CILEA Interuniversity Consortium of Italy Partners with the CLOCKSS Archive

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 Sociali (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 to the issues of preservation of electronic content, believes that CLOCKSS represents an important initiative to support and spread within librarianship, as 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, Project Manager 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.

East View Information Services Preserves with the CLOCKSS Archive

June 24, 2011

The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with East View Information Services to preserve their e-journals and e-books 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, East View Information Services has committed to the preservation of their e-journals and e-Books. 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.

"East View recognizes that as more institutions turn to online content in addition to or in place of print, they are looking for assurances of permanent access," said Kent D. Lee, founder and CEO. "East View offers online solutions for most print subscriptions, including complete digital retrospectives of publications such as Pravda and Izvestiia. East View also offers custom conversion services for libraries, allowing them to access their own newspaper collections online via our Universal DatabaseT platform. We recognize that librarians build collections today but must ensure the future availability of today's intellectual, cultural and historical content. East View's decision to partner with CLOCKSS is natural, ensuring that libraries have a true preservation solution and permanent access to digital collections."

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS welcomes East View Information Services's e-journals and e-books into the community's archive. East View represents a very diverse set of content that includes Russian, Arabic, and Chinese language materials. This will encourage other non-English language publishers to seriously consider digitally preserving their content with us. CLOCKSS has achieved a rare consensus among libraries and publishers, and we are grateful as East View Information Services joins the CLOCKSS Archive for its generous willingness to preserve its e-journals and e-books in a way that secures them for the long-term good of scholars worldwide."

About East View Information Services: East View Information Services is a leading provider of native and translated foreign language, and information products and services, including Russian, Chinese, and Arabic databases, print periodicals, books, and microforms. The company serves all geographies and many market segments, including academic institutions, government organizations, corporations, public and federal libraries, and law firms. To learn more about our customers and our products, visit East View http://www.eastview.com

Biologic Institute Preserves with the CLOCKSS Archive

June 23, 2011

The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Biologic Institute to preserve their e-content 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, Biologic Institute has committed to the preservation of their e-content. 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.

According to Biologic Institute Director Douglas Axe, “We are strongly supportive of the transition from old-style publishing, where the dissemination of scholarly work was in the hands of a few large publishers, to the new model, where the scholars themselves can set up fully functional peer-reviewed journals. One of the challenges that had to be overcome for this to be possible was the perception that small publishers, being less well established than large ones, were less able to guarantee the permanence of what they publish. CLOCKSS provides the critically important solution to this by offering permanent availability of electronic content at a cost that even small non-profit publishers can afford.”

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS welcomes Biologic Institute’s e-content into the community's archive. CLOCKSS has achieved a rare consensus among libraries and publishers, and we are grateful as Biologic Institute joins the CLOCKSS Archive for its generous willingness to preserve its e-content in a way that secures it for the long-term good of scholars worldwide."

About Biologic Institute: Biologic Institute is a nonprofit research organization founded in 2005 for the purpose of developing and testing the scientific case for intelligent design in biology and exploring its scientific implications. Beginning in 2010, it has published BIO-Complexity, an open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal. http://biologicinstitute.org http://bio-complexity.org

The Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) of Hong Kong Partners with the CLOCKSS Archive

June 14, 2011

The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has entered into a library partnership agreement with the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) of Hong Kong. The member libraries include The Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Lingnan University, and The University of Hong Kong. The goal of the partnership is to have JULAC leading the effort to secure participation in CLOCKSS by regional libraries.

JULAC Chair, Professor Steve Ching said “JULAC is very pleased to be participating in the CLOCKSS initiative. The proposal to join CLOCKSS has been endorsed by all eight of Hong Kong’s government funded academic libraries which comprise the JULAC membership. JULAC supports the CLOCKSS vision to provide free access for the community to orphaned and abandoned electronic content that is no longer available from any publisher, as this is consistent with the JULAC strategy for the preservation of print and digital assets for future generations of scholars in Hong Kong.”

