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CILEA Interuniversity Consortium of Italy Partners with the CLOCKSS Archive (apologies for cross posting) June 25, 2011 The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has entered into a library partnership agreement with the CILEA Interuniversity Consortium of Italy. The member libraries supporting the CLOCKSS Archive include Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, University of Milan, University of Bergamo, University of Verona, Instituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Social (LUISS), and Istituto Universitario Europeo of Fiesole (IUE). The goal of the partnership is to have CILEA leading the effort to secure participation in CLOCKSS by regional libraries. “CILEA, which always works for the issues of preservation of electronic content, believes that CLOCKSS represents an important initiative to support and spread within librarianship, as is consistent with our institutional mission and the services that we have long offered to our users directly. CILEA has therefore accepted the invitation to support and spread the project throughout the country of Italy,” states Eleonora Rodi, TITLE of CILEA. CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS welcomes the partnership with CILEA of Italy. I look forward to working with Director Luigi Ballardini and his staff on increasing the library participation in this important academic area of the world. Working with global libraries to develop the support network is fundamental to the sustainability of CLOCKSS's digital preservation efforts.” About CILEA: CILEA Interuniversity Consortium of Italy is a consortium of universities in Italy, established in 1974. The Italian Ministry of Universities and Research also belongs to the Consortium. CILEA is among the most advanced supercomputing centres in Europe. According to its statute, CILEA has many different purposes. Among them is the promotion of the use of the most advanced computing systems in scientific and technological research, both public and private. It provides high-performance computing systems to the national research. It promotes the technological transfer in the field of information and communication technology. It creates, maintains, and manages information systems for the national education and research system. All CILEA’s services are offered to universities, public agencies, and private companies. About CLOCKSS: The CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) 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 lis-e-resources is a UKSG list - http://www.uksg.org/serials UKSG groups also available on Facebook and LinkedIn