Clockss: Digital preservation services run by academic publishers and libraries
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- CLOCKSS is a global leader in digital preservation services, ensuring the long-term survival of digital scholarship.
- It is a community-led collaboration between academic publishers and research libraries worldwide.
- CLOCKSS preserves books, journals, and digital collections indefinitely using award-winning LOCKSS technology.
- Content is preserved in 12 archive nodes located at leading research libraries globally.
- CLOCKSS assigns Creative Commons Open Access licenses to all triggered publications, ensuring permanent open access.
- The archive safeguards against digital loss causes like human error, computer attacks, and organizational failure.
- CLOCKSS has preserved 61.4 million journal articles, 555,650 books, and made 79 titles open access.
- It operates with 12 mirror repository sites, supported by 300 libraries and 656 participating publishers.
- CLOCKSS is a financially secure, independent non-profit organization governed by a Board of libraries and publishers.