Medknow Publications Preserves with the CLOCKSS Archive

August 31 2011

The CLOCKSS Archives is pleased to announce that it has partnered with
Medknow Publications to preserve their e-journals in CLOCKSS's
geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant
archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the
world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, Medknow Publications has committed
to the preservation of their e-journals. This action provides for
content to be freely available to everyone after a "trigger event" and
ensures an author's work will be maximally accessible and useful over
time.

“As a publisher committed to have barrier free access to information,
Medknow is pleased to be a part of the CLOCKSS Archive. With long term
availability of our content we are ensuring that we break even the
time-barrier for access to our content. This is particularly useful
for the smaller journals and journals from the developing countries
which usually face continuity problem due to lack of finances. Medknow
together with the CLOCKSS Archive will ensure that what is published
today is available for the scholars of tomorrow.” said Dr Sahu, CEO of
Medknow.

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "The CLOCKSS Archive
welcomes Medknow Publications’s e-journals into the community's
archive.  As a large open-access publisher, Medknow has ensured that
their publications will be available to everyone now and for years to
come.  The variety and the global nature of Medknow’s journals are
very important additions to the preservation of worldwide academic
content. The CLOCKSS Archive has achieved a rare consensus among
libraries and publishers, and we are grateful, as Medknow Publications
joins the CLOCKSS Archive, for its generous willingness to preserve
its e-journals in a way that secures them for the long-term good of
scholars worldwide."

About Medknow Publications and Media Pvt Ltd:
Medknow Publications is a publisher for peer-reviewed,
online/print+online journals in the area of STM. Medknow, publishing
160+ journals from 16 countries, is the largest open-access publisher
publishing on the behalf of learned societies and associations.
Medknow pioneers in the 'fee-less-free' model of open-access
publishing and provides immediate free access to the electronic
editions of the journals, the majority of which do not charge the
author or author's institution for submission, processing, or
publication of the articles.
http://www.medknow.com

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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