From: Kim Smilay <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:17:59 -0400

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) announced the completion of an
eight-month audit of the CLOCKSS Archive and has certified the CLOCKSS
Archive as a trustworthy digital repository.  CLOCKSS is the only
organization to earn a perfect score of 5 in the Technologies,
Technical Infrastructure, and Security category. CLOCKSS also attained
the highest score received by any organization that has undergone this
independent audit.

A team of prestigious digital preservation experts conducted the audit
with reference to generally accepted best practices in the management
of digital systems; the interests of its community of research
libraries; the practices and needs of scholarly researchers in the
humanities, sciences, and social sciences in the United States and
Canada; and ISO and National Archives and Records Administration
standards. The purpose of the audit was to obtain assurance that
CLOCKSS provides, and will likely continue to provide, services
adequate to those needs without material flaws or defects and as
described in CLOCKSS’s public disclosures.

“On behalf of the CLOCKSS board, I would like to thank CRL for its
certification of the CLOCKSS service, and for thoughtful suggestions
about how we can continue to develop and improve,” said Alicia Wise,
Publisher Co-Chair of the CLOCKSS Board.  “The 725 library supporters
and 200 publisher partners in CLOCKSS already value the terrific team
that delivers the CLOCKSS service, and this independent certification
should inspire others committed to the long-term preservation of
quality academic content to reach out and learn more.”

The certification is based upon a site visit and sampling of triggered
archives content, and upon the review of information gathered by CRL
and its Certification Advisory Panel and documents and documentation
provided by CLOCKSS. CRL’s analysis was guided by the criteria
included in the Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification
checklist, and other metrics developed by CRL on the basis of its
analyses of digital repositories.

"CRL’s review found the CLOCKSS approach, with its simple and flexible
technical architecture, to be particularly well suited to the rapidly
evolving landscape of  e-journal publishing and scholarly practice”
said Bernard Reilly, President of CRL.

“The CLOCKSS Archives is very pleased with the results of the audit,
especially the highest score in the Technology category. Our
partnership with the LOCKSS team at Stanford has afforded us a robust
platform from which to deliver our preservation activities,” states
Randy S. Kiefer, Executive Director of the CLOCKSS Archive.

This follows an announcement earlier this year that Victoria Reich and
David S. H. Rosenthal, the co-founders of the LOCKSS technology, have
been named the winners of the 2014 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for
Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. The
CLOCKSS Archive is a private LOCKSS network.

"The Stanford University Library's LOCKSS Program is extremely pleased
that CRL’s rigorous examination provides reassurance to the publisher
community, to the library community, and to the greater academic
community that the LOCKSS technology is of the highest quality for
long-term preservation and continuing access” said Vicky Reich,
Executive Director of LOCKSS.