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CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS
United States of America
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About

Launched: 2008
Record Updated: Nov 07, 2024
Digital preservation service
We are CLOCKSS. A community-led collaboration of academic publishers and research libraries around the world, working together to provide a sustainable online archive. Together we ensure the long-term survival of our shared intellectual heritage.
At CLOCKSS, through the services we provide to libraries and publishers and built over the award winning LOCKSS software, we instill confidence in authors, scholars, policy makers, libraries, and publishers that scholarship is safely and securely preserved for future generations.
As global leaders in digital preservation, we ensure that all books, journals, and digital collections entrusted to CLOCKSS are protected and preserved indefinitely.
CLOCKSS is the only digital archive that assigns Creative Commons Open Access licenses to all content we make available, in order to ensure it always remains open and available to everyone.
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Mission

At CLOCKSS our ethos is simple: we exist to preserve the hard work and knowledge of scholars.
The world is unpredictable. Geo-political, technological, economic, and environmental change can create challenges in all aspects of society. Research and knowledge have already been lost. Digital preservation should be an essential part of every library and publisher’s disaster recovery and sustainability plan. Through our digital archive services and active management, CLOCKSS helps you mitigate risks.
Academic books, academic journals, and other digital collections preserved in our digital archive can be retrieved intact after disruptions to inform future generations.
Digital preservation requires active digital archive management to ensure the content is complete and remains healthy over time. Digitized content, back-up copies, and content in storage can deteriorate, and so do not offer the same guarantees that a long-term digital preservation archive does.

Key Achievements

We are entrusted to preserve more than 55 million journal articles and 500k books plus an array of related code, data, images, and videos by organizations in more than 65 countries.
We hold the highest accreditation score ever awarded to a digital preservation service by the Center for Research Libraries.

Technical Attributes

Maintenance Status

Actively Maintained

Open Code Repository

Implemented
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Technical Documentation

Implemented
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Open Product Roadmap

Implemented
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Technical Attribute Statements

Technology Readiness Level

  • Actual system proven in operational environment

Code Licenses Used

  • BSD licenses

Content Licensing

  • Creative commons licenses

Standards

Persistent Identifier

  • Research Organization Registry

Preservation

  • OAIS

Metrics

KBART files sent to the KEEPERS Registry on a weekly basis.

Hosting Options

  • Through solution or third party vendor

Integrations

An array of publishing and hosting platforms

Policies & Governance

Policies

Bylaws

Implemented
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Commitment to Equity & Inclusion

Implemented
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Privacy Policy

Implemented
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Web Accessibility Statement

In Progress

Governance Structure & Processes

Implemented
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Transparent Pricing and Cost Expectations

Implemented
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Policy Statements

Board Structure

  • Advisory board or steering committee

Board Level

*Select and remove Officers and Agents and set their Terms of Reference
*Agree CLOCKSS strategy
*Ensure that there are funds to deliver the strategy; set and track the budget
*Agree how to invest CLOCKSS money, or to incur debt
*Check that the strategy is being delivered, and request corrective action where necessary
*Decide the level of risk that is right for CLOCKSS, require staff to identify risk and propose mitigating activities, agree and monitor this activity
*Prepare the annual accounts and report, with support from staff
*Act in the interests of CLOCKSS, not another individual or organization

Community Governance

  • Formal

Additional Information

Organizational History

CLOCKSS was spun out from Stanford University and the LOCKSS Program as an independent 501(c)(3) in 2008.

Organizational Structure

Business or Ownership Model

Non-profit organization

Full-time Staff

1-5

Volunteers

0

Non-profit Status

501(c)3

Current Affiliations

n/a

Funding

Primary Funding Source

  • Program service revenue

Financial Reporting Level

  • Both

Funding Needs

We would like to extend our preservation services to smaller publishers around the world, and to extend our collections to include more diverse and inclusive perspectives.
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