LOCKSS Digital Archiving System

Sun Microsystems has issued a press release, announcing the LOCKSS ("Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") Program. "The LOCKSS program is a joint undertaking of Sun Microsystems Laboratories and Stanford University Libraries to develop a secure, reliable system which safeguards and preserves access to digital publications. The LOCKSS system is designed to make it feasible and affordable, even for smaller libraries, to preserve access to the e-journals to which they subscribe, and safeguard their community's access to them." Fourty nine libraries will be using the system, it will be run on Linux systems.

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