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS welcomes the partnership with JULAC of Hong Kong. I look forward to working with JULAC on increasing the library participation in this important, and rapidly developing, 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 JULAC: The Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) was established in 1967 by the Heads of University Committee (HUCOM). It is a forum to discuss, coordinate, and collaborate on library information resources and services among the libraries of the eight tertiary education institutions funded by the University Grants Committee (UGC) of the Hong Kong SAR Government. http://www.julac.org/

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

The Pennsylvania State University Press Preserves with the CLOCKSS Archive

June 13, 2011

CLOCKSS is pleased to announce that it has partnered with The Pennsylvania State University Press to preserve their e-journals and e-books 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, Penn State University Press has committed to the preservation of their e-journals and e-Books. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a "trigger event" and ensures that an author's work will be maximally accessible and useful over time.

"The Pennsylvania State University Press takes great pride in partnering with CLOCKSS on behalf of our many Societies, editors, authors, and researchers worldwide. Respected by institutions, libraries, and scholars worldwide, CLOCKSS tackles the varied and ever-changing challenges of today’s scholarly communication, and assists Penn State University Press in meeting its institutional and strategic objectives and in realizing its commitment to preserve and archive digital scholarly research." - Patrick H. Alexander, Director, The Pennsylvania State University Press

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "We are excited to expand our coverage of university press content as CLOCKSS welcomes Penn State University Press’s e-journals and e-books into the community's archive. We have worked to reduce the fees for the presses when their library is also a supporter. CLOCKSS has achieved a rare consensus among libraries and publishers, and we are grateful as Penn State University Press joins the CLOCKSS Archive for its generous willingness to preserve its e-journals and e-books in a way that secures them for the long-term good of scholars worldwide."

About Penn State University Press: The publishing arm of the Pennsylvania State University and a division of the Penn State University Libraries and Scholarly Communications, Penn State University Press is dedicated to serving the University community, the citizens of Pennsylvania, and scholars worldwide by publishing books and journals of the highest quality. The Press promotes the advance of scholarship by disseminating knowledge—new information, interpretations, methods of analysis—with an emphasis on core fields of the humanities and social sciences. http://www.psupress.org

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

Geological Society of America Preserves with the CLOCKSS Archive

June 3, 2011

The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with the Geological Society of America (GSA) to preserve their e-journals and e-books 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, GSA has ensured the preservation and future availability of their e-journals and e-books. 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.

“The Geological Society of America began publishing in 1890. Today, earth science research continues to play an important role in our society, weighing heavily on key issues like energy, environmental concerns, and our understanding of earthquakes and volcanoes. We are pleased to work with a partner like CLOCKSS to guarantee that this important research will be available well into the future,” said Jon Olsen, senior director of publications at the Geological Society of America.

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS welcomes the Geological Society of America’s journals and e-books into the community's archive. Their content is of significant importance to all, as our awareness of our planet and its limitations becomes an everyday topic. CLOCKSS has achieved a rare consensus among libraries and publishers, and we are grateful to the Geological Society of America for its generous willingness to preserve its journals and e-books in a way that secures them for the long-term good of scholars worldwide."

About GSA: Established in 1888, the Geological Society of America provides access to elements that are essential to the professional growth of earth scientists at all levels of expertise and from all sectors: academic, government, business, and industry.

The Geological Society of America's growing membership unites thousands of earth scientists from every corner of the globe in a common purpose to study the mysteries of our planet and share scientific findings. http://www.geosociety.org

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

QScience.com from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals preserves journals with the CLOCKSS Archive.

June 2, 2011

QScience.com from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals preserves journals with the CLOCKSS Archive.

The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) is preserving their 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, Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals ensures that its open access articles remain open access forever. If necessary, CLOCKSS will make this content available, under a Creative Commons license, at no cost to all scholars around the world.

Arend Küster, Managing Director of Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals, said “Archiving and securing the permanent availability of eJournals is of paramount importance. We at Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals are pleased to participate in and support this initiative, while working in conjunction with the international publishing community. It is key to our mission in establishing QScience.com as a leading journals platform from the region, and we want to establish preservation and archiving into our workflow early on.”

