CLOCKSS Welcomes Two New Publishers: Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Society
November 9, 2009
CLOCKSS is pleased to announce that two new society publishers have recently joined the CLOCKSS archive. The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society have signed agreements this fall to join CLOCKSS and preserve their materials in the CLOCKSS network of geographically and geopolitically distributed archive nodes. CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is a community-governed, not-for-profit archive founded by librarians and publishers to ensure the long-term availability of scholarly digital content.
As part of joining CLOCKSS, the two societies agree to release their archived content to the world for free if a time comes when it is no longer available from any publisher ("trigger event"). “The Royal Society of Chemistry is pleased to be involved with the CLOCKSS archiving program. We appreciate the importance of archiving articles from important scholarly journals for future generations of researchers and see CLOCKSS as a major initiative within this area,” said James Milne, the Editorial Director of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society will also each appoint representatives to the CLOCKSS board. The board is made up of world-leading publishers and libraries who work together to govern the archive and set strategies and policies, such as how to extend CLOCKSS to smaller scholarly publishers and those in the developing world. Stuart Taylor, Head of Publishing at Royal Society Publishing, commented that, “In an increasingly digital age in which the use of print journals is declining rapidly, the question of the long term security of digital content is a critical one. We are pleased to be joining CLOCKSS which offers a well thought-out and organised solution for scholars, publishers and librarians.”
“We are pleased to welcome these new societies to the CLOCKSS community. The commitment is growing among publishers to preserve their content in a way that keeps it in the hands of scholars,” said CLOCKSS Co-Chair Gordon Tibbitts. “The CLOCKSS model really appeals to scholarly societies and their members, who want to make sure their materials remain as useful and available as possible over the very long term.”
About RSC Publishing. RSC Publishing is a not-for-profit publisher wholly owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. One of the largest and most dynamic publishers of chemical science information in the world, RSC's publishing activity dates back to 1841 and features a wide range of journals, magazines, databases and books. http://www.rsc.org/publishing
About Royal Society Publishing. Royal Society Publishing is the publishing division of the Royal Society. The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660. http://royalsocietypublishing.org
The CLOCKSS Archive and the ACM Partner To Preserve Digital Library of Computing Resources
November 6, 2009
The CLOCKSS archive is pleased to announce it’s newest publishing partner, the ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery), www.acm.org. By joining CLOCKSS archive community ACM ensures their digital collections are preserved in a trusted, reliable archive and that this important scholarly content will remain accessible to the world’s future scholars, researchers, and students.
The CLOCKSS archive is governed by the participating publishers and libraries. The distributed digital preservation approach uses Archive Nodes, which are housed at libraries selected to be the custodians of the archived content, and at institutions that have existed for decades, if not centuries. Archive nodes are located in geographically, politically, and geologically disparate locations in North America, Europe, and Asia., and supports the library's role in society as a "custodian of culture."
“Society publishers increasingly see the value of working with libraries to ensure that their materials remain as useful and available as possible over the very long term,” said Gordon Tibbits, CLOCKSS Co-Chair. “We are delighted to welcome ACM as the newest member of CLOCKSS, joining other world leading publishers and librarians who together set the strategy for long-term archiving in the best interest of the entire scholarly community.”
The ACM Digital Library comprises an online collection of more than two million pages of full-text articles from ACM publications as well as one of the most comprehensive bibliographic databases in the computing field. The ACM DL includes an index of more than 7 million references, 1.25 million citations, and over 500,000 journal articles. ACM’s full-text database consists of many of the highest impact titles in the computing field dating back to 1954, and includes content from ACM’s wide range of journals, magazines, conference proceedings, ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) newsletters, technical reports, and multimedia files.
CLOCKSS, or Controlled LOCKSS (for Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), runs on LOCKSS technology, which received an ACM Research Award in 2004.
CLOCKSS and CrossRef Collaboration Makes it Easier to Find Discontinued Journal Articles
September 10, 2009
CLOCKSS and CrossRef have implemented the means to track articles from discontinued journals using the CrossRef DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) originally assigned to the articles. When a published journal or other content is no longer available from a publisher, an archive that stores that content experiences a “trigger event.” CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) experienced its first trigger events with the SAGE Publications' journals Auto/Biography and Graft and Oxford University Press' Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention. These events led to the discovery that CrossRef would need to accommodate multiple DOI resolution, as the affected titles were stored in multiple archives. All three titles are now available for free at http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Triggered_Content.
“Two important tenets of CrossRef’s mission are persistence and cooperation,” said Ed Pentz, Executive Director of CrossRef. “Making sure that the CrossRef DOIs that have been assigned to content that has moved from a publisher journal platform to an archive still resolve to the articles is an important part of that persistence. Persistence is not only achieved through technology but by cooperation: CrossRef, publishers, journal hosting services, and the archiving organizations have all worked together to ensure continued access to the scholarly record. These journals are particularly strong examples of the system in action as there are multiple archives available to guarantee ongoing access.”
“The CLOCKSS Archive, the community-governed archiving initiative with broad support from publishers large and small, CrossRef, and the library community, has made all three journals openly available from two geographically separate sites,” notes Gordon Tibbitts, Co-Chair CLOCKSS Board of Directors. CLOCKSS truly serves the world's scholars by ensuring content no longer available from any publisher is available to everyone for free.”
The following are live examples of CrossRef DOIs from each of the archived journals:
Auto/Biography: http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0967550706ab044oa
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brief-treatment/mhg012
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."
Read the entire New York Times article here .
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. more here
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."
- How CLOCKSS Works: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Content, December 18, 2007
- 2007 ALA ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Award, February 22, 2007 more here
- Money granted for digital preservation, June 14, 2006
- Library of Congress Digital Preservation Award, June 7, 2006
- Archiving should be done by librarians and archivists, period, April 04, 2006
