The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of Museum Victoria and the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. CLOCKSS will preserve their collections in its geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. 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 museum produces two online scientific journals - Memoirs of Museum Victoria and Museum Victoria Science Reports. Both of these titles will be archived by CLOCKSS.
Museum Victoria claims to be the largest museum organisation in Australia, and holds a collection in excess of 17 million objects. Museum Victoria operates three major museums in Melbourne – Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, and the Immigration Museum.
In a related announcement, The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies to preserve their ejournal, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (LLCS) in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of archive nodes. The Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies is an international learned society with a multi-disciplinary membership, bringing together developmental scientists who have a shared interest in longitudinal and life course research. SLLS was established in 2009 and has over 400 members worldwide.
