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We're looking for a guest for the CLOCKSS interview series buff.ly/48rj5bL to discuss Indigenous knowledge and digital preservation, including oral traditions, cultural heritage, and community-led approaches. It's a 30-minute online conversation. Interested or know someone? Let's connect!

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! 🦃 Does a defrosted bird cook faster? Will guests spot potatoes from a box? Dare to microwave your buns? (Testers couldn’t tell!) Gems from our theses & government collections can help: archive.org/details/dehy... #CanadianThanksgiving #Turkey #Archives 🥔🍞🍗

#CLOCKSS Board of Directors Election Results Posted (via @clockssarchive.bsky.social) clockss.org/clockss-boar... #libraries #scholcomm #digipres #digitalpreservation #leadership #archives

We are pleased to announce that, at our most recent Board meeting, the following members were elected to serve as CLOCKSS Officers for the coming year buff.ly/TZ8Sidk

As AI increasingly uses Open Access research, questions about licensing, reuse, and the preservation of the original scholarly record are becoming more important. Our latest CLOCKSS blog explores these challenges and their implications for scholarly publishing. buff.ly/b9IeaQT #OpenAccess #AI

A global systematic review identifies recurring barriers to digital preservation: insufficient funding, weak policies, technological limitations, shortages of skilled staff, limited organizational support, and legal constraints. The challenges are interconnected, not isolated. buff.ly/BRfkya0

Join us on October 20th at FORUM. Together with Qatar National Library, we will be there to discuss Preservation needs in the Gulf and Middle East Register here: buff.ly/ZDsBzSk

"If information is abundant and increasingly available to machines as well as humans, where does value reside? I would argue that it lies increasingly in the creation, validation, interpretation, and preservation of knowledge." - Ashutosh Ghildiyal buff.ly/xwq284R

What does it actually take to keep a digital archive healthy for the very long term? At CLOCKSS, the answer involves much more than storing files. We're currently looking for a savvy someone who would like to help us think about - and look after - a globally distributed dark archive. buff.ly/9WvGO95

This looks like a cracker of a workshop! Smash the Silos, Build the Circle!: Institutional and Indigenous Collaboration in Digital Preservation Efforts Instructor: Jerrid Lee Miller, Archivist and Cherokee Nation citizen When: Thursday, October 15th, 1pm - 4pm (ET) buff.ly/fBsN3Bw

We are The world’s leading digital archive for academic publishers and research libraries. Begin your preservation journey with us buff.ly/oVQq01F #digitalpreservation #CLOCKSS

Thank you to everyone who participated in the #ipres2026 carbon calculation workshop!! You can find out more about the DPC toolkit here: buff.ly/cp2XlTy

Join the conversation on Ebook Preservation: The Hard Part Isn’t Technical. November 5, 2026, 3:30 pm CEST Register Here: buff.ly/wlZlOMo

The fundamental principle behind CLOCKSS is distributed preservation. Rather than relying on a single institution, data center, or jurisdiction, CLOCKSS maintains multiple, independently managed copies of preserved content across geographically dispersed nodes. Read more here: buff.ly/jVCUAcj

In a new CLOCKSS conversation, Prof. David Zeitlyn explores the ethical, social, and human questions behind digital preservation. Read the blog here: buff.ly/cZQSRvW

Another sobering keynote presentation by Emanuele Bellini on digital cultural heritage under attack. Openness does not render cultural resources immune to tampering. #ipres2026

Come visit us at iPRES 2026 stand 😊

Sibyl Schaefer helpfully outlines principles that can guide our decision making going forward in the context of the polycrisis to try and manage systemic risk #ipres2026

#ipres2026 Sibyl Schafer is doing a great job bringing humanity’s polycrisis to life and contextualizing digital preservation within it. To counterbalance this we are taking comfort from watching some of the many awesome conference knitters.

Very exciting to see the DPC's new carbon footprint calculation tool for digital archives launched, and delighted that the CLOCKSS community played a role in its creation! buff.ly/2hbgyxZ #ipres2026

The fundamental principle behind CLOCKSS is distributed preservation. Rather than relying on a single institution, data center, or jurisdiction, CLOCKSS maintains multiple, independently managed copies of preserved content across geographically dispersed nodes. Read more here: buff.ly/jVCUAcj

The fundamental principle behind CLOCKSS is distributed preservation. Rather than relying on a single institution, data center, or jurisdiction, CLOCKSS maintains multiple, independently managed copies of preserved content across geographically dispersed nodes. buff.ly/jVCUAcj

The fundamental principle behind CLOCKSS is distributed preservation. Rather than relying on a single institution, data center, or jurisdiction, CLOCKSS maintains multiple, independently managed copies of preserved content across geographically dispersed nodes. buff.ly/jVCUAcj

Application is now open for the Getty’s 2027-2028 Graduate Internship program - and highlight the one in digital preservation specifically. buff.ly/IAd0iGB

CLOCKSS and LOCKSS are working together to better support academic institutions facing increasing technological, economic, environmental, and geopolitical risks. buff.ly/q1Gn5HN

CLOCKSS is now preserving over 1,100,000 books as part of our ongoing work, with thousands of individual steps happening behind that number. Download or view our preservation reports buff.ly/ldtGmh5

Would you like to be featured in our monthly interview series? We’re looking to hear from people working with digital preservation and learn from your experiences, challenges, and perspectives. Interested in taking part? 📩 Write to Gali Halevi ghalevi@clockss.org We’d love to hear from you!

