Biologic Institute Preserves with the CLOCKSS Archive

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

Biologic Institute Preserves with the CLOCKSS Archive

June 23, 2011

The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered 
with Biologic Institute to preserve their e-content 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, Biologic Institute 
has committed to the preservation of their e-content. This action 
provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a 
"trigger event" and ensures an author's work will be maximally 
accessible and useful over time.

According to Biologic Institute Director Douglas Axe, ?We are 
strongly supportive of the transition from old-style publishing, 
where the dissemination of scholarly work was in the hands of a 
few large publishers, to the new model, where the scholars 
themselves can set up fully functional peer-reviewed journals. 
One of the challenges that had to be overcome for this to be 
possible was the perception that small publishers, being less 
well established than large ones, were less able to guarantee the 
permanence of what they publish. CLOCKSS provides the critically 
important solution to this by offering permanent availability of 
electronic content at a cost that even small non-profit 
publishers can afford.?

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, "CLOCKSS 
welcomes Biologic Institute?s e-content into the community's 
archive. CLOCKSS has achieved a rare consensus among libraries 
and publishers, and we are grateful as Biologic Institute joins 
the CLOCKSS Archive for its generous willingness to preserve its 
e-content in a way that secures it for the long-term good of 
scholars worldwide."

About Biologic Institute: Biologic Institute is a nonprofit 
research organization founded in 2005 for the purpose of 
developing and testing the scientific case for intelligent design 
in biology and exploring its scientific implications. Beginning 
in 2010, it has published BIO-Complexity, an open-access, 
peer-reviewed scientific journal. http://biologicinstitute.org 
http://bio-complexity.org

About CLOCKSS:
CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a nonprofit 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