February 3, 2006

Libraries and Publishers Create Archive for Backup Copies of Electronic Journals

By VINCENT KIERNAN

A coalition of journal publishers and university libraries is starting an experimental archive of online journals that will be held in reserve in case a journal's publisher goes out of business or is otherwise unable to continue providing online access to its articles.

The pilot program uses peer-to-peer archiving software developed at Stanford University, called Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe, or Lockss (http://lockss.stanford.edu). The journal archive is called Controlled Lockss, or

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