Berkeley Electronic Press Digital Commons partners with LOCKSS Program
July 8, 2010
Berkeley Electronic Press has partnered with Stanford University's LOCKSS program - Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe - to implement an OAIS-compliant archival solution using the award-winning LOCKSS technology. Berkeley Electronic Press, "LOCKSS: Preserving Digital Commons Content at Your Institution" (2010). Reference Material. Paper 22. http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/reference/22
GPO Joins LOCKSS Alliance
June 14, 2010
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has joined a worldwide digital preservation alliance to further collaborate with federal depository libraries and other organizations on preservation initiatives. LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so they can collect and preserve their own copies of authorized electronic content. Since its founding in 1861, GPO has been promoting the preservation of government information through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). In 2009, the agency launched GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys), a content management system, preservation repository, and advanced search engine that provides the public with permanent public access to federal government information. (www.fdsys.gov) GPO’s participation in LOCKSS will support development efforts by libraries that utilize LOCKSS.
“GPO’s long partnership with the library community will only be enhanced by joining LOCKSS,” said Acting Superintendent of Documents Ric Davis. “By joining LOCKSS it will give GPO the opportunity to share the preservation initiatives the agency has taken with FDsys and explore additional opportunities with the FDLP.”
“Stanford incubated and hosts LOCKSS to assure that the research community and the public will retain access to digital information over the long term, and protecting federal documents through LOCKSS strengthens both scholarship and an informed electorate indefinitely,” said Michael Keller, Stanford University Librarian, Director of HighWire Press, and Director of the Stanford University Press.
LOCKSS-KOPAL Interoperability project announcement
November 11, 2009
We are pleased to announce that the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society) has funded Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's Berlin School of Library and Information Science, the Computer and Media Service at Humboldt-Universität, and the German National Library to carry out Project LuKII. The project has three goals: 1) to establish a cost-effective LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) network in Germany including infrastructure to provide ongoing technical support and management for LOCKSS and its variants network in Germany; 2) to conceptualize and implement interoperability between LOCKSS and KOPAL in order to combine cost-effective bitstream preservation with well-developed usability preservation tools; and 3) to test the interoperability prototype by archiving data from German institutional repositories.
The LOCKSS Program, founded in 1998 at Stanford University Library, will be a collaborating partner. "In the online environment," writes Vicky Reich, LOCKSS Program Director, "community implementation and control of economically sustainable and technically robust digital preservation infrastructure is essential for long term continued access to scholarly and national heritage materials. The LOCKSS Program, Stanford University is honored to be participating in this collaborative effort to help keep German digital assets safe."
The German National Library is the national depository for all print and electronic materials published in Germany. It has a mandate both to archive and to guarantee long-term access. In cooperation with its partners it has implemented and continues to support a long-term archive for digital objects (KOPAL). It also hosts nestor, the network of expertise for digital preservation in Germany and is involved in a host of other digital preservation projects.
The Berlin School of Library and Information Science is a member of the interntional iSchool / iCaucus group and offers bachelors, masters, and doctoral programs in library and information science. The Computer and Media Service is a member of both nestor and DINI, the German Initiative for Networked Information.
For more information see: http://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de/forschung/digibib/forschung/projekte/LuKII
CLOCKSS Welcomes Two New Publishers: Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Society
November 9, 2009
CLOCKSS is pleased to announce that two new society publishers have recently joined the CLOCKSS archive. The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society have signed agreements this fall to join CLOCKSS and preserve their materials in the CLOCKSS network of geographically and geopolitically distributed archive nodes. CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep 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.
As part of joining CLOCKSS, the two societies 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 Royal Society of Chemistry is pleased to be involved with the CLOCKSS archiving program. We appreciate the importance of archiving articles from important scholarly journals for future generations of researchers and see CLOCKSS as a major initiative within this area,” said James Milne, the Editorial Director of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society 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, such as how to extend CLOCKSS to smaller scholarly publishers and those in the developing world. Stuart Taylor, Head of Publishing at Royal Society Publishing, commented that, “In an increasingly digital age in which the use of print journals is declining rapidly, the question of the long term security of digital content is a critical one. We are pleased to be joining CLOCKSS which offers a well thought-out and organised solution for scholars, publishers and librarians.”
