CLOCKSS, a community-led collaboration of academic publishers and research libraries dedicated to providing a sustainable online archive, is seeking feedback on a new draft international standard for the preservation of eBooks in EPUB format, known as EPUB/a (a for archive). This initiative, conducted on behalf of ISO and NISO, aims to ensure that EPUB files remain accessible and part of the global cultural and intellectual heritage.
CLOCKSS invites accessibility and digital preservation experts, librarians, and publishers to review and provide comments on the draft, helping to refine and perfect the standard before its potential adoption as an ISO International Standard. Contributions and suggestions for the draft standard can be submitted via email to awise@clockss.org. More information on their initiative is available on the CLOCKSS website.
In a related news, CLOCKSS has been named a finalist in the “Teaching and Communication” category at the Digital Preservation Coalition Awards 2024. This recognition underscores CLOCKSS’s efforts to educate academic publishers about the critical importance of long-term digital preservation and to actively involve them in preserving their scholarly content. According to CLOCKSS, 25% of academic journals are at risk, with academic books facing even greater threats.
The Digital Preservation Coalition Awards celebrate excellence and innovation in digital preservation, and being named a finalist highlights CLOCKSS’s significant contributions to this field. The winners will be announced later this year.
Read more on CLOCKSS’s nomination and work here.
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