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AIP Partners with CLOCKSS to Digitally Archive
All of AIP's Electronically Published Material
Participation ensures perpetual access to AIP online content
Melville, NY, June 12, 2009 - The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced
today that online versions of all its journals will soon reside in the dark
archive, CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a joint venture by
libraries and publishers committed to ensuring long-term access to scholarly
publications in digital format. CLOCKSS will make AIP content freely available
in the event that AIP is no longer able to provide access.
“AIP has long been committed to digital archiving, formulating our first
policy statement on the subject more than 10 years ago,” said Tim Ingoldsby,
AIP’s Director of Strategic Initiatives and Publisher Relations. “In the
intervening years, we’ve been gratified when other publishers have taken our
framework as a model when fashioning their own archiving policy.”
The CLOCKSS initiative was created in response to the growing concern that
digital content purchased by libraries may not always be available due to
discontinuation of an electronic journal or because of a catastrophic event.
CLOCKSS creates a secure, multi-site archive of web-published content that can
be tapped into to provide ongoing access to researchers worldwide, free of
charge.
“Today, when over one half of all our subscriptions are online only, we owe
it to our customers more than ever to provide the best security possible for
their electronic products, said Mark Cassar, AIP's Acting Publisher. “Our
nearly three-year-old partnership with Portico, and now our participation in the
CLOCKSS initiative, solidifies this commitment.”
CLOCKSS’ decentralized, geographically distributed preservation strategy
ensures that the digital assets of the global research community will survive
intact. Additionally, it satisfies the demand for locally situated archives with
15 archive nodes planned worldwide by 2010.
The American Institute of Physics is a federation of 10 physical science
societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators
and is one of the world’s largest publishers of scientific information in
physics. Offering full-solution publishing services for physics scientific
societies and for similar organizations in science and engineering, AIP pursues
innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes its own
12 journals (many of which have the highest impact factors in their category);
two magazines, including its flagship publication Physics Today; and the AIP
Conference Proceedings. Its online publishing platform Scitation hosts nearly
two million articles from more than 185 scholarly journals, and other
publications of 28 learned society publishers.
For more information, please contact:
Tim Ingoldsby
Phone: +1 516 576 2265
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