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Please find below the latest announcement from Oxford Journals, which I
hope will be of interest.
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Mithu
Mithu Mukherjee
Communications Executive
Oxford Journals
Oxford University Press
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Oxford
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Long-term access to Oxford Journals content receives further boost with
LOCKSS Programme
20 October 2005
Oxford Journals is delighted to announce that it is to begin preserving
its content in Stanford University's LOCKSS Programme.
The LOCKSS Programme (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is a community
based, open source, persistent access digital preservation system. It
enables publishers to guarantee long term perpetual access to their
content, by allowing libraries to store, preserve, and provide back-up
access to the content they have purchased.
Oxford Journals' participation in the LOCKSS Programme further
reinforces their commitment to providing long term accessibility,
following their archiving agreement with the National Library of the
Netherlands, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) in 2004, and their current
backfile digitization programme, due for completion in early 2006.
"Preserving access to scholarly research is a critical issue for Oxford
Journals and its publishing partners," commented Martin Richardson,
Managing Director, Oxford Journals. He continued:
"With more and more content becoming available online, we are concerned
to ensure that this electronic information is as permanent and
safeguarded as possible, so that research remains available for the long
term. We are delighted to be involved with the LOCKSS Programme to
further benefit our librarians and readers, both now and in the future."
By participating in the LOCKSS Programme, Oxford Journals grants
permission to LOCKSS alliance member libraries to use the LOCKSS
software to collect, preserve, and provide back-up access to its
content.
"The LOCKSS Programme believes that a core foundation of a library is
its collections. We are providing tools and documentation to member
libraries to help them build, preserve, and guarantee access to digital
collections in an easy and inexpensive way," said Victoria Reich,
Director LOCKSS Programme, Stanford University. "Oxford Journals'
participation in the LOCKSS Programme provides its libraries with the
assurance of current and perpetual access to content, whilst at the same
time retaining access control by only providing content to the original
authorized subscriber base."
Thirteen journals have already been added to the LOCKSS System (listed
below). Further Oxford Journals titles are scheduled to be added over
the coming year. Visit the LOCKSS website for more information.
Oxford Journals titles released for preservation so far:
* American Literary History
* Bioinformatics
* Biostatistics
* Brain
* Carcinogenesis
* Cerebral Cortex
* Chinese Journal of International Law
* Early Music Volume
* Essays in Criticism
* Glycobiology
* Human Rights Law Review
* Human Molecular Genetics
* Journal of Petrology
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For more information contact:
Mithu Mukherjee
Communications Executive
Oxford Journals +44 (0)1865 354471
Notes for Editors
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international of university presses. Founded in 1478, it currently
publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over fifty
countries, and employs some 3,700 people worldwide. It has become
familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that
includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music,
school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching
English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and
reference books, and journals.
Oxford Journals, a Division of OUP, publishes over 180 journals covering
a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in
collaboration with learned societies and other international
organisations. The collection contains some of the world's most
prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of
the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English
Historical Review, and the Review of Financial Studies. For further
information please visit the Oxford Journals website.
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