JULAC (Hong Kong) Partners with CLOCKSS

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

Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) of Hong Kong
Partners with the CLOCKSS Archive

June 14, 2011

The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has entered 
into a library partnership agreement with the Joint University 
Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) of Hong Kong. The member 
libraries include The Chinese University of Hong Kong, City 
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, The Hong 
Kong Institute of Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic 
University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 
Lingnan University, and The University of Hong Kong. The goal of 
the partnership is to have JULAC leading the effort to secure 
participation in CLOCKSS by regional libraries.

JULAC Chair, Professor Steve Ching said, "JULAC is very pleased 
to be participating in the CLOCKSS initiative. The proposal to 
join CLOCKSS has been endorsed by all eight of Hong Kong's 
government funded academic libraries which comprise the JULAC 
membership. JULAC supports the CLOCKSS vision to provide free 
access for the community to orphaned and abandoned electronic 
content that is no longer available from any publisher, as this 
is consistent with the JULAC strategy for the preservation of 
print and digital assets for future generations of scholars in 
Hong Kong."

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS 
welcomes the partnership with JULAC of Hong Kong. I look forward 
to working with JULAC on increasing the library participation in 
this important, and rapidly developing, 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 JULAC:

The Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) was 
established in 1967 by the Heads of University Committee (HUCOM). 
It is a forum to discuss, coordinate, and collaborate on library 
information resources and services among the libraries of the 
eight tertiary education institutions funded by the University 
Grants Committee (UGC) of the Hong Kong SAR Government. 
http://www.julac.org/

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