CLOCKSS has announced that it has formalised its Succession Plan to ensure the enduring survival of the scholarly content it preserves.
Four of CLOCKSS's twelve library nodes have agreed to continue to preserve the digital content that is preserved in CLOCKSS, if the organisation were to cease to exist. In that unlikely event, Stanford Libraries (US), Humboldt University (Germany), the University of Edinburgh (UK), and the University of Alberta Libraries (Canada) would take over the responsibility and the organisation for running the LOCKSS software across the CLOCKSS content, to continue preservation for the future.
The CLOCKSS Board – including twelve academic libraries and twelve academic publishers – has endorsed this plan, which also has a broader community of support among its 260 participating publishers and 300 supporting libraries.
The CLOCKSS Succession Plan is part of its Trusted Repository Audit Checklist (TRAC) certification by the Center for Research Libraries.
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