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LOCKSS
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| Developer(s) | Stanford University |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.78.3[1]
/ 1 August 2024 |
| Repository | |
| License | BSD style |
| Website | www |
The LOCKSS ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") project, under the auspices of Stanford University, is a peer-to-peer network that develops and supports an open source system allowing libraries to collect, preserve and provide their readers with access to material published on the Web. Its main goal is digital preservation.
The system attempts to replicate the way libraries do this for material published on paper. It was originally designed for scholarly journals,[2] but is now also used for a range of other materials. Examples include the SOLINET project to preserve theses and dissertations at eight universities,[3] US government documents,[4] and the MetaArchive Cooperative program preserving at-risk digital archival collections, including Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), newspapers, photograph collections, and audio-visual collections.[5][6]
A similar project called CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) "is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization, governed by a Board of Directors made up of librarians and publishers."[7] CLOCKSS runs on LOCKSS technology.[8]
- ^ "Release 1.78.3". 1 August 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ^ David S. H. Rosenthal; Vicky Reich (June 18, 2000). Permanent Web Publishing (PDF). Proceedings of FREENIX Track: 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. Retrieved 2008-01-19.
- ^ "ASERL and LOCKSS to Preserve e-Theses & Dissertations" (Press release). SOLINET. July 11, 2005. Retrieved 2008-01-19.
- ^ Jacobs, James. "LOCKSS-USDOCS". home page. LOCKSS. Archived from the original on July 10, 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ "The MetaArchive Cooperative". Home page. Retrieved 2008-01-19.
- ^ Maniatis, Petros; Rosenthal, David S. H.; Roussopoulos, Mema; Baker, Mary; Giuli, TJ; Muliadi, Yanto (2003). "Preserving peer replicas by rate-limited sampled voting". Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles - SOSP '03 (PDF). p. 44. arXiv:cs/0303026. doi:10.1145/945445.945451. ISBN 978-1581137576. S2CID 215753435. Free PDF download.
- ^ CLOCKSS.org (2015), CLOCKSS.org.
- ^ CLOCKSS.org (2008-02-14), What's the difference between LOCKSS and CLOCKSS? (PDF), retrieved 2015-11-21.
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