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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/2016/06/01/launch-of-private-lockss-network-for-ojs-journals/">https://pkp.sfu.ca/2016/06/01/launch-of-private-lockss-network-for-ojs-journals/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858'>Membership in the registry enables PKP to share information on archived titles with the Registry and in turn with initiatives such as Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858'>PKP is pleased to announce that the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-lockss/"><span style='color:#0083C7;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>PKP Private LOCKSS Network</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>(PKP PLN) has moved into full production mode and is now providing<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Lato",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>free preservation services</span></strong><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>for any OJS journal that meets the minimum criteria and has upgraded to the newly released OJS 2.4.8. Any OJS journal that has an ISSN and has published at least one article can choose to agree to the terms of use and be preserved in the PKP PLN.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858'>“The PKP PLN’s critically important work to integrate the award winning LOCKSS software with the PKP framework vastly reduces digital preservation ingest costs”, said Victoria Reich, Executive Director LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries. “This model approach enables many thousands of at-risk journals from long tail publishers to be effectively, efficiently and affordably preserved for future generations.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858'>Bronwen Sprout, PKP PLN Coordinator, added “the PKP PLN represents a much-needed addition to a wider range of critical services for scholarly publishing and exemplifies the increasing range of publishing services now provided by PKP.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858'>Preservation nodes in Canada, the United States, and Europe are cooperating to provide the preservation infrastructure for the PKP PLN (see<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pkpplnnodes-2.jpg"><span style='color:#0083C7;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>map</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858'>The PKP PLN is a member of the<a href="http://thekeepers.org/"><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:#0083C7;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'> </span></span><span style='color:#0083C7;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Keepers Registry</span></a>, a central directory of preservation services for electronic journals, maintained by the University of Edinburgh and the ISSN International Centre. Membership in the registry enables PKP to share information on archived titles with the Registry and in turn with initiatives such as Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858'>According to Lars Bjørnshauge, Managing Director of DOAJ, “The PKP PLN will have positive implications for the OJS-based journals which apply for inclusion in DOAJ and those that may wish to qualify for the DOAJ Seal. To demonstrate our support for this initiative, DOAJ will add the PKP PLN as one of the resources that is explicitly mentioned as a preservation service in our application form and criteria.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>About LOCKSS</span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858'><br>The LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries, built on the principle that “lots of copies keep stuff safe”, provides open source tools and support to communities who use LOCKSS to ensure preservation and continual access to both purchased and locally produced scholarly content. Visit the LOCKSS website at<a href="http://www.lockss.org/"><span style='color:#0083C7;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>http://www.lockss.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>About DOAJ</span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",serif;color:#585858'>The Directory of Open Access Journals is a community-curated list of open access journals and aims to be the starting point for all information searches for quality, peer reviewed open access material. DOAJ was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open access journals and today contains nearly 9,000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>