Springer partners with CLOCKSS for its first e-book agreement

[Randy Kiefer <randy.kiefer@clockss.net>]

February 1, 2011

CLOCKSS is pleased to announce that it has partnered with 
Springer Science+Business Media to preserve over 32,000 e-books 
in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed 
network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research 
libraries around the world.

A not-for-profit joint venture between the world's leading 
scholarly publishers and research libraries CLOCKSS's mission is 
to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive 
for the benefit of the greater global research community.

"All eBooks available in our eBook packages will be preserved in 
the CLOCKSS archive," notes Heather Ruland Staines, Senior 
Manager eOperations, who oversees Springer's participation in 
digital preservation initiatives. "Because our eBook collections 
are offered in an ownership model, we feel a particular 
responsibility to ensuring their availability in perpetuity."

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS 
welcomes Springer Science+Business Media e-books into the 
community's archive as our first e-book collection."

Springer Science+Business Media is a leading global scientific 
publisher, publishing around 2,000 journals and more than 6,500 
new books a year. It has the largest STM eBook Collection 
worldwide, and is the largest business-to-business publisher in 
the German language.

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

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