Announcement: Five new publishers join CLOCKSS
February 22, 2010 -- CLOCKSS is pleased to announce a new group of
five scholarly publishers that have recently joined the CLOCKSS
archive:
American Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/
Co-Action Publishers
http://www.co-action.net/
Edinburgh University Press
http://www.euppublishing.com/
Liverpool University Press
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/
Rockefeller University Press
http://www.rupress.org/
CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) is a
community-governed, not-for-profit archive founded by librarians and
publishers to ensure the long-term availability of scholarly digital
content. The archive is distributed across a worldwide network of
twelve geographically and geopolitically diverse archive nodes.
This latest group of publishers to join CLOCKSS collectively archives
over 60 journals, and adds to the diversity of publishers in the
CLOCKSS community: from society publishers and university presses, to
open-access publishers such as Co-Action.
As part of joining CLOCKSS, publishers agree to release their archived
content to the world for free if a time comes when it is no longer
available from any publisher ("trigger event"). The new participating
publishers will also each appoint representatives to the CLOCKSS
board. The board is made up of world-leading publishers and libraries
who work together to govern the archive and set strategies and
policies.
"CLOCKSS is pleased to work with such a diverse group of publishers.
We designed the archive to benefit the entire scholarly publishing
community: open access, commercial, non-profit, and society
publishers, small and large," said Gordon Tibbitts, CLOCKSS Executive
Director and President of Atypon. "By keeping costs low and involving
all participants in archive decisions, CLOCKSS has built a strong
community and can preserve as wide a range of scholarly materials as
possible."
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. For more information, please contact [log in to unmask]
http://www.clockss.org
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Gordon Tibbitts
Executive Director
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(617) 599-8236
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