CLOCKSS early lessons and progress

[Victoria Reich <vreich@stanford.edu>]

Dear Colleagues,

The CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) Board would like to take this 
opportunity to apprise you of our progress, to share early 
lessons, and to encourage you to participate in the process of 
building this shared resource.

The CLOCKSS participants (major academic publishers, research 
libraries, and the Stanford University team) are building a 
community-governed, stable, digital archive for published 
scholarly content. CLOCKSS access is unbundled from fees: after a 
'trigger' event (when a publisher is no longer able to provide 
electronic access to some or all of its archived material), 
content will be freely available to all. Many libraries have 
moved away from building and preserving collections, and there is 
increasing interest in community stewardship and preservation of, 
and guaranteed long-term access to, scholarly publications.

Since its inception early in 2006, the CLOCKSS members made 
significant strides towards the effective management of archived 
materials, and learned some important lessons. We are also 
extremely proud to have been awarded the ALA ALCTS 2007 
Outstanding Collaboration Citation, which will be formally 
presented at ALA's annual meeting in Washington in June.

To find out more about our early lessons and progress, go to 
www.clockss.org and click on the link 'CLOCKSS Lessons.'

As always, we welcome comments and suggestions. Please let us 
hear from you.

Sincerely,

Vicky Reich
vreich@stanford.edu