The CLOCKSS Archive has announced that academic publisher Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) has entered into an agreement with CLOCKSS to preserve ejournals hosted on bepress Digital Commons publishing repositories. The journals are all participants in the new Digital Commons Publishing Services programme, which is designed to give library-published journals access to professional publishing infrastructure.
The initial addition to the CLOCKSS Archive's content includes nineteen journals published by ten different university libraries and other academic organisations. These include: AcademyHealth; Butler University; Grand Valley State University; Kennesaw State University; Pacific University; Purdue University; University of Massachusetts Amherst; University of Nevada Las Vegas; Western Kentucky University; and Global Summitry Project at the University of Toronto.
The CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) 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.
