SAGE signs agreements with CLOCKSS and Portico to Preserve E-Journal Content

["Johns, Valerie" <Valerie.Johns@sagepub.com>]

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SAGE Publications, Inc.
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SAGE signs agreements with CLOCKSS and Portico to Preserve 
E-Journal Content

Thousand Oaks, California, London, United Kingdom, and New Delhi, 
India (May 8, 2006) - As a publisher of over 400 scholarly 
journals, SAGE Publications is committed to ensuring the 
long-term stability of its valuable journal content so future 
generations of scholars, researchers and student will always have 
access to it.  In order to accomplish this goal, SAGE is 
participating in CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS - Lots of Copies Keep 
Stuff Safe) and has signed an agreement with Portico, a new, 
not-for-profit electronic-archiving service launched last year.

In the event of a disaster that would prevent the delivery of 
content, CLOCKSS will assure that access to the journals is 
maintained. A joint advisory board, made up of societies, 
publishers and libraries, will determine if the content is 
orphaned and whether it should be made publicly available. Since 
it's collectively managed, publishers are ensured that content is 
controlled and no one entity has authority over orphaned digital 
materials in the system.  During the two-year pilot, participants 
will collect and analyze data for use in developing a proposal 
for a full-scale archiving model. As part of a longer-term 
strategy to permanently preserve published work, CLOCKSS will 
report the results to the research community and begin a dialogue 
about a global infrastructure to ensure preservation of all past, 
present, and future scholarly content.

Portico will provide an ongoing, permanent online archive of SAGE 
journals, ensuring that an accessible copy of each issue will 
exist for decades to come. The service also offers the migration 
of the content into future technological formats as they are 
developed. Portico's archiving service meets library demand for a 
trusted, third-party archive and perpetual access while providing 
SAGE with insurance against loss of the journal content.

"It's important that SAGE preserves our content using a variety 
of archiving solutions," commented Alison Mudditt, Executive Vice 
President of SAGE's Higher Education Group. "We're pleased to add 
both CLOCKSS and Portico's specialized service to our other 
archiving agreement with the KB (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the 
National Library of the Netherlands) ensuring that access to our 
journals is not only protected indefinitely, but will still be 
accessible as future technologies are developed."

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About SAGE

SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of 
journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, 
and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and 
educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, 
researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas 
including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, 
technology and medicine. SAGE Publications, a privately owned 
corporation, has principal offices in Thousand Oaks, California, 
London, United Kingdom, and New Delhi, India. 
www.sagepublications.com

About CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS is a collaborative, community initiative to build a 
trusted large dark archive. The CLOCKSS governance and 
administration structure is distributed to insure no one-single 
organization controls oversight of the archive or has the power 
to compromise the long-term viability of the content's safety. 
CLOCKSS is a decentralized and safe solution to long-term 
archiving based on the LOCKSS technical infrastructure. Access to 
archive content will be granted in response to a trigger event 
(for example, when content is orphaned or abandoned or a 
long-term business interruption), reviewed by a group of people 
all of whom will be working on behalf of the broader community. 
Our goal is to build an archive where content, when accessible, 
will be available to all. http://www.lockss.org/clockss

About Portico

Portico is a new, not-for-profit electronic-archiving service 
established in response to the library community's need for a 
robust, reliable means to preserve electronic scholarly journals. 
Portico was initiated by JSTOR (www.jstor.org) and has been 
developed with the initial support of Ithaka (www.ithaka.org), 
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (www.mellon.org), and the Library 
of Congress (www.loc.gov). Portico's mission is to preserve 
scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure 
that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, 
researchers and students. www.portico.org

Valerie Johns
Senior Marketing Manager

SAGE Publications
2455 Teller Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320

T:  805.410.7778
F:  805.410.7004
E:  valerie.johns@sagepub.com