Oxford Journals rolls out LOCKSS programme

Oxford Journals has announce that it is to begin preserving its content in Stanford University's LOCKSS Programme. The LOCKSS Programme (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is a community based, open source, persistent access digital preservation system. It enables publishers to guarantee long term perpetual access to their content, by allowing libraries to store, preserve, and provide back-up access to the content they have purchased. Oxford Journals' participation in the LOCKSS Programme further reinforces their commitment to providing long term accessibility, following their archiving agreement with the National Library of the Netherlands, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) in 2004, and their current backfile digitization programme, due for completion in early 2006