Community-governed archive cooperative Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (CLOCKSS) has announced that two new society publishers have recently joined its archive. The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society have signed agreements to join CLOCKSS and preserve their materials in its network of geographically and geopolitically distributed archive nodes. CLOCKSS is a not-for-profit archive founded by librarians and publishers to ensure the long-term availability of scholarly digital content.
As part of joining CLOCKSS, the two societies have agreed to release their archived content for free if a time comes when it is no longer available from any publisher (‘trigger event’).
The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society will also each appoint representatives to the CLOCKSS board. The board is made up of publishers and libraries working together to govern the archive and set strategies and policies, such as how to extend CLOCKSS to smaller scholarly publishers and those in the developing world.
The use of free archiving services is on the rise amid scholarly publications. Recently, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced plans to provide its institutional library customers with CLOCKSS and Portico services to preserve their electronic resources. ACM is offering these services to protect the online collection of resources in its Digital Library that are used by over 1 million computing professionals and students worldwide.
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