BioMed Central joins CLOCKSS to archive its open access articles
January 14, 2010 - CLOCKSS is pleased to announce that it has
partnered with BioMed Central, the world's largest open access
publisher, to preserve over 60,000 articles in CLOCKSS's
geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant
archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the
world.
A non-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. By archiving with CLOCKSS,
BioMed Central ensures that its open access articles remain open
access forever. If necessary, CLOCKSS will make this content
available, under a creative commons license, for free to all scholars
around the world.
Bev Acreman, Commercial Director for BioMed Central, notes "Because
BioMed Central is committed to the preservation and availability of
scholarly content through its leading open access publishing program,
it is especially pleased to partner with CLOCKSS, an archive that
shares this same commitment to open access."
CLOCKSS Co-Chair and Executive Director Gordon Tibbitts adds, "CLOCKSS
has achieved a rare consensus among libraries and publishers to make
orphaned content open access. We share BioMed Central's commitment to
open access, and welcome the opportunity to help them maintain this
commitment for their journals into the very long term."
About BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher
which has pioneered the open access publishing model. All
peer-reviewed research articles published by BioMed Central are made
immediately and freely accessible online, and are licensed to allow
redistribution and reuse. BioMed Central is part of Springer
Science+Business Media, a leading global publisher in the STM sector.
http://www.biomedcentral.com
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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