CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a community-governed archive cooperative, has announced that two major academic library groups in Japan have joined the CLOCKSS archive. The library groups are: 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. Since joining the archive node in February 2010, NII has collaborated with CLOCKSS by leading an effort to facilitate the participation of Japanese libraries.
CLOCKSS is a not-for-profit joint venture between leading scholarly publishers and research libraries. These organisations are working together to guarantee the permanent survival of academic digital content beyond the twenty-first century. The CLOCKSS archive is distributed across a global and geopolitically diverse network of archive nodes, and governed by all its participants. 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').
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