American Institute of Physics to secure all journals in dark archive

 

Melville, NY, June 12, 2009 — “The Amer­i­can Insti­tute of Physics (AIP) announced today that online ver­sions of all its jour­nals will soon reside in the dark archive, CLOCKSS (Con­trolled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a joint ven­ture by libraries and pub­lish­ers com­mit­ted to ensur­ing long-term access to schol­arly pub­li­ca­tions in dig­i­tal for­mat. CLOCKSS will make AIP con­tent freely avail­able in the event that AIP is no longer able to pro­vide access.” 

CLOCKSS cre­ates a secure, multi-site archive of web-published con­tent that can be tapped into to pro­vide ongo­ing access to researchers world­wide, free of charge.”

“The Amer­i­can Insti­tute of Physics is a fed­er­a­tion of 10 phys­i­cal sci­ence soci­eties rep­re­sent­ing more than 135,000 sci­en­tists, engi­neers, and edu­ca­tors and is one of the world’s largest pub­lish­ers of sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion in physics. Offer­ing full-solution pub­lish­ing ser­vices for physics sci­en­tific soci­eties and for sim­i­lar orga­ni­za­tions in sci­ence and engi­neer­ing, AIP pur­sues inno­va­tion in elec­tronic pub­lish­ing of schol­arly jour­nals. AIP pub­lishes its own

12 jour­nals (many of which have the high­est impact fac­tors in their cat­e­gory); two mag­a­zines, includ­ing its flag­ship pub­li­ca­tion Physics Today; and the AIP Con­fer­ence Pro­ceed­ings. Its online pub­lish­ing plat­form Sci­ta­tion hosts nearly two mil­lion arti­cles from more than 185 schol­arly jour­nals, and other pub­li­ca­tions of 28 learned soci­ety publishers.”

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