Community-governed archive cooperative Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (CLOCKSS) has announced that a group of five scholarly publishers have recently joined the CLOCKSS archive. The publishers are: American Academy of Pediatrics; Co-Action Publishers; Edinburgh University Press; Liverpool University Press; and Rockefeller University Press.
CLOCKSS is a 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. The latest group of publishers to join CLOCKSS collectively archive 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 leading publishers and libraries who work together to govern the archive and set strategies and policies.
The use of archiving services is on the rise amid scholarly publications. Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press (CUP), recently completed the 2009 Collection of its Digital Archives, adding to over a century of digitised research material. Over 3.3 million pages are now available in the 2009 Collection, the vast majority of which have never been available online before. Earlier this month, Liverpool University Press announced an agreement with non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico to preserve its entire collection of 13 online journals. Liverpool University Press publishes academic journals and books on a wide range of subjects, including history, literature, art, and architecture by authors from around the world.
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