STM publisher Elsevier has announced its agreement to participate in CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) archiving of ebooks. CLOCKSS is a community-governed archive committed to open access.
As a not-for-profit venture between academic publishers and research libraries, CLOCKSS is building a sustainable, geographically distributed archive. This ensures the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications, such as Elsevier science and technology ebooks, for the benefit of the greater global research community.
CLOCKSS works with leading scholarly publishers to make their content available for free, under a creative commons license, in the event that they can no longer supply it. Participation in CLOCKSS is one way to make sure that, no matter what happens in the publishing market, scholarly research will always remain available to scholars.