“We are pleased to welcome these new societies to the CLOCKSS community. The commitment is growing among publishers to preserve their content in a way that keeps it in the hands of scholars,” said CLOCKSS Co-Chair Gordon Tibbitts. “The CLOCKSS model really appeals to scholarly societies and their members, who want to make sure their materials remain as useful and available as possible over the very long term.”
About RSC Publishing RSC Publishing is a not-for-profit publisher wholly owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. One of the largest and most dynamic publishers of chemical science information in the world, RSC's publishing activity dates back to 1841 and features a wide range of journals, magazines, databases and books. http://www.rsc.org/publishing
About Royal Society Publishing Royal Society Publishing is the publishing division of the Royal Society. The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660. http://royalsocietypublishing.org
LOCKSS Program Preserves Orphaned Title, Pain Reviews
October 22, 2009
Pain Reviews, an open access electronic journal that ceased publication in 2002, is being securely preserved in the LOCKSS distributed preservation network. Pain Reviews, published by Hodder Arnold from 1998 through 2002 is freely available online via the IngentaConnect publishing platform through to December 2009 (see http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/arn/pr).
LOCKSS Program staff in the United States and in the United Kingdom worked closely with Publishing Technology and Hodder Arnold to ensure that Pain Reviews would be preserved in a way that benefited all scholars, worldwide.
Hodder Arnold first gave permission for Pain Reviews to be freely available. This open access permits all LOCKSS Alliance members to collect and preserve Pain Reviews independent of whether or not they previously held a subscription.
Hodder Arnold then licensed the content with a Creative Commons license to ensure the uses and rights of the content are clear and transparent, and that legal future use of this material is flexible.
Libraries that select and preserve Pain Reviews in LOCKSS will have access to this journal in perpetuity, without any further payment for access.
Victoria Reich, Director of LOCKSS, notes, "Pain Reviews is an outstanding example of how libraries are using the distributed digital preservation LOCKSS Program (www.lockss.org) to take custody of and preserve important scholarly materials. LOCKSS technology provides an affordable, managed distributed digital preservation environment, including migrating content when required for continued access. That Pain Reviews is assigned a Creative Commons (CC) license is an extra bonus. The CC license enables archive interoperability and opens the opportunity for this open access content to be made freely available even after it's removed from the publisher's hosting platform."
Louise Tutton, Senior Vice President of Publishing Technology's Scholarly Division, comments, "Cancellation of titles is a reality both for publishers and publishing platforms. Where title cancellation occurs, we are delighted to see this content made available for preservation through services such as the LOCKSS Program, allowing librarians to take active measures to build collections of content important to their scholars and ensure its long term preservation."
Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA and the UK LOCKSS Alliance, adds "Pain Reviews highlights the advantage of the community driven approach taken by the UK LOCKSS Alliance. The UK LOCKSS Alliance community brought this title to our attention, which led to LOCKSS staff in the UK and US preparing the title and its contents for long term preservation and ready (open) access. I am delighted that this process has ensured continuity of access to Pain Reviews for libraries in the UK and internationally."
CLOCKSS and CrossRef Collaboration Makes it Easier to Find Discontinued Journal Articles
September 10, 2009
CLOCKSS and CrossRef have implemented the means to track articles from discontinued journals using the CrossRef DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) originally assigned to the articles. When a published journal or other content is no longer available from a publisher, an archive that stores that content experiences a “trigger event.” CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) experienced its first trigger events with the SAGE Publications' journals Auto/Biography and Graft and Oxford University Press' Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention. These events led to the discovery that CrossRef would need to accommodate multiple DOI resolution, as the affected titles were stored in multiple archives. All three titles are now available for free at http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Triggered_Content.
“Two important tenets of CrossRef’s mission are persistence and cooperation,” said Ed Pentz, Executive Director of CrossRef. “Making sure that the CrossRef DOIs that have been assigned to content that has moved from a publisher journal platform to an archive still resolve to the articles is an important part of that persistence. Persistence is not only achieved through technology but by cooperation: CrossRef, publishers, journal hosting services, and the archiving organizations have all worked together to ensure continued access to the scholarly record. These journals are particularly strong examples of the system in action as there are multiple archives available to guarantee ongoing access.”
“The CLOCKSS Archive, the community-governed archiving initiative with broad support from publishers large and small, CrossRef, and the library community, has made all three journals openly available from two geographically separate sites,” notes Gordon Tibbitts, Co-Chair CLOCKSS Board of Directors. CLOCKSS truly serves the world's scholars by ensuring content no longer available from any publisher is available to everyone for free.”