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS welcomes Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals and the QScience.com platform. Working with such publishers in an online format is exciting. We are pleased to be a partner with the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals in their new venture.”

About Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals is the publisher of online journals at their recently launched site QScience.com, an innovative and collaborative peer-reviewed online publishing platform from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ). It offers a fast and transparent scholarly publishing process that is centered on the author, bringing their research to a global audience. QScience.com is the online home of a growing range of peer-reviewed open-access journals and also provides a central resource for databases and repositories. Our aim is to reflect the burgeoning research environment of Qatar to the wider world and to foster scientific and scholarly communication in the 21st century. http://www.qscience.com

About the CLOCKSS Archive - 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

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) joins the CLOCKSS Archive

February 28, 2011

CLOCKSS is pleased to announce that it has partnered with the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) to preserve their journals in CLOCKSS’s geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world.

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.

By archiving with CLOCKSS, ASPET has committed to CLOCKSS for preservation of its society’s journals. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a “trigger event” and ensures that an author’s work will be maximally accessible and useful over time.

ASPET Journals Director Rich Dodenhoff notes that ASPET began publishing in 1909, within six months of being organized. “Participation in CLOCKSS assures that the Society’s rich archive of pharmacological knowledge will be preserved so that researchers can continue to build upon it. This is as much a commitment to the future as to the past. ASPET is glad to participate in CLOCKSS.”

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS welcomes ASPET's journals into the community's archive. CLOCKSS has achieved a rare consensus among libraries and publishers, and we are grateful to ASPET for its generous willingness to preserve its journals in a way that secures them for the long-term good of scholars worldwide.”

About ASPET: Founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1908, the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics was established to further the growth of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics and to facilitate personal intercourse among investigators in these branches of science. Today, ASPET is the premier American scientific society for pharmacologists and publishes five high-impact peer-reviewed journals (Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Pharmacological Reviews, Molecular Pharmacology, Drug Metabolism and Disposition, and Molecular Interventions). The Society provides a variety of other important services to its more than 4,400 members worldwide, who are involved in basic and applied research, teaching, and administration. http://www.aspet.org

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

Springer Partners With CLOCKSS For Its First E-book Agreement

February 1, 2011

CLOCKSS is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Springer Science+Business Media to preserve over 32,000 e-books in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world.

A not-for-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.

"All eBooks available in our eBook packages will be preserved in the CLOCKSS archive," notes Heather Ruland Staines, Senior Manager eOperations, who oversees Springer's participation in digital preservation initiatives. "Because our eBook collections are offered in an ownership model, we feel a particular responsibility to ensuring their availability in perpetuity."

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS welcomes Springer Science+Business Media e-books into the community's archive as our first e-book collection."

Springer Science+Business Media is a leading global scientific publisher, publishing around 2,000 journals and more than 6,500 new books a year. It has the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide, and is the largest business-to-business publisher in the German language.

CLOCKSS Appoints New Executive Director

January 24, 2011

The CLOCKSS Archive (http://www.clockss.org) is pleased to announce the appointment of Randy S. Kiefer as their new Executive Director. Randy is the Principal Consultant in the Kiefer Strategy Group, LLC, which handles business development efforts for publishers like INFORMS, the American Accounting Association, the Military Operations Research Society, and others. From 1999 to May of 2010, Randy served in various roles at INFORMS. For his last three years, he was the Director of Subscription, Membership, and Technical Services at INFORMS, and his primary activity was developing the global library market for INFORMS' twelve journals.

Randy is a board member of COIN-OR (http://www.coin-or.org) , an organization dedicated to open-source software for the operations research community. and is on the board of two charitable organizations in the Baltimore area. Randy has been active in software development since 1985.

"I am delighted to welcome Randy as the new CLOCKSS Archive Executive Director. His deep experience working with publishers and libraries will ensure that the archive continues to serve our community's needs", said Victoria Reich, Director LOCKSS Program.

