From: Kim Smilay <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 02:09:19 -0400

15 April 2013

The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with
SciELO to 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.  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.

“We are very pleased to be part of the CLOCKSS Archive community.
“says Abel Packer, SciELO / FAPESP Program Coordinator. “We feel
secure that SciELO’s ejournal and ebook content, which is an important
part of the scholarly communication flows of Latin America, Portugal,
Spain and South Africa, will be preserved by CLOCKSS for this
generation and for those to come. Significant investments have been
made in the SciELO Network over the years by research agencies with
the objective to increase the visibility, access and impact of
research from emerging and developing countries. It is critical to all
of us, and to researchers in particular, that the results of this
investment be preserved.”

CLOCKSS Executive Director Randy S. Kiefer adds, “The CLOCKSS Archive
welcomes SciELO’s ejournals and ebooks with their strong regional
coverage of scientific and technical information, into the community's
archive.  The large number of publishers managed by SciELO provides a
wonderfully broad spectrum of scholarly communications. By archiving
with CLOCKSS, SciELO has ensured that the scholarship in their
publications will continue to be available to as wide an audience as
possible, now and in the future for the long-term good of scholars
worldwide."

About SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online: Operating since
1998, SciELO is known and respected globally for indexing and
publishing peer-reviewed Open Access academic ejournals to promote the
advancement of research by facilitating the communication of its
results. SciELO’s goals have always been to increase the visibility,
access and impact of research from emerging and developing countries.
It is a Program of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
developed through a decentralized network of open access journals
collections covering 17 different countries, mainly from Latin America
and Caribbean but also including Portugal, Spain and South Africa.  As
of March 2013 the SciELO Network publishes more than 1000 journals
with over 420 thousand journal articles and other communications. Each
day an average of over one million articles are downloaded from the
SciELO sites. SciELO Books, the new ebook initiative, follows the same
principles as the SciELO journals.

SciELO ejournals: www.scielo.org ; SciELO eBooks: books.scielo.org.

Randy S. Kiefer, Executive Director
Kim Smilay, Director, Publisher Relations
The CLOCKSS Archive
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