ASCE partners with CLOCKSS to Digitally Archive ASCE Journal Content

[Gordon Tibbitts <Gordon.Tibbitts@clockss.org>]

ANNOUNCEMENT

ASCE partners with CLOCKSS to Digitally Archive ASCE Journal 
Content

June 8, 2010 - CLOCKSS and the American Society of Civil 
Engineers (ASCE) are pleased to announce their partnership to 
preserve the ASCE journals in the CLOCKSS archive. CLOCKSS is a 
long-term dark archive that preserves digital scholarly content 
for the very long term. CLOCKSS will preserve ASCE's 32 journals 
in its geographically and geopolitically distributed network of 
redundant archive nodes, located at 11 major research libraries 
around the world. ASCE will place over 33,000 articles in the 
archive, including backfile materials dating back to 1983.

In the event that any ASCE journal becomes unavailable from a 
publisher, CLOCKSS will make this abandoned and orphaned content 
available for free, under a Creative Commons license, to all 
scholars around the world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, ASCE 
ensures that its journals remain as useful as possible and will 
always be available to all scholars around the world.

"ASCE's agreement with CLOCKSS supports our commitment to the 
long-term preservation and future accessibility of ASCE 
electronic journal content through digital archiving," said Bruce 
Gossett, Managing Director of ASCE Publications. "As libraries 
continue to rely more heavily on electronic resources, this 
agreement allows for a transition to electronic content without 
sacrificing the library's traditional preservation mandate."

CLOCKSS Co-Chair and Executive Director Gordon Tibbitts adds, 
"CLOCKSS has achieved a rare consensus among libraries and 
publishers to make triggered content open access. We are grateful 
to ASCE for its generous willingness to preserve its journals in 
a way that secures them for the long-term good of scholars 
worldwide."

About ASCE

Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers is 
America's oldest national engineering society and represents more 
than 140,000 civil engineers worldwide. A not-for-profit 
organization, ASCE's mission is to advance professional knowledge 
and improve the practice of civil engineering through 
publications, conferences, leadership opportunities, and 
networking opportunities. http://www.asce.org

About CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a not for profit joint venture 
between the world's leading scholarly publishers and research 
libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically 
distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term 
survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of 
the greater global research community. http://www.clockss.org

-- 
Gordon Tibbitts
Executive Director
Gordon.Tibbitts@clockss.org
(617) 599-8236
CLOCKSS - A Trusted Community Governed Archive [www.clockss.org]