Gordon Tibbitts, outgoing CLOCKSS executive director and President Atypon Systems declares, "The CLOCKSS Archive, now one year old is well placed for its' next phase of growth. The Board of Directors is very pleased to have Randy on board as the Archive's first full time Executive Director."

CLOCKSS is a global nonprofit, community-governed archive that preserves digital scholarly materials for the very long term through a geo-physical and geo-political distributed network of archive nodes.

Announcing New Preservation Program for Digital Law Reviews

December 1, 2010

The CLOCKSS Archive, Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA) and Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) are pleased to announce that they have partnered to create the Law Review Preservation Program: the first comprehensive long-term archiving solution for law reviews published online.

With funding and support from LIPA, law reviews published on bepress’s Digital Commons platform can be automatically archived in CLOCKSS, an international dark archive for long-term preservation. Law reviews will join thousands of journals in CLOCKSS, from publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, and Nature, as well as all Berkeley Electronic Press journals. The first law schools to join the program are American University, archiving American University International Law Review, The Modern American, and Sustainable Development Law and Policy, and Boston College, archiving Boston College Law Review.

Margaret Maes, Executive Director of LIPA, said “We are pleased to support the preservation of electronic law review content in a dark archive through this partnership with bepress and CLOCKSS. This is another step in our efforts to find long-term solutions to the problem of digital preservation of legal information, and we hope that Digital Commons subscribers will take advantage of the program by making their law reviews available through the Digital Commons.”

Content in CLOCKSS is preserved with award-winning LOCKSS technology. In the event that a law review is no longer available from any university or publisher, it will be triggered from CLOCKSS under an open-access Creative Commons license, guaranteeing that law review articles will remain in the public domain forever. The CLOCKSS archive is distributed across twelve geographically and geopolitically diverse archive nodes, located at major libraries across North America, Europe, and Asia, and is governed by the community of participating libraries and publishers.

Berkeley Electronic Press CEO and President Jean-Gabriel Bankier said, “We feel strongly that law reviews deserve the same state-of-the-art preservation as all digital publications, and are very pleased to partner with LIPA and CLOCKSS on a program that brings preservation within the reach of all law reviews.”

About LIPA - The Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA) is a non-profit consortium of academic, federal, state and public law libraries working on projects to preserve print and electronic legal information. It provides the opportunity for libraries to work collaboratively on preservation projects at lower cost and to take advantage of the partnerships created by the organization. http://www.aallnet.org/committee/lipa

About Berkeley Electronic Press - Founded by professors in 1999, Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) publishes peer-reviewed electronic journals and develops software for the next generation of scholarly publishing. The bepress journals collection, ResearchNow, redefines what scholarly journals can do today, with fast and high quality peer review at sustainable prices. The bepress open-access institutional repository platform, Digital Commons, is the world's leading hosted IR, featuring an innovative suite of publishing and software services that empowers scholarly communities to showcase and share their works for maximum impact. http://www.bepress.com

Japanese Library Consortia Join CLOCKSS

October 28, 2010

CLOCKSS is very pleased to announce that the two major academic library groups in Japan have joined the CLOCKSS archive: the Japanese Association of National University Libraries (JANUL) and the Private and Public University Libraries Consortia (PULC). JANUL consists of 92 libraries, while roughly 360 libraries are part of PULC. The National Institute of Informatics in Japan (NII), which is a CLOCKSS founding library and archive node, has been instrumental in bringing about this partnership and expanding the support for CLOCKSS to all academic libraries in Japan.

Jun Adachi, Professor and Director, Cyber Science Infrastructure Development Department of NII, and CLOCKSS Board of Director, says “We believe it is crucial for libraries located in the Asia Pacific region, and particularly Japan, to take an active role in preservation and have a voice in policies that affect us all. CLOCKSS gives us an opportunity to participate in this important international endeavor. Since joining the archive node in February 2010, NII has collaborated with CLOCKSS by leading an effort to facilitate the participation of Japanese libraries. It is encouraging that we have got support this time from university libraries in Japan as a whole.”

