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 ---- 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 ---- 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 ---- 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/ ---- 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 ---- 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 ---- Randy S. Kiefer Executive Director CLOCKSS Archive