This week’s The Chronicle of Higher Education has a short write-up of the LOCKSS project’s new journals division.
A coalition of journal publishers and university libraries is starting an experimental archive of online journals that will be held in reserve in case a journal’s publisher goes out of business or is otherwise unable to continue providing online access to its journals.The pilot program uses peer-to-peer archiving software developed at Stanford University, called Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe, or Lockss. The journal archive is called Controlled Lockss, or Clockss.
Due to weak orphan works copyright exemptions, note that CLOCKSS operates only at the pleasure of the volunteering publishers. LOCKSS and similar projects could someday be all that halts the onset of a Digital Dark Ages.
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