The following are live examples of CrossRef DOIs from each of the archived journals:
Auto/Biography: http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0967550706ab044oa
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brief-treatment/mhg012
LOCKSS Chief Scientist Speaks at Library of Congress
August 23, 2009
When David Rosenthal talks, people listen. They may not always agree with the Chief Scientist of the LOCKSS program based at Stanford University, but they engage with what he has to say.
This was the case on July 27, 2009, when a large crowd gathered at the Library of Congress to hear Rosenthal’s presentation, "How Are We Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents?". Rosenthal’s talk was a reprise of his widely-discussed plenary at the Spring 2009 Coalition for Networked Information Task Force meeting. In his introduction at the CNI meeting, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch told the audience that Rosenthal’s work had changed his thinking about digital preservation.
Rosenthal's presentation at the Library was filmed and is available as a webcast. http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4629
LOCKSS and Archive-It Interoperability!
July 21, 2009
We are pleased to announce that Web data harvested using ArchiveIt into the Internet Archive was successfully re-harvested into a LOCKSS network for preservation. The transfer was part of a Andrew W. Mellon foundation project with the University of Rochester.
If you are interested in learning more, please contact the LOCKSS team lockss-support (at) lockss (dot) org or the Archive-It team, http://www.archive-it.org/
From the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2009 Task Force Meeting
July 13, 2009
Video of Dr. David Rosenthal's Plenary Presentation, "How Are We Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents?" is now available from http://vimeo.com/5407401.
[edit] Clifford Lynch introduces David Rosenthal
"It's my really sincere pleasure to introduce David Rosenthal as our opening Plenary Speaker. I've known David for quite a long time now. He's well known in our community for his work on the LOCKSS Program at Stanford. He's actually done a tremendous amount of stuff in the computer industry going back over 20 years. He was an early person at Sun Microsystems, worked on the Andrew Project at Carnegie Mellon. He was very early at Nvidia, which builds high-performance graphics chips, which are probably in most of your laptops, at least if you have a fairly recent one. And, has also been involved with a variety of other things at Stanford.
David has been doing something really important for all of us for the last few years, which is, he's been doing some stepping back and trying to think critically about our assumptions about digital preservation.
Without stealing any of his thunder, hopefully, I want to say that in the last few years, particularly, I've become very uneasy with some of the sort of enshrined assumptions in this area. Some of which were laid down by very good and insightful work. But work that was done ten or fifteen years ago and that really was done by people grounded in the experiences of an era that's quite different than the one we're dealing in now, an era that perhaps was much more characterized by digital incunabula rather than the sort of, increasingly ubiquitous digital material that we're facing now at almost incomprehensible scale.
David has gone back systematically and asked: “Are these assumptions right?”; “Are they wrong?” “If they're wrong, what are more accurate assumptions - where do those assumptions lead us?”
I think that it's very, very important for us to engage this kind of thinking as we plan our production - “gotta get it right because our society depends on it” digital preservation strategies and digital preservation programs.
So, I invite you to listen to David's reflections on this, to think hard about them. I have been fortunate enough to be able to preview some of this material on a couple of different occasions. I will tell you for whatever it's worth, it's certainly changed some of my thinking about digital preservation. I won't promise that it will change yours but I will promise that whatever opinions you hold on it after hearing David will be far better grounded and far better informed.
Please join me in welcoming David Rosenthal."
AIP Partners with CLOCKSS to Digitally Archive
June 15, 2009
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced it will preserve its award-winning publications in the CLOCKSS digital archive of scholarly research content. AIP will place over 150,000 articles in the archive, including back-file materials dating back to 1999.
CLOCKSS is a community-governed, not-for-profit collaboration between librarians and publishers. The CLOCKSS archive ensures the long-term availability of scholarly digital content. With CLOCKSS, content is housed and preserved at major research libraries around the world. When a title is no longer available from any publisher, and with the approval of the CLOCKSS Board of Directors, that title is copied from the archive and made freely available to everyone with a Web browser. The Board is composed equally of publishers and libraries. Additionally, CLOCKSS supporters appoint one representative to serve on the CLOCKSS Advisory Council.
