QScience.com preserves journals with the CLOCKSS Archive

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

QScience.com from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals preserves 
journals with the CLOCKSS Archive

(apologies for cross posting)

The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that Bloomsbury Qatar 
Foundation Journals (BQFJ) is preserving their journals in 
CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network 
of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research 
libraries around the world.

By archiving with CLOCKSS, Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals 
ensures that its open access articles remain open access forever. 
If necessary, CLOCKSS will make this content available, under a 
Creative Commons license, at no cost to all scholars around the 
world.

Arend Kuster, Managing Director of Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation 
Journals, said "Archiving and securing the permanent availability 
of eJournals is of paramount importance. We at Bloomsbury Qatar 
Foundation Journals are pleased to participate in and support 
this initiative, while working in conjunction with the 
international publishing community.  It is key to our mission in 
establishing QScience.com as a leading journals platform from the 
region, and we want to establish preservation and archiving into 
our workflow early on."

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS 
welcomes Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals and the 
QScience.com platform. Working with such publishers in an online 
format is exciting. We are pleased to be a partner with the 
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals in their new venture."

About  Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals is the publisher of online 
journals at their recently launched site QScience.com, an 
innovative and collaborative peer-reviewed online publishing 
platform from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ). It 
offers a fast and transparent scholarly publishing process that 
is centered on the author, bringing their research to a global 
audience. QScience.com is the online home of a growing range of 
peer-reviewed open-access journals and also provides a central 
resource for databases and repositories. Our aim is to reflect 
the burgeoning research environment of Qatar to the wider world 
and to foster scientific and scholarly communication in the 21st 
century. http://www.qscience.com

About the CLOCKSS Archive

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

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