Five new publishers join CLOCKSS

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

February 22, 2010

CLOCKSS is pleased to announce a new group of five scholarly
publishers that have recently joined the CLOCKSS archive:

American Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/

Co-Action Publishers
http://www.co-action.net/

Edinburgh University Press
http://www.euppublishing.com/

Liverpool University Press
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/

Rockefeller University Press
http://www.rupress.org/

CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) is a
community-governed, not-for-profit archive founded by librarians
and publishers to ensure the long-term availability of scholarly
digital content. The archive is distributed across a worldwide
network of twelve geographically and geopolitically diverse
archive nodes.

This latest group of publishers to join CLOCKSS collectively
archives over 60 journals, and adds to the diversity of
publishers in the CLOCKSS community: from society publishers and
university presses, to open-access publishers such as Co-Action.

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").  The
new participating publishers will also each appoint
representatives to the CLOCKSS board. The board is made up of
world-leading publishers and libraries who work together to
govern the archive and set strategies and policies.

"CLOCKSS is pleased to work with such a diverse group of
publishers. We designed the archive to benefit the entire
scholarly publishing community: open access, commercial,
non-profit, and society publishers, small and large," said Gordon
Tibbitts, CLOCKSS Executive Director and President of Atypon. "By
keeping costs low and involving all participants in archive
decisions, CLOCKSS has built a strong community and can preserve
as wide a range of scholarly materials as possible."

About CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a not-for-profit joint venture
between the world=92s 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. For more information,
please contact info@clockss.org. http://www.clockss.org

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