From: Randy Kiefer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:42:39 -0500
The CLOCKSS Archive Is Pleased to Announce the Participation of Four
New Publishers in Its Digital Preservation Archive: ALPSP, Rocky
Mountain Geology, Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche Trento, and Vilnius
Gediminas Technical University Press (VGTU Press).
Full announcements can be found at http://www.clockss.org/clockss/News
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ALPSP
ALPSP Chief Executive, Audrey McCulloch, commented, “We’re delighted
to archive our content with CLOCKSS, to ensure the long term
preservation of our journal, Learned Publishing and our ebooks. Our
content is a highly regarded record of the development of scholarly
communication and will serve as an important archive for future
generations.”
About: ALPSP was formed in 1972 and is the international organization
for non-profit publishers. It has a broad and diverse membership of
over 300 organizations in 37 countries who collectively publish over
half of the world’s total active journals as well as books, databases
and other products. ALPSP's mission is to connect, train and inform
the scholarly and professional publishing community and to play an
active part in shaping the future of academic and scholarly
communication. http://www.alpsp.org
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Rocky Mountain Geology
“We are excited to enter into this partnership with CLOCKSS,” says RMG
Managing Editor Brendon Orr. “RMG authors—past, current, and
future—will be pleased to know that worldwide access to their
published research is ensured for generations to come.”
About RMG: This high-impact, scholarly journal, published by the
University of Wyoming, is an important resource for professional earth
scientists. The high-quality, refereed articles report original
research by top specialists in all aspects of geology and paleontology
in the greater Rocky Mountain region. http://rmg.geoscienceworld.org
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Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche Trento
Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche Trento CEO Michelangelo Sebastiani adds,
“We decided to join the CLOKSS project with enthusiasm because we
consider essential and compulsory, for anyone, preserving and
disseminating knowledge in any form. Ad maiora”.
About: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche Trento is part of the publishing
group Tangram Srl of Trento. It’s a young publishing house that is
emerging for the quality of its publications in the scientific
community. http://edizioni-tangram.it/
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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press (VGTU Press)
VGTU Press director Eleonora Dagiene says, “It is an honor for VGTU
Press to become a partner with CLOCKSS archive. It is very important
to be able to provide permanent accessibility to electronic ebooks and
ejournals and we are happy, that our partnership with CLOCKSS archive
will strengthen the reliability of VGTU Press in our clients’ eyes”.
About : VGTU Press is one of the biggest and most advanced Lithuanian
academic publishers. It publishes around 100 study publications
(textbooks and other study publications) per year in both print and
electronic versions. VGTU Press also publishes 19 peer-reviewed
research journals: 8 of them are of technological and natural
sciences, 5 – social sciences, 5 – humanitarian sciences and 1 is
interdisciplinary. All of the VGTU journals are indexed by ProQuest,
EBSCO, GALE and IndexCopernicus; 13 of them by Scopus; and as many as
8 journals are indexed by Web of Science and other databases
well-known to researchers and specialists.
VGTU Press: http://leidykla.vgtu.lt.
Journals published by VGTU Press:
http://leidykla.vgtu.lt/en/research-publications/research-journals.html.
eBooks published by VGTU Press: http://www.ebooks.vgtu.lt
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About CLOCKSS:
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. http://www.clockss.org
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Randy S. Kiefer
Executive Director
CLOCKSS Archive
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