Brill becomes 100th publisher to participate in the CLOCKSS Archive
Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) -- 3 October 2012
Brill and the CLOCKSS Archive are delighted to announce that Brill has become the 100th publisher to participate in the CLOCKSS Archive.
Brill will preserve their ejournals and ebooks in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, Brill has committed to the preservation of their ejournals and ebooks. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a "trigger event" and ensures an author's work will be maximally accessible and useful over time.
Brill’s Vice President of Business Development, Sam Bruinsma, comments: “In our conversations with key customers worldwide about our online resources the subject of long-term accessibility is always on the agenda. Being around for nearly 330 years does help to gain some trust in this respect, but participating in CLOCKSS is generally perceived as an even better guarantee.”
CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds: “This agreement is a significant milestone for the CLOCKSS Archive, one that underscores the value proposition of the archive and the large variety of publishers that participate in it. Brill, founded in 1683, has a rich history and a strong international focus. We are grateful, as Brill joins the CLOCKSS Archive, for its generous willingness to preserve its ejournals and ebooks in a way that secures them for the long-term good of scholars worldwide.”
About Brill (brill.com)
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, BRILL is a leading international academic publisher in the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, contemporary History and History of War studies, Biblical and Religious Studies, Slavic Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, Human Rights and Public International Law. With offices in Leiden and Boston, BRILL today publishes more than 175 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year. All publications are available in both print and electronic form. BRILL also markets a large number of research collections and databases with primary source material. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. BRILL is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please visit www.brill.com.
About CLOCKSS (clockss.org)
The CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) Archive is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community.