Koichi Ojiro of JANUL consortium says “As scholarly publications on the web are becoming increasingly important for research and education in academic institutions, it is a real challenge for librarians to ensure their long term survival. I am very pleased to announce JANUL's commitment to preserving digital scholarly assets by participating in CLOCKSS.”

Makoto Nakamoto of Waseda University Library shares this enthusiasm, saying, “It is a pleasure to join CLOCKSS and join our voices with this organization. CLOCKSS reinforces our values by providing free access to content that is no longer available from any publisher, and making sure that scholarly content will always remain in the hands of libraries worldwide.”

CLOCKSS Executive Director Gordon Tibbitts is “honored to partner with Japan and count JANUL and PULC among the library groups that support CLOCKSS. We believe that the best plan for long term preservation is diversification, and this partnership will greatly benefit CLOCKSS and the entire scholarly community.”

About National Institute of Informatics in Japan (NII) - Founded in 2000, NII is Japan’s only general academic research institution with the goal of advancing integrated research and development in information fields. Additionally, NII strives to facilitate the advancement of cyber science infrastructure. In 2004 NII became a member of the Research Organization of Information and Systems. http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/

About JANUL - Japan Association of National University Libraries (JANUL) is a membership organization comprising libraries of national universities in Japan, the University of the Air Library, library facilities of four inter-university research institutes, totaling 92 libraries and library facilities. JANUL aims at supporting the advancement of library function through close coordination and cooperation among the members, promoting inter-library use of scholarly information resources extensively, and contributing development of infrastructures for scholarly information distribution in order to help universities achieve their missions. http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/anul/index-e.html

About PULC - The Private and Public University Libraries Consortium (PULC) is a membership organization of public and private university libraries in Japan. Currently, a total of more than 360 private and public universities participate in the consortium.

CLOCKSS adds its 12th archive node at Humboldt University, Berlin

September 29, 2010

CLOCKSS is very pleased to announce that it has added a twelfth library to its network of worldwide distributed archive nodes.

The new node is hosted at Humboldt University, in Berlin, Germany. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has provided funding for the University to represent Germany in this important international initiative.

Humboldt University joins the CLOCKSS board, and will work alongside all participating publishers and libraries to decide on policies and best practices for the archive. At Humboldt, both the Computer and Media Service and the Berlin School for Library and Information Science will provide the knowledge, community and technical support necessary and look forward to be able to contribute to long-term preservation of scholarly publications in a larger scale.

Michael Seadle, Director of the Berlin School of Library and Information Sciences at Humboldt University, said “At Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, we regard CLOCKSS as a key component of the infrastructure for preserving scholarly content for future centuries and we are pleased to play a role in the CLOCKSS network on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany.”

The node at Humboldt University will store a complete version of the CLOCKSS archive content and will use award-winning open-source LOCKSS technology to automatically and continually check with the other nodes, audit itself, and repair any differences. If content in the archive becomes no longer available from any publisher (“trigger” event), CLOCKSS will release the content and make it available for free to the entire world.

Gordon Tibbitts, Executive Director of CLOCKSS, said “We are grateful to Humboldt University for taking on this important responsibility. Joining forces with Humboldt University as our twelfth archive node is a major step for the CLOCKSS effort to protect the world’s scholarship and keep it in the hands of scholars.”

The twelve CLOCKSS archive nodes are hosted at: Australian National University Humboldt University Indiana University National Institute of Informatics, Japan OCLC Online Computer Library Center Rice University Stanford University Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore University of Alberta University of Edinburgh University of Hong Kong University of Virginia

About Humboldt University Founded in 1810 according to the concept which Wilhelm von Humboldt had put forward, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin was the "mother of all modern universities". It lives up to its history as a reform-orientated institution by planting innovative ideas into study, research and structure. http://www.hu-berlin.de/

CLOCKSS adds its 11th archive node in Italy

July 25, 2010

July 26, 2010, Stanford, CA – CLOCKSS is very pleased to announce that it has added an eleventh archive node to its network of worldwide, redundant, and distributed archive nodes.

