CLOCKSS is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Springer Science+Business Media to preserve over 32,000 e-books in CLOCKSS’s geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world.
A not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries CLOCKSS’s mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive for the benefit of the greater global research community.
“All eBooks available in our eBook packages will be preserved in the CLOCKSS archive,” notes Heather Ruland Staines, Senior Manager eOperations, who oversees Springer’s participation in digital preservation initiatives. “Because our eBook collections are offered in an ownership model, we feel a particular responsibility to ensuring their availability in perpetuity.”
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “CLOCKSS welcomes Springer Science+Business Media e-books into the community’s archive as our first e-book collection.”
Springer Science+Business Media is a leading global scientific publisher, publishing around 2,000 journals and more than 6,500 new books a year. It has the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide, and is the largest business-to-business publisher in the German language.