[edit] Welcome
What is the LOCKSS Program?
LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), based at Stanford University Libraries, is an international community initiative that provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so that they can easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copies of authorized e-content. LOCKSS, in its tenth year, provides libraries with the open-source software and support to preserve today’s web-published materials for tomorrow’s readers while building their own collections and acquiring a copy of the assets they pay for, instead of simply leasing them.
The ACM award-winning LOCKSS technology is an open source, peer-to-peer, decentralized digital preservation infrastructure. LOCKSS preserves all formats and genres of web-published content. The intellectual content, which includes the historical context (the look and feel), is preserved. LOCKSS is OAIS-compliant; the software migrates content forward in time; and the bits and bytes are continually audited and repaired.
Today LOCKSS is a thriving international community-based initiative with libraries and publishers working together with the shared goal to preserve e-content for the long-term. More than 300 leading scholarly publishers have granted permission for their content to be preserved by LOCKSS Alliance members.
Why should you care?
Libraries are a critical piece of our social fabric. They inform and educate citizens; they provide critical support to democratic societies by acting as memory institutions. The memory of a library is its collections; therefore in order for a library to be a memory organization it must build collections.
LOCKSS helps libraries stay relevant by building collections even as an increasing portion of today’s content is born digitally and published on the web.
LOCKSS replicates the traditional model of libraries keeping physical copies of books, journals, etc. in their collections, making it possible for libraries to house copies of digital materials long-term. Hundreds of publishers and libraries around the world have joined the LOCKSS community and are working together to ensure that libraries continue their important social memory role.
Content preserved by libraries through LOCKSS becomes a part of their collection, and they have perpetual access to 100% of the titles preserved in their LOCKSS Box.
What should you do next?
LOCKSS software is freely available for you to examine and use. To install a LOCKSS box today, watch this 
video of how to bring a LOCKSS box online, and visit the Installing LOCKSS section of our website. Also, please consider joining the LOCKSS Alliance, and watch this two part series, part 1, part 2, about the the advantages and benefits of being a LOCKSS Alliance member. Please join us!
“NYU Libraries’ decision to join the LOCKSS Alliance was grounded in our sincere commitment to the preservation of digital content. We want to support the broadest possible exploration of methods for insuring such preservation. The LOCKSS model is based on an elegantly simple philosophy, promoting the building of local collections and their preservation on site. We are impressed by the autonomy that the LOCKSS model offers and the minimal effort required to run it. NYU has been very happy with its decision to join LOCKSS, and we encourage others to express their commitment to digital preservation by joining the LOCKSS community.”
| - Dr. Michael Stoller, Director, Collections & Research Services, New York University Libraries |  |
[edit] News
On a Mission: Daniel Cornwall, Alaska State Library
March 15, 2008
Library Journal's "Mover and Shaker" Dan Cornwall, Head of Information Services, Alaska State Library, entrusted LOCKSS technology to safeguard Alaska's state documents. Read about it here.
Vicky Reich, LOCKSS Director and co-founder, honored with the 2008 Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award
February 22, 2008
The LOCKSS Program is proud to announce that Vicky Reich is the recipient of the 2008 Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award in recognition of her distinguished and ongoing contributions to the field of digital preservation. Vicky's leadership role in the development and adoption of digital preservation solutions like LOCKSS and CLOCKSS ensures the accessibility of serial publications and other digital content for future generations. Read the press release here.
PsychiatryOnline.com Textbook to Be Preserved Via LOCKSS
February 19, 2008
LOCKSS is a unique digital preservation solution that enables libraries to easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copy of authorized e-content. LOCKSS Alliance members who subscribe to the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, Fourth Edition at PsychiatryOnline.com will have access to this e-book in perpetuity. The Fourth Edition of the Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry is being made available for LOCKSS preservation in conjunction with the March 2008 release of the new Fifth Edition to current subscribers at http://www.PsychiatryOnline.com, the book-and-journal portal from APPI.
"We are thrilled to support APPI in its endeavor to preserve for future generations, not simply its world-class e-journals on the LOCKSS system, but also this important digital textbook. Through these actions, APPI helps libraries fulfill their role as custodians of scholarly content," says Vicky Reich, LOCKSS Director.
“We feel lucky to have the LOCKSS system as a preservation solution,” says Pam Harley, Director of e-Publishing Strategy at APPI, “and to be able to extend their innovative and collaborative approach beyond our journals to our key online textbooks, making sure they remain accessible for generations to come.”
[edit] Content Releases
08/06/08
Sixty nine additional volumes are now available for preservation, including volumes from one new publisher and 11 new titles: BioMed Central (24 volumes) and University of California Press (45 volumes).
07/22/08
105 additional volumes are now available for preservation, including volumes from 17 new titles: BioMed Central (14 volumes) and SAGE Publications (91 volumes).
07/07/08
303 additional volumes from Annual Reviews, including volumes from 2 new titles, are now available for preservation. Please note: Annual Reviews volumes are only available for preservation by LOCKSS Alliance members located in the UK.