"AIP has long been committed to digital archiving, formulating our first policy statement on the subject more than 10 years ago," said Tim Ingoldsby, AIP's Director of Strategic Initiatives and Publisher Relations. "In the intervening years, we've been gratified when other publishers have taken our framework as a model when fashioning their own archiving policy."
Free Online Access to Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Available through CLOCKSS
April 27, 2009
Oxford Journals announced today that the journal Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, which has been discontinued, will be accessible through CLOCKSS.
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention ceased publication at the end of 2008. Archival content from volume 1, issue 1 (2001) to volume 8, issue 4 (2008) will be removed from the Oxford Journals online platform at the end of May 2009. Only CLOCKSS, one of OUP's preservation partners, will provide free access to the title and take responsibility for its ongoing long-term preservation.
Fiona Kearney, Director for UK Business Development & Rights for Oxford University Press, commented: "We are proud to participate in these preservation initiatives so that readers of this journal can continue to access archival content even after it has ceased publication and to ensure the continuity of the electronic scholarly record."
"Oxford University Press, along with the other founding members of CLOCKSS, agreed early on to make triggered content in CLOCKSS available to the world for free," explained Gordon Tibbitts, Co-Chair of the CLOCKSS board. "That policy, along with CLOCKSS' low operating costs, and its community-based leadership, sets CLOCKSS apart. In these challenging economic times CLOCKSS enables libraries of all sizes to benefit from its digital preservation efforts."
Saving for the Future
February/March 2009
In this Research Information article, Neil Grindley of JISC describes the importance of preserving digital information and some of the major projects that are helping with this. Grindley writes: "There are many innovative DP initiatives underway, several of which receive funding from JISC. The UK LOCKSS Alliance (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) addresses electronic scholarly journals. As its name suggests, LOCKSS helps institutions retain access to their data assets – in this case archived e-journals – by storing copies on several external servers. This safeguard encourages educational institutions to engage with the issue and gives them the confidence to progress the move from print to more easily searchable e-journals. By being part of the collaborative UK LOCKSS Alliance, the risks to individual institutions of online storage are removed. In layman’s terms, LOCKSS is the closest that libraries can get to doing digitally what they used to do with actual journals; they get to keep a copy. With copyright remaining a worry for some parties, CLOCKSS (C for ‘Controlled’) is a similar venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries."
Read the article in its entirety here
Excerpt from "A Cautionary Look at Online Literary Magazines" by Jessica Powers
February 24, 2009
"Some online publications are members of the international LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system, which takes continual snapshots of select publications, then saves them in their digital archive. 'Thus, should said publication ever go the way of the dodo, or lose their server and disappear off the web, the actual publication never disappears,' says Didato."
Read the whole essay here
Momentum Grows for Long-term Preservation Strategy of Digital Content
January 27, 2009
Support for the community-governed archive cooperative, CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), continues to grow as they announce the addition of the University of Alberta as its newest governing library member. The University of Alberta Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and has the second largest academic and research collection in Canada. The CLOCKSS initiative was created in response to the growing concern that digital content purchased by libraries may not always be available due to retirement of an electronic journal or catastrophic events. CLOCKSS addresses this problem by creating a secure, multi-site archive of web-published content that can be tapped into as necessary to provide ongoing access to researchers worldwide for free. "We are proud to welcome the University of Alberta as our first Canadian partner," says Gordon Tibbitts, CEO of bepress and Co-Chair of the CLOCKSS Board of Directors. "Adding another global partner to the network further solidifies CLOCKSS leadership in providing a cost-sensitive and effective long-term archiving solution that services the entire scholarly community."
From The New York Times article, "A Tool to Verify Digital Records, Even as Technology Shifts"
January 26, 2009
"To that end, another computer scientist, Brewster Kahle, founded the Internet Archive in 1996 in an effort to preserve a complete record of the World Wide Web and other digital documents. Similarly, in 2000 librarians at Stanford University created LOCKSS, or Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe, to preserve journals in the digital age, by spreading digital copies of documents through an international community of libraries via the Internet."
Read the entire New York Times article here .
Vicky Reich Kicks off NISO's Webinar Series
January 9, 2009
NISO (National Information Standards Organization) presents its 2009 webinar series, beginning on January 14, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EST, with Digital Preservation: Current Efforts.
Vicky's talk, "CLOCKSS, A Global Archive: Libraries and Publishers Preserving the Past for the Future," will cover why the academic publishing and research communities have embraced CLOCKSS as a long-term preservation solution.
To attend the event, please visit the NISO webinar webpage .
Announcing the Alabama Digital Preservation Network
December 17, 2008
The Network of Alabama Academic Libraries recently completed a two-year National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and successfully developed a low-cost, low-maintenance, sustainable, geographically distributed digital preservation solution. The project participants established a private network to archive locally created digital files using LOCKSS technology. The Alabama Digital Preservation Network ADPNnet maintains LOCKSS servers at the Alabama Department of Archives and History; Auburn University; Spring Hill College; Troy University; The University of Alabama; Mervyn H. Sterne Library at University of Alabama at Birmingham; and the University of North Alabama. Any Alabama repository with publicly-available digital content may use ADPNet for its preservation archive. For more information, contact Sue O. Medina, Network of Alabama Academic Libraries, sue.medina@ache.alabama.gov or call 334-242-2211.
Springer helps launch CLOCKSS archive
December 3, 2008
Springer Science+Business Media, publisher of one of the world’s most comprehensive online collections of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works, announces a partnership with the community-governed archive cooperative CLOCKSS to preserve Springer content in the CLOCKSS global archive. Springer publishes over 1,700 journals and more than 5,500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook collection worldwide. Springer is a founding member of CLOCKSS.
The CLOCKSS archive allows research libraries and scholarly publishers, who launched CLOCKSS as a pilot program, to preserve and store its electronic content. Once ingested, the e-content is kept safe and secure in a dark archive until it is triggered and the CLOCKSS Board determines that the content should be copied from the archive and made freely available to all, regardless of prior subscription. Due to the success of the pilot program, the founding members unanimously agreed to incorporate and invite others to participate in CLOCKSS.
Announcing the U.S. Government Documents Private LOCKSS Network
October 17, 2008
We are pleased to announce the launch of the United States Government Documents Private LOCKSS Network (PLN). Twelve libraries, working with Carl Malamud’s http://public.resource.org site, will be harvesting and preserving this critical content in a distributed digital preservation system. First to be preserved are the GPO documents hosted at http://bulk.resource.org with other collections to follow.
The "USDocs" PLN replicates key aspects of the United States Federal Depository System. The content is held in geographically distributed sites and replicated many times. Citizens have oversight and responsibility for the long-term care and maintenance of the content. All these characteristics mean the content will be preserved so that any alteration of the content (either deliberate or accidental) will be detected and repaired. For all documents, preservation in a tamper-evident environment is important, but for government documents, this is essential. Read more: Private LOCKSS Networks.
On a Mission: Daniel Cornwall, Alaska State Library
March 15, 2008
Library Journal's "Mover and Shaker" Dan Cornwall, Head of Information Services, Alaska State Library, entrusted LOCKSS technology to safeguard Alaska's state documents. Read about it here.
Vicky Reich, LOCKSS Director and co-founder, honored with the 2008 Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award
February 22, 2008
The LOCKSS Program is proud to announce that Vicky Reich is the recipient of the 2008 Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award in recognition of her distinguished and ongoing contributions to the field of digital preservation. Vicky's leadership role in the development and adoption of digital preservation solutions like LOCKSS and CLOCKSS ensures the accessibility of serial publications and other digital content for future generations. Read the press release here.
PsychiatryOnline.com Textbook to Be Preserved Via LOCKSS
February 19, 2008
LOCKSS is a unique digital preservation solution that enables libraries to easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copy of authorized e-content. LOCKSS Alliance members who subscribe to the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, Fourth Edition at PsychiatryOnline.com will have access to this e-book in perpetuity. The Fourth Edition of the Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry is being made available for LOCKSS preservation in conjunction with the March 2008 release of the new Fifth Edition to current subscribers at http://www.PsychiatryOnline.com, the book-and-journal portal from APPI.
"We are thrilled to support APPI in its endeavor to preserve for future generations, not simply its world-class e-journals on the LOCKSS system, but also this important digital textbook. Through these actions, APPI helps libraries fulfill their role as custodians of scholarly content," says Vicky Reich, LOCKSS Director.
“We feel lucky to have the LOCKSS system as a preservation solution,” says Pam Harley, Director of e-Publishing Strategy at APPI, “and to be able to extend their innovative and collaborative approach beyond our journals to our key online textbooks, making sure they remain accessible for generations to come.”
