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> From:
> Amy Kohrman <akohrman_at_stanford.edu>
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> **APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING**
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> Researchers increasingly access journal articles online, but the real
> possibility exists that, due to natural disaster or human/computing
> failure, digital content might not always be available. Libraries and
> publishers have joined forces in an initiative called CLOCKSS*,
> providing leadership and the supporting technology, to ensure
> reliable, long-term access to scholarly e-content.
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> The moment has arrived to see how CLOCKSS works.
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> As of today, the web-published content of the journal Graft: Organ and
> Cell Transplantation (SAGE Publications) has been exported from the
> CLOCKSS archive, and is now available to the world from two CLOCKSS
> hosting platforms at universities in Europe and the US. Released under
> a Creative Commons license, this content is free to researchers,
> students and the general public, without need of any subscription.
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> CLOCKSS is a trusted and secure dark archive, preserving scholarly
> journal content from the world's leading publishers. The CLOCKSS
> system is based on geographically-dispersed nodes located at major
> research libraries into which e-journal content from publishers is
> routinely ingested. Archived copies remain "dark" (hidden, secure and
> unavailable for use), until a trigger event and the CLOCKSS Board
> votes to "light up" the content and restore access to it again via a
> hosting platform. At present there are seven archive nodes and two
> hosting platforms. These numbers are expected to double in order to
> achieve added security from global coverage.
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> SAGE Publications is one of 11 premier publishers (together accounting
> for about 60% of e-journal content) participating in the CLOCKSS Pilot
> and serving on the CLOCKSS Board. When SAGE announced that it was
> discontinuing Graft, this became the first real-world test for the
> CLOCKSS system and its procedures: the CLOCKSS Board, comprising both
> publishers and library organizations, determined that a trigger event
> had occurred; instruction was given for Graft content to be copied
> from archive nodes in the CLOCKSS network to the designated hosting
> platforms; and 18 issues of Graft became available to the world.
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> Stanford University, where the underlying LOCKSS software was
> developed, and the University of Edinburgh are among the seven
> participants on the library side, acting as stewards for the CLOCKSS
> system. The two universities have also been designated as CLOCKSS
> hosting platforms in order to demonstrate, through the release of
> content, how CLOCKSS works, with EDINA, the UK national data centre at
> Edinburgh, playing that role for Europe, and Stanford University
> Library doing so for the US. Both serve as points of worldwide access,
> free to all, without any prior subscription, fee, or registration.
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> To read Graft, please click here:
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> http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Graft_Public_Copies
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> * CLOCKSS is transitioning from a Pilot Program to an organization for
> the long-term, building on the technology and findings of LOCKSS (for
> Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe).
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> Additional Information about CLOCKSS
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> Libraries in the CLOCKSS Pilot:
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> Indiana University, New York Public Library, OCLC, Rice University,
> Stanford University, University of Edinburgh, and University of Virginia
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> Publishers in the CLOCKSS Pilot:
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> American Chemical Society, American Medical Association, American
> Physiological Society, Elsevier, IOP Publishing, Nature Publishing
> Group, Oxford University Press, SAGE Publications, Springer, Taylor &
> Francis, and Wiley-Blackwell
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> In June 2007 CLOCKSS was the inaugural winner of the Association for
> Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Outstanding
> Collaboration Citation, which recognizes and encourages collaborative
> problem-solving efforts in the areas of acquisition, access,
> management, preservation or archiving of library materials. The ALCTS
> is a division of the American Library Association.
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> The CLOCKSS initiative is funded by participating publishers and
> library organizations, as well as by a grant from the National Digital
> Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) via the
> US Library of Congress. The grant is intended to finance CLOCKSS
> through a mixture of ingest fees from publishers and revenue from an
> endowment raised from voluntary contributions over the next five
> years. The need to secure long-term sustainable funding for CLOCKSS
> will be one of the key strategic issues facing the Board in 2008.
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> This announcement forms part of the CLOCKSS campaign to engage support
> across the research community and help raise that endowment.
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> For information on joining the CLOCKSS initiative, please visit
> http://www.clockss.org or contact clockss-info (at) clockss (dot) org.
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> January 30, 2008
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> http://www.clockss.org
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> Stanford University Libraries
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> Stanford, California USA
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Received on Sat Feb 02 2008 - 02:51:33 EST