CLOCKSS is pleased to announce that it has partnered with The Pennsylvania State University Press to preserve their e-journals and e-books 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, Penn State University Press has committed to the preservation of their e-journals and e-Books. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a “trigger event” and ensures that an author’s work will be maximally accessible and useful over time.
“The Pennsylvania State University Press takes great pride in partnering with CLOCKSS on behalf of our many Societies, editors, authors, and researchers worldwide. Respected by institutions, libraries, and scholars worldwide, CLOCKSS tackles the varied and ever-changing challenges of today’s scholarly communication, and assists Penn State University Press in meeting its institutional and strategic objectives and in realizing its commitment to preserve and archive digital scholarly research.” – Patrick H. Alexander, Director, The Pennsylvania State University Press
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “We are excited to expand our coverage of university press content as CLOCKSS welcomes Penn State University Press’s e-journals and e-books into the community’s archive. We have worked to reduce the fees for the presses when their library is also a supporter. CLOCKSS has achieved a rare consensus among libraries and publishers, and we are grateful as Penn State University Press joins the CLOCKSS Archive for its generous willingness to preserve its e-journals and e-books in a way that secures them for the long-term good of scholars worldwide.”
About Penn State University Press: The publishing arm of the Pennsylvania State University and a division of the Penn State University Libraries and Scholarly Communications, Penn State University Press is dedicated to serving the University community, the citizens of Pennsylvania, and scholars worldwide by publishing books and journals of the highest quality. The Press promotes the advance of scholarship by disseminating knowledge—new information, interpretations, methods of analysis—with an emphasis on core fields of the humanities and social sciences. http://www.psupress.org
About CLOCKSS: CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community. http://www.clockss.org