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The CLOCKSS Archive Is Pleased to Announce the Participation of Four New
Publishers in Its Digital Preservation Archive: SPIE, IGI Global,
Multi-Science Publishing, and the National Academies Press.
Full announcements can be found at http://www.clockss.org/clockss/News.
*apologies for cross posting*
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SPIE
SPIE Director of Publications Eric Pepper noted, “SPIE believes that the
community of researchers, educators, and students who are involved in the
multidisciplinary fields of optics and photonics must have access to the
literature of these fields in perpetuity. In fact, we are digitizing our
earliest publications at this time in order to expand such access.
Participation in CLOCKSS is part of our program to ensure this access into
the future.”
About SPIE: SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics,
founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving approximately
180,000 constituents from more than 170 countries, the Society advances
emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange,
continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and
professional growth. The SPIE Digital Library includes over 325,000 items
from *Proceedings of SPIE*, SPIE Journals, and SPIE eBooks. http://spie.org
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IGI Global
Saeed Otufat-Shamsi, IGI Global's Senior Director of Business
Development, commented, "IGI Global supports the library's role as the
custodians of archived content, ensuring that electronic content is
protected for future generations of researchers. We are pleased to partner
with CLOCKSS to provide a permanent archive of our electronic scholarly
journals and books through one of the most advanced digital preservation
initiatives. The solution of a decentralized, geographically disparate
preservation model ensures that the digital assets of the community will
survive intact."
About IGI Global: Since 1988, IGI Global has provided comprehensive
research materials on computer science and information technology
management, focusing on the ways in which information technology affects
human activities and interactions across disciplines. With offices in
Hershey, PA, New York City, and Vancouver, BC, IGI Global is a leading
multimedia publisher of books, journals, teaching cases, and databases
covering the areas of education, social science, library science,
healthcare, business management, public administration, and computer
science. http://www.igi-global.com/
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Multi-Science Publishing
Commented Multi-Science Director Bill Hughes, “The coming of the digital
age has provided huge benefits for all engaged in scholarly communication,
whether as researchers, librarians or publishers. However, the spectre
exists, for future generations, of a landscape of broken links and
unretrievable research. CLOCKSS activities make that possibility less
likely, so we are pleased to be working with them to ensure that our modest
contribution to learning is preserved for the benefit of future
generations.”
About Multi-Science Publishing: Established for over 50 years,
Multi-Science specializes in publishing journals that fill gaps in the
scientific literature and are responses to technological developments that
call new disciplines into existence. All Multi-Sciences primary journals
are fully refereed. As well as journals, Multi-Science publishes books in
the same subject areas as its journals. http://www.multi-science.co.uk
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National Academies Press
Barbara Kline Pope, Executive Director of the National Academies Press,
remarked, “We trust CLOCKSS to take care of archiving the nearly 4,000
books that document decades of authoritative information and knowledge of
the National Academy of Sciences and its affiliated organizations. In
addition, we know that these important works will be accessible if, for
some reason, we are no longer able to make them freely available.”
About National Academies Press: The National Academies Press (NAP) was
created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the
National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the
Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating
under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. The NAP
publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science,
engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on
important issues in science and health policy. The institutions represented
by the NAP are unique in that they attract the nation’s leading experts in
every field to serve on their award-winning panels and committees.
http://www.nap.edu/
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About CLOCKSS:
The CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) Archive 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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