February 1, 2011
CLOCKSS is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Springer
Science+Business Media to preserve over 32,000 e-books in CLOCKSS's
geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant
archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the
world.
A not-for-profit joint venture between the world's leading scholarly
publishers and research libraries CLOCKSS's mission is to build a
sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive for the benefit
of the greater global research community.
"All eBooks available in our eBook packages will be preserved in the
CLOCKSS archive," notes Heather Ruland Staines, Senior Manager
eOperations, who oversees Springer's participation in digital
preservation initiatives. "Because our eBook collections are offered
in an ownership model, we feel a particular responsibility to ensuring
their availability in perpetuity."
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS welcomes
Springer Science+Business Media e-books into the community's archive
as our first e-book collection."
Springer Science+Business Media is a leading global scientific
publisher, publishing around 2,000 journals and more than 6,500 new
books a year. It has the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide, and
is the largest business-to-business publisher in the German language.
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
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