STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has joined CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a community-governed archive cooperative.
CLOCKSS is a not-for-profit joint venture between leading scholarly publishers and research libraries. These organisations are working together to guarantee the permanent survival of academic digital content beyond the twenty-first century. Additional participants in this international project include Stanford University, the Royal Society, Elsevier and the University of Hong Kong.
The CLOCKSS archive is distributed across a global and geopolitically diverse network of archive nodes, and governed by all its participants. As part of joining CLOCKSS, publishers agree to release their archived content to the world for free if a time comes when it is no longer available from any publisher (‘trigger event’). In the case that any content from Thieme becomes triggered, CLOCKSS will release it to the world under a creative commons license to ensure it remains available forever.
By archiving with CLOCKSS, Thieme Publishing Group seeks to ensure that content from Thieme eJournals will always be available, when needed, to all scholars around the world.
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