AIP Partners with CLOCKSS to Digitally Archive All AIP's Electronically-Published Material
June 15, 2009
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced it will preserve its award-winning publications in the CLOCKSS digital archive of scholarly research content. AIP will place over 150,000 articles in the archive, including back-file materials dating back to 1999.
CLOCKSS is a community-governed, not-for-profit collaboration between librarians and publishers. The CLOCKSS archive ensures the long-term availability of scholarly digital content. With CLOCKSS, content is housed and preserved at major research libraries around the world. When a title is no longer available from any publisher, and with the approval of the CLOCKSS Board of Directors, that title is copied from the archive and made freely available to everyone with a Web browser. The Board is composed equally of publishers and libraries. Additionally, CLOCKSS supporters appoint one representative to serve on the CLOCKSS Advisory Council.
"AIP has long been committed to digital archiving, formulating our first policy statement on the subject more than 10 years ago," said Tim Ingoldsby, AIP's Director of Strategic Initiatives and Publisher Relations. "In the intervening years, we've been gratified when other publishers have taken our framework as a model when fashioning their own archiving policy."
“We are pleased AIP has joined the CLOCKSS community. By depositing its vital content into the CLOCKSS archive, AIP is ensuring its materials will be available for future scholars," notes CLOCKSS Co-Chair and Berkeley Electronic Press' CEO, Gordon Tibbitts. "And through its participation on the Advisory Council, AIP is ensuring that its authors' and readers' interests are represented as CLOCKSS works to build a state-of-the-art archive.”
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Taking Charge: Preserving Our Digital Heritage, Part II
April 2009
Micah Altman, James A. Jacobs, Richard Pearce-Moses, Victoria Reich, Bernie Reilly, Nan Rubin, Julie Sweetkind-Singer and others are the featured authors in the second installment of Against the Grain's two-part series on trends in Digital Preservation.
Free Online Access to Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Available through CLOCKSS
April 27, 2009
Oxford Journals announced today that the journal Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, which has been discontinued, will be accessible through CLOCKSS.
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention ceased publication at the end of 2008. Archival content from volume 1, issue 1 (2001) to volume 8, issue 4 (2008) will be removed from the Oxford Journals online platform at the end of May 2009. Only CLOCKSS, one of OUP's preservation partners, will provide free access to the title and take responsibility for its ongoing long-term preservation.
Fiona Kearney, Director for UK Business Development & Rights for Oxford University Press, commented: "We are proud to participate in these preservation initiatives so that readers of this journal can continue to access archival content even after it has ceased publication and to ensure the continuity of the electronic scholarly record."
"Oxford University Press, along with the other founding members of CLOCKSS, agreed early on to make triggered content in CLOCKSS available to the world for free," explained Gordon Tibbitts, Co-Chair of the CLOCKSS board. "That policy, along with CLOCKSS' low operating costs, and its community-based leadership, sets CLOCKSS apart. In these challenging economic times CLOCKSS enables libraries of all sizes to benefit from its digital preservation efforts."
Taking Charge: Preserving Our Digital Heritage, Part I
March 2009
Advocates and leaders in Digital Preservation including Peter Burnhill, Daniel Cornwall, Vic Elliott, Martin Halbert, James R. Jacobs, Heather Ruland Staines, Katherine Skinner, Aaron Trehub, and Glen Worthey write about their current projects in the February 2009 issue of Against the Grain.
Momentum Grows for Long-term Preservation Strategy of Digital Content
January 27, 2009
Support for the community-governed archive cooperative, CLOCKSS, continues to grow as they announce the addition of the University of Alberta as its newest governing library member. The University of Alberta Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and has the second largest academic and research collection in Canada. The CLOCKSS initiative was created in response to the growing concern that digital content purchased by libraries may not always be available due to retirement of an electronic journal or catastrophic events. CLOCKSS addresses this problem by creating a secure, multi-site archive of web-published content that can be tapped into as necessary to provide ongoing access to researchers worldwide for free. "We are proud to welcome the University of Alberta as our first Canadian partner," says Gordon Tibbitts, CEO of bepress and Co-Chair of the CLOCKSS Board of Directors. "Adding another global partner to the network further solidifies CLOCKSS leadership in providing a cost-sensitive and effective long-term archiving solution that services the entire scholarly community."
