Online Computer Library Center to Participate in CLOCKSS Initiative

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Online Computer Library Center to Participate in CLOCKSS
Initiative

Joins expansive list of libraries and publishers involved in
the
community archive



PALO ALTO, California, June 23, 2006- Online Computer
Library Center
(OCLC) is the newest member to join CLOCKSS (Controlled
LOCKSS-Lots of
Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a not-for-profit community approach
to securing
access to electronic scholarly content for the long term.
More than
53,000 libraries in 96 countries and territories around the
world use
OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve
library
materials.

"The partnership between OCLC and CLOCKSS is a natural
combination and
aligns with our common goal to ensure the perpetual
preservation of our
scholarly materials," said Jay Jordan, President &
Chief Executive
Officer, OCLC. "Although there is much work ahead of
us, we look forward
to establishing a sustainable model of preservation that
meets the needs
of OCLC's membership and the worldwide research
community."

OCLC's partnership with CLOCKSS coincides with a recent
contract from
the Library of Congress to the CLOCKSS partnership for
collaboration
with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and
Preservation
Program.

"We are pleased that the OCLC has joined CLOCKSS and
reinforced the
library community's support of this important
initiative," commented
Gordon Tibbitts, President, Blackwell Publishing.
"Their participation
furthers our objective to share governance in all decisions
and ensure
that no single entity can compromise the long-term integrity
of the
archive."

Developed through a community-based and open process that
ensures
complete transparency, the CLOCKSS partnership uses the
robust
technology underpinning the acclaimed LOCKSS Program.
CLOCKSS provides
additional functionality to that of the use of the LOCKSS
system, which
is widely known as a technology to help preserve a
library's local
collections in the long term. CLOCKSS aims to provide a
long-term global
archiving solution that will serve the joint library and
publisher
communities in the event of a long-term business
interruption or in
making orphaned or abandoned works readily available to the
scholarly
community.

Commented Vicky Reich, Director of LOCKSS Program, Stanford
University
Libraries, "The CLOCKSS board welcomes OCLC as a full
partner in our
work to build an archive that will make available materials
accessible
to the broad community."

Participating Members of CLOCKSS

*         Publishers - American Medical Association,
American Chemical
Society, American Physiological Society, Blackwell
Publishing, Elsevier,
Institute of Physics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Nature
Publishing Group,
Oxford University Press, SAGE Publications, Springer, Taylor
and
Francis,

*         Libraries - Indiana University, New York Public
Library, OCLC,
Rice University, Stanford University, University of
Edinburgh,
University of Virginia

About CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS, or Controlled LOCKSS is a community-based
initiative to build a
trusted dark archive in order to protect online scholarly
content from
catastrophic events and other long-term interruptions.
Management of the
process and the content is exercised by a joint board of
publishers and
librarians to ensure that all decisions are community-based.
 The
initiative is implementing and evaluating both social and
technical
models to support a large dark archive that is both
fail-safe and has an
acceptable process for providing continuing access for
orphaned
materials over a two-year period. During this time the
initiative will
work to build a full-scale production system. The work of
the initiative
is transparent and will be independently assessed, with
findings
reported to the wider community.  For more information about
CLOCKSS,
visit www.lockss.org/clockss

About OCLC

Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC
Online Computer
Library Center is a nonprofit organization that provides
computer-based
cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent and
preservation
services to 53,000 libraries in 96 countries and
territories.  OCLC and
its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain
WorldCat, the
world's richest online resource for finding library
materials.  For more
information, visit www.oclc.org.

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