The new node is hosted at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, in Milan, Italy. The node will store a complete version of the CLOCKSS archive content. Like all CLOCKSS nodes, it uses award-winning open-source LOCKSS technology to automatically and continually check with the other nodes, audit itself, and repair any differences. If content in the archive becomes no longer available from any publisher (“trigger” event), CLOCKSS will release the content and make it available for free to the entire world.

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore also joins the CLOCKSS board, and will work alongside all participating publishers and libraries to decide on policies and best practices for the archive.

As Ellis Sada, Library Director at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, puts it, “The new CLOCKSS archive node at our university represents a way for all Italian academic and research libraries to join an international community and be actively involved in the process of long-term archiving.”

The archive node at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore brings the CLOCKSS network of archive nodes to a total of eleven (see list below). CLOCKSS node locations are selected to be geographically and geopolitically diverse, and housed at major libraries with many centuries of experience and continuity protecting the world’s scholarship.

Gordon Tibbitts, CLOCKSS Executive Director, said “We are grateful to the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore for taking on this leadership role. At CLOCKSS, we believe that the best plan for very long term preservation is diversity, and putting our future in the hands of the university libraries who have preserved our scholarly heritage for centuries.”

The eleven CLOCKSS archive nodes are hosted at: Australian National University, Indiana University, National Institute of Informatics, Japan, OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Rice University, Stanford University, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, University of Alberta, University of Edinburgh, University of Hong Kong, University of Virginia

About Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. The Università Cattolica is an academic community designed to contribute to the development of specified studies, scientific research, and the preparation of young adults for work and service in research, teaching, and work in public and private professional fields. The Università Cattolica approaches this goal through a superior academic education, joined with the basic principles of Christianity. http://www3.unicatt.it

Announcing New Libraries in CLOCKSS, The CLOCKSS Community-Governed Archive Grows Fast

June 23, 2010

The CLOCKSS community of libraries has grown rapidly in the first half of 2010, with 21 new libraries supporting the archive already this year. The libraries to join in the past six months include Oxford University, University of Utah, Vassar College, University of British Columbia, and the European University Institute, as well as members of the COPPUL consortium in Canada and the VIVA consortium in Virginia.

Since it was incorporated in October 2009, CLOCKSS has expanded its community to 60 libraries worldwide, with eleven archive nodes at major libraries in North America, Europe, and Asia.

CLOCKSS is a dark archive governed by the community of participating libraries and publishers. All supporting libraries have a seat on the CLOCKSS Advisory Council and help steer the archive's strategy and policies. In the words of Vic Elliott, University Librarian at the Australian National University and one of the CLOCKSS Founding Librarians: "Together we decide our own future - it is not decided for us."

The new CLOCKSS supporting libraries are:

-In the U.S.

- Bates College College of William and Mary Emory & Henry College Marymount University Roanoke College University of Pittsburgh University of Tennessee, Chattanooga University of Utah Vassar College Virginia Wesleyan University of Mary Washington Wake Forest University

-In Canada - Athabasca University Concordia University College of Alberta University of British Columbia University of Manitoba University of Northern British Columbia University of Saskatchewan Vancouver Island University

-In Europe - European University Institute Oxford University

ASCE partners with CLOCKSS to Digitally Archive ASCE Journal Content

June 8, 2010

CLOCKSS and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) are pleased to announce their partnership to preserve the ASCE journals in the CLOCKSS archive. CLOCKSS is a long-term dark archive that preserves digital scholarly content for the very long term. CLOCKSS will preserve ASCE’s 32 journals in its geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 11 major research libraries around the world. ASCE will place over 33,000 articles in the archive, including backfile materials dating back to 1983.

In the event that any ASCE journal becomes unavailable from a publisher, CLOCKSS will make this abandoned and orphaned content available for free, under a creative commons license, to all scholars around the world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, ASCE ensures that its journals remain as useful as possible and will always be available to all scholars around the world.