From The New York Times article, "A Tool to Verify Digital Records, Even as Technology Shifts"
January 26, 2009
"To that end, another computer scientist, Brewster Kahle, founded the Internet Archive in 1996 in an effort to preserve a complete record of the World Wide Web and other digital documents. Similarly, in 2000 librarians at Stanford University created LOCKSS, or Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe, to preserve journals in the digital age, by spreading digital copies of documents through an international community of libraries via the Internet."
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Vicky Reich Kicks off NISO's Webinar Series
January 9, 2009
NISO (National Information Standards Organization) presents its 2009 webinar series, beginning on January 14, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EST, with Digital Preservation: Current Efforts.
Vicky's talk, "CLOCKSS, A Global Archive: Libraries and Publishers Preserving the Past for the Future," will cover why the academic publishing and research communities have embraced CLOCKSS as a long-term preservation solution.
Springer helps launch CLOCKSS archive
December 3, 2008
Springer Science+Business Media, publisher of one of the world’s most comprehensive online collections of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works, announces a partnership with the community-governed archive cooperative CLOCKSS to preserve Springer content in the CLOCKSS global archive. Springer publishes over 1,700 journals and more than 5,500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook collection worldwide. Springer is a founding member of CLOCKSS.
The CLOCKSS archive allows research libraries and scholarly publishers, who launched CLOCKSS as a pilot program, to preserve and store its electronic content. Once ingested, the e-content is kept safe and secure in a dark archive until it is triggered and the CLOCKSS Board determines that the content should be copied from the archive and made freely available to all, regardless of prior subscription. Due to the success of the pilot program, the founding members unanimously agreed to incorporate and invite others to participate in CLOCKSS.
From Prototype to Production
June 26, 2008
The founding members of the CLOCKSS pilot program are pleased to announce that CLOCKSS will advance to active operations in mid-2008. Two years ago, scholarly publishers and research libraries, challenged by the responsibility to preserve the digital assets of the community, joined forces to build a prototype for a global dark archive. Their unique collaboration focused on creating an archive "cooperative" with publishers and libraries running the archive together. The prototype was successfully built and tested and, during the pilot period, the need for a robust governing structure was addressed.
Vicky Reich honored with the 2008 Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award
February 22, 2008
The CLOCKSS Initiative is proud to announce that Vicky Reich is the recipient of the 2008 Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award in recognition of her distinguished and ongoing contributions to the field of digital preservation. Vicky's leadership role in the development and adoption of digital preservation solutions like LOCKSS and CLOCKSS ensures the accessibility of serial publications and other digital content for future generations.
CLOCKSS Works
January 30, 2008
Researchers increasingly access journal articles online, but the real possibility exists that, due to natural disaster or human/computing failure, digital content might not always be available. Libraries and publishers have joined forces in an initiative called CLOCKSS*, providing leadership and the supporting technology, to ensure reliable, long-term access to scholarly e-content.
The moment has arrived to see how CLOCKSS works.
Public Access to Journal, Graft, from CLOCKSS
January 29, 2008
The University of Edinburgh's EDINA data centre and Stanford University make discontinued SAGE journal, Graft, available to the world for free.
How CLOCKSS Works: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Content
December 18, 2007
The CLOCKSS initiative is a partnership of libraries and publishers committed to ensuring long-term access to scholarly work in digital format. As more and more content moves online, there is growing concern that this digital content may not always be available. CLOCKSS addresses this problem by creating a secure, multi-sited archive of web-published content that can be tapped into as necessary to provide ongoing access to researchers worldwide for free.
There are many ways digital content may become unavailable, including when a publisher chooses to retire a journal. SAGE Publications, a CLOCKSS partner, recently announced that it would discontinue online access to its journal, Graft: Organ and Cell Transplantation. This represents an opportunity to demonstrate how CLOCKSS responds to a "trigger event."
