With apologies for cross-posting

 

05 July 2010, Leeds and London, UK, and Cambridge and Philadelphia, USA

 

For immediate release

 

Maney Publishing has joined the CLOCKSS, LOCKSS and Portico digital
preservation services to guarantee the long-term security of its
e-journal content.

 

Maney currently has more than 100 e-journals in materials science and
engineering, health sciences and humanities. The partnerships enhance
the service Maney offers to libraries, working to ensure perpetual
access is maintained for all journal subscribers, and support its
commitment to the long-term preservation and future accessibility of
Maney's e-journal content.

 

CLOCKSS will preserve Maney journals in its geographically and
geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located
at 11 major research libraries around the world. 

 

With LOCKSS Maney joins approximately 400 leading scholarly publishers
that have granted permission for their content to be preserved and for
the provision of post-cancellation access by LOCKSS Alliance
participants.

 

Maney is one of 111 publishers, representing more than 2,000 societies
and associations, which work with Portico. Portico currently has 11,330
e-journal titles and 43,253 e-book titles committed to the archive, and
657 participating libraries around the world.

 

 

 

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.

www.clockss.org 

 

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), based at Stanford University
Libraries, is an international community initiative that provides
libraries with digital preservation tools and support so that they can
easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copies of
authorized e-content. www.lockss.org 

 

Portico is a digital preservation service for electronic journals,
books, and other content. Portico is a service of ITHAKA, a
not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the academic community
use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance
research and teaching in sustainable ways. www.portico.org 

 

Maney Publishing was formed in 1997 from a printing company established
in 1900, and publishes scholarly journals in materials science, the
humanities, and health science. Maney is committed to publishing high
quality journals in print and electronic formats that are international
in scope and peer-reviewed. With offices in Leeds and London in the UK,
and in Cambridge and Philadelphia in North America, Maney publishes
extensively for learned societies, universities and professional bodies
around the world.  www.maney.co.uk

 

 

Alison Holgate
Marketing & PR Executive

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