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[edit] CLOCKSS' Latest Trigger Event, Auto/Biography
The recent decision by SAGE Publications to discontinue its journal, Auto/Biography, provides the CLOCKSS Initiative another opportunity to demonstrate how CLOCKSS works. In doing so, CLOCKSS offers continuing and public access to all the SAGE-published Auto/Biography articles that are preserved in the CLOCKSS Archive.
[edit] The Trigger Process
SAGE Publications is a founding member of CLOCKSS. When it announced that it was discontinuing Auto/Biography, and the CLOCKSS governing board determined a trigger event had occurred, instructions were given to research libraries which serve as "nodes" in the CLOCKSS Archive to make the three volumes of Auto/Biography available to the public on the CLOCKSS hosting platforms.
The Auto/Biography content was not collected directly from the publisher's web site but was received from SAGE Publications as XML, PDF and other formats. It is preserved in these forms by the CLOCKSS Archive nodes. To prepare the volumes for the hosting platforms, an HTML representation of each volume was generated from the XML files using XSLT (a language for transforming XML) and the preserved PDF files added to it. The three volumes (2004 - 2007) are now available from CLOCKSS host institutions, the University of Edinburgh and Stanford University.
[edit] Creative Commons License
The Auto/Biography content is copyright SAGE Publications and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
[edit] About CLOCKSS
CLOCKSS is a not-for-profit, community-governed dark archive founded by top research libraries and scholarly publishers. The Archive comprises 14 nodes that are continuously monitored and self-corrected to ensure the authenticity and integrity of the content they safeguard. For more about CLOCKSS, click here.
[edit] About Auto/Biography
The official journal of The British Sociological Association Study Group on Autobiography
Auto/Biography is an international and interdisciplinary journal addressing theoretical, epistemological, and empirical issues relating to autobiographical and biographical research. Its aim is to further develop the growing academic interest across a range of disciplines in life-studies, life-writing, life history, narrative analysis, and the representation of lives. It is a journal that illuminates the social context of individual lives while also allowing space for individual stories to be told.
Editor Andrew C. Sparkes, University of Exeter
Reviews Editor Michael Erben, University of Southampton
Editorial Board
- Zhao Baisheng, Beijing University
- Jens Brockmeier, University of Toronto & the Hincks-Dellcrest Institute
- Gill Clarke, University of Southampton
- G. Thomas Couser, Hofstra University
- Hilary Dickinson, University of Greenwich
- Arthur Frank, University of Calgary
- Richard Freadman, La Trobe University
- Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri
- James A. Holstein, Marquette University
- Matti Hyvarinen, University of Helsinki
- Margaretta Jolly, University of Exeter
- David Morgan, University of Keele
- