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."
"We are pleased AIP has joined the CLOCKSS community. By depositing its vital content into the CLOCKSS archive, AIP is ensuring its materials will be available for future scholars," notes CLOCKSS Co-Chair and Berkeley Electronic Press' CEO, Gordon Tibbitts. "And through its participation on the Advisory Council, AIP is ensuring that its authors' and readers' interests are represented as CLOCKSS works to build a state-of-the-art archive."
About CLOCKSS
CLOCKSS is a joint venture between the world's leading scholarly publishers and research libraries. Its 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. Governing Libraries include the Australian National University, Indiana University, the National Institute for Informatics (Japan), New York Public Library, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Rice University, Stanford University, the University of Alberta, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Virginia. Governing Publishers include the American Medical Association, the American Physiological Society, bepress, Elsevier, IOP Publishing, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, SAGE Publications, Springer, Taylor & Francis and Wiley-Blackwell.
For More Information
For more information about CLOCKSS, please visit http://www.clockss.org/ or contact Amy Kohrman, 650-721-5838, akohrman@clockss.org.