“ASCE’s agreement with CLOCKSS supports our commitment to the long-term preservation and future accessibility of ASCE electronic journal content through digital archiving,” said Bruce Gossett, Managing Director of ASCE Publications. “As libraries continue to rely more heavily on electronic resources, this agreement allows for a transition to electronic content without sacrificing the library's traditional preservation mandate.”

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 are grateful to ASCE for its generous willingness to preserve its journals in a way that secures them for the long-term good of scholars worldwide.”

About ASCE - Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers is America's oldest national engineering society and represents more than 140,000 civil engineers worldwide. A not-for-profit organization, ASCE's mission is to advance professional knowledge and improve the practice of civil engineering through publications, conferences, leadership opportunities, and networking opportunities. http://www.asce.org

Thieme joins the CLOCKSS Archive, A Cost Effective Archiving Solution for Libraries and Publishers Around the Globe

May 18, 2010

Stuttgart - Thieme Publishing Group has joined CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a community-governed, non-profit joint venture between the world's leading scholarly publishers and research libraries. These organizations are working together to guarantee the permanent survival of academic digital content beyond the twenty-first century. Additional participants in this continuously growing international project include Stanford University, the Royal Society, Elsevier, and the University of Hong Kong.

"Archiving and securing the permanent availability of eJournals is of paramount importance. We at Thieme are pleased to participate in and support this initiative, while working in conjunction with the international publishing community,” says Thomas Connertz, Director Thieme eJournals.

Ten years ago, Stanford University librarians developed the innovative LOCKSS technology, upon which this project is based. The CLOCKSS archive is distributed across a global and geopolitically diverse network of archive nodes, and governed by all its participants. Content no longer available from any publisher (“triggered content”) is made available for free. In the case that any content from Thieme becomes triggered, CLOCKSS will release it to the world under a creative commons license to ensure it remains available forever.

By archiving with CLOCKSS, Thieme Publishing Group is ensuring that content from Thieme eJournals remains as useful as possible and will always be available, when needed, to all scholars around the world.

About Thieme - Thieme Publishing Group is a privately held STM publishing house employing more than 950 people and maintains offices in New York, Delhi, Stuttgart and three other locations in Germany. Founded in 1886, the Thieme name has become synonymous with high quality and excellence in medical and scientific publishing. Today, Thieme is the market leading publisher of neurosurgical content and holds strong market positions in orthopedics, radiology, anatomy and chemistry, among other specialties. Thieme publishes 137 peer-reviewed journals and over 500 new books annually. The company also has a rapidly growing array of web-based products in medicine and science. Popular online products include Thieme eJournals and the Thieme ElectronicBook Library, which are accessible via www.thieme-connect.com, Thieme’s platform for electronic products.

Five new publishers join CLOCKSS

February 22, 2010

CLOCKSS is pleased to announce a new group of five scholarly publishers that have recently joined the CLOCKSS archive:

American Academy of Pediatrics http://www.aap.org/

Co-Action Publishers http://www.co-action.net/

Edinburgh University Press http://www.euppublishing.com/

Liverpool University Press http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/

Rockefeller University Press http://www.rupress.org/

CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keeps 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. The archive is distributed across a worldwide network of twelve geographically and geopolitically diverse archive nodes.

This latest group of publishers to join CLOCKSS collectively archives over 60 journals, and adds to the diversity of publishers in the CLOCKSS community: from society publishers and university presses, to open-access publishers such as Co-Action.

As part of joining CLOCKSS, publishers 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 new participating publishers 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.

“CLOCKSS is pleased to work with such a diverse group of publishers. We designed the archive to benefit the entire scholarly publishing community: open access, commercial, non-profit, and society publishers, small and large,” said Gordon Tibbitts, CLOCKSS Executive Director and President of Atypon. “By keeping costs low and involving all participants in archive decisions, CLOCKSS has built a strong community and can preserve as wide a range of scholarly materials as possible.”

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. For more information, please contact info@clockss.org. http://www.clockss.org

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