Dark Archive to Open Access:
A CLOCKSS Trigger Event
Victoria Reich
Director, LOCKSS Program
Stanford University
David S.H. Rosenthal
Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program
Stanford University
Libraries and publishers have joined forces in an initiative called CLOCKSS, providing leadership and the supporting technology, to ensure reliable, long-term access to scholarly e-content. The CLOCKSS archive preserves Web scholarly published content at geographically-dispersed nodes located at major research libraries. Archived copies remain "dark" until a trigger event and the CLOCKSS Board votes to "light up" the content by copying the content from the archive to designated hosting organizations.
The Web-published content of the journal Graft: Organ and Cell Transplantation (SAGE Publications) has been exported from the CLOCKSS dark archive, and is available to the world from CLOCKSS hosting platforms at Stanford University and the University of Edinburgh. Released under a Creative Commons license, this content is free to all, without any prior subscription, fee, or registration.
When SAGE announced that it was discontinuing Graft, this became the first real-world test for the CLOCKSS system and its procedures. This CNI briefing session will cover:
