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
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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
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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.

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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.
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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
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"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)

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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
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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.

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

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