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CLOCKSS adds its 12th archive node at Humboldt University, Berlin

September 29, 2010, Stanford, CA - CLOCKSS is very pleased to

announce that it has added a twelfth library to its network of
worldwide distributed archive nodes. The new node is hosted at
Humboldt University, in Berlin, Germany. The Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has provided funding for the
University to represent Germany in this important international initiative.

Humboldt University joins the CLOCKSS board, and will work

alongside all participating publishers and libraries to decide on policies
and best practices for the archive. At Humboldt, both
the Computer and Media Service and the Berlin School for Library
and Information Science will provide the knowledge, community and
technical support necessary and look forward to be able to
contribute to long-term preservation of scholarly publications in
a larger scale.

Michael Seadle, Director of the Berlin School of Library and Information

Sciences at Humboldt University, said "At Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin,
we regard CLOCKSS as a key component of the infrastructure for
preserving scholarly content for future centuries and we are pleased to
play a role in the CLOCKSS network on behalf of the Federal Republic of
Germany."

The node at Humboldt University will store a complete version of the

CLOCKSS archive content and will use award-winning open-source
LOCKSS technology to automatically and continually check with the other
nodes, audit itself, and repair any differences. If content in the archive
becomes no longer available from any publisher ("trigger" event),
CLOCKSS will release the content and make it available for free to the
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entire world.

Gordon Tibbitts, Executive Director of CLOCKSS, said "We are

grateful to Humboldt University for taking on this important
responsibility. Joining forces with Humboldt University as our
twelfth archive node is a major step for the CLOCKSS effort to protect the
world's scholarship and keep it in the hands of scholars."

The twelve CLOCKSS archive nodes are hosted at:

Australian National University

Humboldt University
Indiana University
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Rice University
Stanford University
Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
University of Alberta
University of Edinburgh
University of Hong Kong
University of Virginia

About Humboldt University

Founded in 1810 according to the concept which Wilhelm von

Humboldt had put forward, Humboldt-Universit=E4t zu Berlin was the
"mother of all modern universities." It lives up to its history
as a reform-orientated institution by planting innovative ideas
into study, research and structure. http://www.hu-berlin.de/
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About CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) 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