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CILEA Italian Consortium Partners with the CLOCKSS Archive

CILEA Interuniversity Consortium of Italy Partners with the 
CLOCKSS Archive (apologies for cross posting)

June 25, 2011

The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has entered 
into a library partnership agreement with the CILEA 
Interuniversity Consortium of Italy. The member libraries 
supporting the CLOCKSS Archive include Universita Cattolica del 
Sacro Cuore, University of Milan, University of Bergamo, 
University of Verona, Instituto Nazionale Geofisica e 
Vulcanologia (INGV), Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi 
Social (LUISS), and Istituto Universitario Europeo of Fiesole 
(IUE). The goal of the partnership is to have CILEA leading the 
effort to secure participation in CLOCKSS by regional libraries.

"CILEA, which always works for the issues of preservation of 
electronic content, believes that CLOCKSS represents an important 
initiative to support and spread within librarianship, as is 
consistent with our institutional mission and the services that 
we have long offered to our users directly. CILEA has therefore 
accepted the invitation to support and spread the project 
throughout the country of Italy," states Eleonora Rodi, TITLE of 
CILEA.

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS 
welcomes the partnership with CILEA of Italy. I look forward to 
working with Director Luigi Ballardini and his staff on 
increasing the library participation in this important academic 
area of the world. Working with global libraries to develop the 
support network is fundamental to the sustainability of CLOCKSS's 
digital preservation efforts.

About CILEA: CILEA Interuniversity Consortium of Italy is a 
consortium of universities in Italy, established in 1974. The 
Italian Ministry of Universities and Research also belongs to the 
Consortium. CILEA is among the most advanced supercomputing 
centres in Europe. According to its statute, CILEA has many 
different purposes. Among them is the promotion of the use of the 
most advanced computing systems in scientific and technological 
research, both public and private. It provides high-performance 
computing systems to the national research. It promotes the 
technological transfer in the field of information and 
communication technology. It creates, maintains, and manages 
information systems for the national education and research 
system. All CILEA's services are offered to universities, public 
agencies, and private companies.

About CLOCKSS: The CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff 
Safe) Archive 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