Learn about Digital Preservation with CLOCKSS bit.ly/4beaGpe

Finding CLOCKSS triggered content just got easier. We’ve added a new search tool to the CLOCKSS Triggered Content pages, making it quicker and easier to find and navigate to individual journal titles preserved in the archive and made available as Open Access. buff.ly/QkiEWYU

Earlier this year, CLOCKSS and APTrust launched a collaborative project to develop a practical digital preservation advocacy toolkit – designed to help preservation professionals make the case for digital preservation within their own institutions. Read the latest update: buff.ly/qfrHlY0

Preservation isn’t just about keeping files safe. What we choose to preserve shapes the scholarly record of the future. In a guest post for The Scholarly Kitchen, we explore how inclusive preservation can better protect regional, multilingual, community-produced content. bit.ly/4A2JTqH

Three months in: CLOCKSS–LOCKSS pilots take shape. Projects announced as an idea three months ago are now becoming tangible with real participating institutions, real digital collections, and broader strategic conversations around preservation and access. buff.ly/QKYP4ct

Our Newsletter is out and we have a lot to tell you. Sign up to receive it here: clockss.org/news/ #CLOCKSS #Digitalpreservation

APTrust and CLOCKSS have been working on a new Playbook to help digital preservation practitioners make the case for preservation internally. After two rounds of interviews, we’ve narrowed the focus: less generic advocacy advice, more practical content. Read the update buff.ly/AYpD3Se

Establishing a CLOCKSS node in South Africa with CHELSA represents an important milestone in expanding trusted digital preservation infrastructure in Africa, while further strengthening the archive's geographical resilience and diversity. clockss.org/chelsa-joins... #digitalpreservation

Not all digitization is preservation. Cutting the spine, scanning the pages, and throwing away the original may create a digital file. But it’s not preservation. As Robert Richardson puts it: “it is conversion with a casualty.” buff.ly/FCFGAH4 Preserve knowledge with CLOCKSS: buff.ly/5jDAkev

Wow - that was quick! Colleagues at Research Information are as excited as we are!! www.researchinformation.info/news/chelsa-...

We are proud to welcome CHELSA (the Committee of Higher Education Libraries of South Africa) to the CLOCKSS community! clockss.org/chelsa-joins...

Welcome to our YouTube Channel! Here you’ll find recordings of our webinars, interviews with thought leaders, and conversations exploring the latest developments in scholarly communication, digital preservation and more. www.youtube.com/@digital_pre...

New partnership between CLOCKSS and CHELSA reflects a shared commitment to ensuring that South Africa's research output is preserved as part of the global scholarly record. clockss.org/chelsa-joins...

Join us at IPRES 2026 conference where we will be presenting on the topic of CARBON FOOTPRINTING FOR DIGITAL ARCHIVES: FROM IPRES WORKSHOP TO DPC TOOLKIT (2024–2026) bit.ly/4wnfRe2

We triggered two new journals that are now available open access. Journal of Open Public Health Data - clockss.org/triggered-co... Open Health Data - clockss.org/triggered-co...

CLOCKSS and LOCKSS are working together to strengthen digital preservation and give academic institutions more resilient, community-governed options for preserving their digital collections. Read more here: bit.ly/43w6pcF #CLOCKSS #LOCKSS #DigitalPreservation #AcademicLibraries

One of the funny things about digital preservation is that when we do our job well, nobody notices. Nobody is sitting around thinking, “I wonder where this article will be in 30 years?” That’s what CLOCKSS does. buff.ly/dph6bIL

Scholarship, safely preserved. 12 archive nodes across continents. Redundant, resilient, and reliable. That’s the CLOCKSS model: protecting the scholarly record today so it remains available for researchers tomorrow. Learn about us here: clockss.org/about/ #CLOCKSS #DigitalPreservation

Our archive is growing as we welcome more libraries and publishers to the our community. Start your preservation journey with us and ensure that your digital content is secure, accessible and usable for future generations. Contact us at info@clockss.org

Dear libraries, Future access to the content you value isn’t guaranteed. Publishers change. Platforms disappear. Business models evolve. Content can be lost when there is no independent, trusted preservation strategy in place. See how CLOCKSS can help: buff.ly/npXGUmZ

We’re pleased that our Executive Director, Alicia Wise will be speaking at the Open Preservation Foundation webinar “Ebook Preservation: The Hard Part Isn’t Technical” on November 5, 2026. Learn more and register for the event buff.ly/o1oL2nR #DigitalPreservation #EbookPreservation #CLOCKSS