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SULAIR NEWS – February 4, 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Momentum Grows for Long-term Preservation Strategy of Digital Content
- New Exhibit at Hoover: Shattered Peace: The Road to World War II
- *** Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. Momentum Grows for Long-term Preservation Strategy of Digital Content
Support for the community-governed archive cooperative, CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), continues to grow as they announce the addition of the University of Alberta as its newest governing library member. The University of Alberta Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and has the second largest academic and research collection in Canada.
The CLOCKSS initiative was created in response to the growing concern that digital content purchased by libraries may not always be available due to retirement of an electronic journal or catastrophic events. CLOCKSS addresses this problem by creating a secure, multi-site archive of web-published content that can be tapped into as necessary to provide ongoing access to researchers worldwide for free.
"We are proud to welcome the University of Alberta as our first Canadian partner," says Gordon Tibbitts, CEO of bepress and Co-Chair of the CLOCKSS Board of Directors. "Adding another global partner to the network further solidifies CLOCKSS leadership in providing a cost-sensitive and effective long-term archiving solution that services the entire scholarly community."
Based at Stanford University, the not-for-profit organization is a partnership of libraries and publishers. As a governing library, the University of Alberta Libraries will operate one of the computer "CLOCKSS boxes" housed at (ultimately) 15 sites around the globe containing content contributed by publishers. This content is stored and preserved, ensuring that it is available for future use. “The University of Alberta Libraries consider CLOCKSS essential for ensuring access to the knowledge we create today far into the future,” stated Ernie Ingles, Chief Librarian and Vice Provost at the University of Alberta, “We feel that membership in this organization is a contribution to future generations.”
CLOCKSS uses LOCKSS low cost archiving software to operate its archive, making participation in the collective affordable for libraries of all sizes. LOCKSS, an ACM award winning digital preservation technology, preserves all formats and genres of web-published content including the look and feel of the original. LOCKSS is evolving open source software, which means there is less chance that the format of the stored content will become outdated and useless. When digital content becomes unavailable, for instance if a publisher chooses to retire a journal, then that “trigger event” allows content stored in the archive to be released to designated delivery platforms or hosts, ensuring unrestricted access to research literature that might otherwise have been lost. Prior to a trigger event the content is "dark” or hidden and is not available to anyone.
Content that has been made available through CLOCKSS can be freely accessed on the CLOCKSS website at http://www.clockss.org.
CLOCKSS is a joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries. Its 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. Governing Libraries include the Australian National University, Indiana University, New York Public Library, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Rice University, Stanford University, the University of Alberta, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Hong Kong and the University of Virginia. Governing Publishers include the American Medical Association, the American Physiological Society, bepress, Elsevier, IOP Publishing, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, SAGE Publications, Springer, Taylor & Francis and Wiley-Blackwell.
--submitted by Amy Kohrman
2. New Exhibit at Hoover: Shattered Peace: The Road to World War II
This exhibition of documents, photographs, posters, books, and audiovisual materials from the Hoover Library and Archives illustrates the diplomatic failures and the military actions that paved the way to World War II, highlighting the plight of civilians and the personal stories of witnesses.
Shattered Peace: The Road to World War II
Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion
Located next to Hoover Tower, Stanford University
January 13 through May 27, 2009
Tuesday through Saturday, 11 A.M. to 4 P.M.
For further information, call 650.723.3563 or go to:
http://www.hoover.org/hila/exhibits/37107879.html
Open to the public, free of charge.
Group tours can be arranged upon request.
--submitted by Nick Siekierski
3. *** Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: How can I find out the number of times that a particular author has been cited in the past?
Answer:
- Go to Web of Science.
- Do an author search. (It's recommended to browse variant forms of the author's name--there's a link by the author search box to do this).
- After search is run, click on "citation report" in the third segment down from top on right side of screen containing brief results. A new window will open that contains graphs, plus detailed data.
You can find more reference questions and answers at the Information Center Web site.
To contribute to the Reference Question of the Week feature of SULAIR News, submit your question
and answer through the SULAIR News online submission form.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
4. SULAIR Job Opportunities
SULAIR has no new positions this week.
For a complete description of open positions within SULAIR, go to the Stanford Jobs page and type University Libraries in the Job Search box at the bottom of the page.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
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Editor: Eleanor Brown, Eleanor.Brown@stanford.edu
