Adam Rusbridge, Meeting of the UK LOCKSS Alliance' 22nd October 2009.

1. Preserving our digital heritage
The community taking control
Adam Rusbridge
Meeting of the UK LOCKSS Alliance
22nd October 2009
www.clockss.org

2. The CLOCKSS Archive
• International community-governed archive
– Librarians and publishers working together
• Content held at libraries, world-wide
– Geographically, geologically, politically distributed
• Free access to abandoned/orphaned content
• Low fees, raise endowment
www.clockss.org

3. The CLOCKSS Archive
• International community-governed archive
– Librarians and publishers working together
• Content held at libraries, world-wide
– Geographically, geologically, politically distributed
• Free access to abandoned/orphaned content
• Low fees, raise endowment
www.clockss.org

4. Governance Structure
• The archive is managed by its beneficiaries
– Board of Directors
– Advisory Council
• Publishers and librarians have equal say
– Strategic direction and priorities; an active role
– When to trigger content
• 2007 ALA ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration
CLOCKSS is a tax-exempt, 501(c)3, not-for-profit organization
www.clockss.org

5. Governing Board
American Medical Association Australian National University
American Physiological Society OCLC
bepress Edinburgh University
Elsevier
Indiana University
IOP Publishing
Japan National Institute of
Nature Publishing Group
Informatics
Oxford University Press
SAGE Publications
New York Public Library
Springer Rice University
Taylor & Francis Stanford University
Wiley-Blackwell University of Alberta
University of Hong Kong
University of Virginia
www.clockss.org

6. Publisher Participants
* American Academy of Pediatrics * American
Institute of Physics * American Medical
Association * American Physiological Society
*Association of Computing Machinery *
bepress *Cambridge University Press *
Elsevier * IOP Publishing * Nature Publishing
Group* Oxford University Press *Rockefeller
University Press * Royal Society * Royal
Society of Chemistry * SAGE * Springer *
Taylor & Francis * Wiley-Blackwell
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7. Advisory Council
• You!
• Each supporting library has one delegate
• Voice in CLOCKSS Archive governance
– Policies and practices, including
– Content “trigger events”
– Exposure to and influence on publishers
– Professional leadership, exposure, and advancement
• Meet at least yearly
– Virtually, by geographic regions to start
www.clockss.org

8. The CLOCKSS Archive
• International community-governed archive
– Librarians and publishers working together
• Content held at libraries, world-wide
– Geographically, geologically, politically distributed
• Free access to abandoned/orphaned content
• Low fees, raise endowment
www.clockss.org

9. Private LOCKSS Network
Best Research - Proceedings of the 19th ACM
Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
www.clockss.org

10. Decentralized
Preservation
Libraries preserving the content; Value of libraries
as memory organizations realized on a global scale
www.clockss.org

11. The CLOCKSS Archive
• International community-governed archive
– Librarians and publishers working together
• Content held at libraries, world-wide
– Geographically, geologically, politically distributed
• Free access to abandoned/orphaned content
• Low fees, raise endowment
www.clockss.org

12. Serving The Worldʼs Scholars
• Archived content, not available from any
publisher (“triggered content”)
• Made freely available to all on the Web
– Creative Commons license
• 3 titles now open access
– Support CLOCKSS and contribute to growing
open access corpus
– Help us keep open access content, open access
www.clockss.org

13. Open Access “triggered” Content
• Graft
– Sage
• Volume 4 (2001) - Volume 6 (2003)
• Auto/Biography
– Sage
• Volume 12 - 14
• Brief Treatment & Crisis Intervention
– OUP
• Volume 1 (2001) - volume 8 (2008)
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14. Hosted From EDINA & Stanford
Facilitates archive
interoperability through
time & across different
copyright regimes.
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15. Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention
• Antrim • Leeds
Birmingham Leicester
Bournemouth Liverpool
Bristol London
Cambridge Luton
Manchester
Cardiff
Merthyr Tydfil
Coventry Newcastle Upon Tyne
Buxton Weston-super-Mare
Chesterfield Northampton
Durham Nottingham
Brighton Worksop
Edinburgh Banbury
Gloucester Oxford
Winchester Peterborough
Watford Portsmouth
Cowes Reading
Slough
Folkestone
Tamworth
Kingston Upon Hull
Stoke-on-Trent
www.clockss.org

16. The CLOCKSS Archive
• International community-governed archive
– Librarians and publishers working together
• Content held at libraries, world-wide
– Geographically, geologically, politically distributed
• Free access to abandoned/orphaned content
• Low fees, raise endowment
www.clockss.org

17. Library Participation Fees
• Join and become a 'Supporting Library'.
– No technical contribution required
• Next step will be UK JISC Banded Figures
Materials Budgets Annual Contribution
Under $1 million $450
$1 - 2 million $600
$2 - 3 million $1,200
$3 - 4 million $1,800
$4 - 5 million $2,400
$5 - 7 million $3,000
$7 - 9 million $4,200
$9 - 11 million $5,400
$11 - 13 million $6,600
$13 - 15 million $7,800
$15 - 20 million $9,000
$20 - 25 million $12,000
Over $25 million $15,000
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18. Why participate?
• UKLOCKSS and CLOCKSS separate payment from access and
put the libraries in control.
– UKLOCKSS is all about you, your collections, your scholars.
– CLOCKSS is a global initiative where you have influence on the global stage.
• Together, the two initiatives ensure all publishers are covered,
both large and small.
• They ensure that content is in your custody and control - locally
with UKLOCKSS; globally with CLOCKSS.
• Open access ensures that libraries are the benefactor
• Governance model allows libraries to take active leadership
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19. Consortia Discounts
Members Joining Discount
1 to 9 5%
10 to 19 10%
20 or more 15%
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20. Summary
• Community-governed archive
– Librarians and publishers working together
• Free, open access to archived content not available
from any publisher(“triggered”)
– CC license
– Keep open access content, open access over time
– Contributing to growing open access corpus
• Archive node libraries
– Distributed geographically, geologically, politically
– Libraries preserving content, enforcing libraries global role
• Low fees, raising an endowment
www.clockss.org

21. Questions Welcome!
Thank you.
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