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CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) 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.

Country: USA

Operating Details

Status: Operational

Archive Type: Digital

Format Archived: Journals

Selection: CLOCKSS preserves Web-based scholarly publications in a dark archive. When a title becomes unavailable ("triggered") it becomes accessible through CLOCKSS. The title is openly accessible via two mirrored websites.

Retention Period: Permanent

Ownership: Not specified

This page was last updated 04/21/2024