HomeThe UK LOCKSS Alliance
Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) is an international initiative to ensure libraries remain central to the process of scholarly information management.
Launched in August 2008, the UK LOCKSS Alliance is a cooperative movement of UK academic libraries that are committed to identify, negotiate, and build local archives of material that librarians and academic scholars deem significant. By ensuring that the library is involved in rights negotiation, collection decisions, and ownership of infrastructure it reinforces the role of the library as custodian of scholarly content.
The UK LOCKSS Alliance also acts as a focal point for discussion on the issues of journal preservation and rights management, providing a forum to discuss current developments. Our goal is to assist the UK library community in making a collective and considered response to changing environments.
Institutions spread across JISC banding are participating in the UK LOCKSS Alliance. Globally, hundreds of publishers and librarians have joined LOCKSS to ensure that libraries continue their role as custodians of information. Join them now and make a difference.
For more information on the LOCKSS technology itself, please visit http://www.lockss.org/.
