Over 200 Publishers Participating in LOCKSS

["Amy Kohrman" <akohrman@stanford.edu>]

The LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) Program is pleased 
to announce that best-of-breed scholarly journals from over two 
hundred publishers, including Annual Reviews, BMJ Publishing 
Group, and the Oxford University Press, will be preserved in 
LOCKSS.  LOCKSS, developed at Stanford University Libraries, 
provides the tools, services, and publisher support that ensure 
libraries access to their web-based subscriptions in perpetuity. 
By joining LOCKSS, publishers of the New England Journal of 
Medicine, AnthroSource, and others, have granted permission to 
LOCKSS member libraries to preserve an electronic copy of their 
subscribed content locally in a "LOCKSS box."  When an article or 
book can no longer be accessed on the publisher's website, LOCKSS 
libraries will be able to serve it to their readers in real-time 
-- today and for years to come.

  "A core library mission is to build and perpetuate collections. 
The LOCKSS system helps them in their task by allowing the 
library to collect, preserve, and serve to authorized readers its 
own copy of the web-based content when the publisher's copy is 
unavailable ," explains LOCKSS Director Vicky Reich.  "The high 
level of publisher participation in LOCKSS enables libraries to 
offer tomorrow's readers access to more of today's publications."

Any library can participate in LOCKSS.  To do so, they must set 
up a LOCKSS box which runs on a basic PC and free, open-source 
software.  (Watch how simple it is to set up a LOCKSS box at: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wdcnXrQkaI .)  By joining the 
LOCKSS Alliance, members can benefit from access to premium 
content already preserved by other member libraries and can 
suggest new titles for preservation most relevant for their 
community.

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For the complete list of publishers participating in LOCKSS, 
please visit http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Publishers_and_Titles .

For more information about LOCKSS, please visit www.lockss.org 
<http://www.lockss.org/>

Amy Kohrman
Marketing Manager, LOCKSS/CLOCKSS
akohrman@stanford.edu