiving, and so we are pleased to announce this agreement with CLOCKSS” said Peter Binfield, Co-Founder and Publisher of PeerJ.
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “The CLOCKSS Archive welcomes PeerJ’s open-access ejournal with their coverage of scholarly research, into the community’s archive. By archiving with CLOCKSS, PeerJ has ensured that the research published in PeerJ will remain open access should there be a trigger event, and at the disposal of scholars. We are grateful, as PeerJ 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 PeerJ: PeerJ is an Open Access scholarly publisher in the Biological and Medical Sciences. Authors at PeerJ purchase a low-cost lifetime membership, which gives them the ability to publish their Open Access articles for free, for life. The company has two publications – a journal named “PeerJ” and a preprint server called “PeerJ PrePrints”. PeerJ is based in San Francisco, CA and London, UK and will receive its first submissions in Summer 2012, with first publications following by the end of 2012. See: http://peerj.com