Research4Life and CLOCKSS have formed a partnership to connect research access with long-term preservation, supporting equitable participation in scholarly publishing across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The collaboration ensures that research from these regions remains accessible, discoverable, and permanently preserved.
Research4Life currently provides free or low-cost access to academic and professional resources for institutions in more than 125 countries, benefiting over 11,500 organizations, including universities, hospitals, and government bodies. Beyond access, the program increasingly focuses on strengthening local publishing capacity through training, such as multilingual open access publishing workshops. Research4Life is running a course for publishers, editors, and managers on DOAJ indexation to boost local publishing capacity and visibility.
CLOCKSS, a not-for-profit digital archive preserving more than 60 million scholarly articles and books from 650 publishers worldwide, safeguards content that may otherwise be lost due to technical failures or publisher closures. Its “triggered content” model releases preserved works as open access when publishers can no longer provide access, ensuring enduring availability.
Through this partnership, CLOCKSS will extend its preservation infrastructure to Research4Life Connector countries, working with Country Connectors to identify local publishers and integrate preservation into national research ecosystems. The initiative aligns access with preservation, reinforcing local research resilience and ensuring that scholarship from LMICs remains visible within the global scholarly record.
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