Projects: Advancing Digital Preservation Practice
CLOCKSS works in collaboration with key partners and participates in projects which help advance digital preservation practice by identifying challenges and ways to mitigate risk.
Current Projects
Supporting Academic Institutions Through Collaboration with LOCKSS
CLOCKSS and LOCKSS are exploring opportunities to better support academic institutions facing increasing technological, economic, environmental, and geopolitical risks. The initiative focuses on strengthening resilience, reducing dependence on commercial providers, and expanding access to community-governed preservation infrastructure. <link to blog>
Digital Preservation Advocacy Toolkit (with APTrust)
CLOCKSS and APTrust are working together to develop a practical advocacy toolkit that helps digital preservation practitioners communicate the value of preservation to institutional leaders, budget holders, and decision-makers. The project will provide templates, messaging frameworks, and resources that help organisations build stronger support for long-term preservation investment.
Project JASPER is an initiative to preserve the long tail of open access journals. It was launched in response to research by Mikael Laakso and colleagues demonstrating that online journals can just disappear from the internet. This can happen because of a lack of awareness amongst smaller publishers around the need for long-term digital preservation and/or the resources to enroll a journal in a long-term digital preservation scheme.
Long-term archiving of research resources is of paramount importance for scholarship. Authors want to ensure their contributions to the scholarly record will be permanent. Scholars must be able to access all of the published research in their fields, both now and long into the future.
Project JASPER aims to close the gap in preservation coverage that currently exists among open access journals, and CLOCKSS is delighted to be a project partner along with DOAJ, Internet Archive, Keepers Registry and PKP. Together we have built an easy-to-use system so that publishers of journals indexed in DOAJ can easily preserve their content in CLOCKSS, the Internet Archive, or PKP-PN.
Recent Publications
Past Projects
The Embedding Preservability project brought together publishers, libraries, preservation networks, and technology providers to explore how complex digital scholarship can be created in ways that remain both functional and preservable over time. Led by New York University Libraries and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project built on earlier work to develop practical guidance that helps publishers make informed design decisions without compromising long-term access to the scholarly record.
CLOCKSS was proud to contribute to this collaborative initiative alongside a wide range of partners from across the scholarly communications and digital preservation communities.
The Digital Preservation Service Collaborative Planning Project brought together leading preservation organisations to explore the feasibility of a shared, community-supported preservation service model. Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the initiative examined how organisations could work together to strengthen preservation capacity, improve sustainability, and better meet the evolving needs of institutions of all sizes.
CLOCKSS was pleased to participate in this collaborative effort alongside partners from across the digital preservation community, helping to shape conversations about the future of community-owned and values-driven preservation services.