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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:59:42 +0000
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10 December 2018
CLOCKSS Announces Preservation of University of Michigan Press Ebook
Collection on Fulcrum
Today the CLOCKSS Archive announced that the University of Michigan Press
and CLOCKSS have signed an Agreement for the preservation of the e-books in
University of Michigan Press's forthcoming UMP Ebook Collection which will
be hosted on the innovative Fulcrum publishing platform. Initially this
will include 1000+ backlist books from University of Michigan Press and
around 80 new titles a year for direct sale to libraries. More backlist
titles will be added during the next few years and the agreement will be
expanded to include other publishers hosted on Fulcrum, including the
groundbreaking open access publishing program from Lever Press.
CLOCKSS and Michigan are both committed to solving the issues surrounding
the publication and preservation of new forms of digital scholarship. The
Fulcrum platform supports e-books with enhanced features, such as A
Mid-Republican House from Gabii and Animal Acts.
“Enhanced e-books, and interactive scholarly works, can include dynamic,
interactive, and media-rich components that present special challenges for
preservation,” said CLOCKSS Executive Director Craig Van Dyck. “We look
forward to continuing to work with Michigan and other stakeholders to
address these issues, so these emerging forms of scholarship can find a
sustainable publishing model, and be preserved for the long-term.”
"We're excited to be partnering with CLOCKSS not only to provide a robust
preservation solution for our text-first EPUB3 and PDF titles, but also to
push the envelope for enhanced media-rich ebooks and interactive scholarly
works," added Charles Watkinson, Director of University of Michigan Press
and Associate University Librarian for Publishing at University of Michigan
Library.
About CLOCKSS
A collaboration of the world’s leading academic publishers and research
libraries, CLOCKSS (www.clockss.org) provides a sustainable dark archive to
ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly content. CLOCKSS
(Controlled LOCKSS) employs a unique approach to archiving (Lots of Copies
Keep Stuff Safe) that was initiated by Stanford Libraries in 1999. Digital
content is stored in the CLOCKSS archive with no user access unless a
“trigger” event occurs. The LOCKSS technology regularly checks the validity
of the stored data and preserves it for the long term. CLOCKSS operates 12
archive nodes at leading academic institutions worldwide, preserving the
authoritative versions of over 30 million digital journal articles, 25,000
serials, and 80,000 book titles, and a growing collection of supplementary
materials and metadata information. So far 53 titles have been triggered
and made available from the CLOCKSS Archive via open access. A strong and
secure organization, CLOCKSS is supported by 300 supporting libraries and
260 participating publishers.
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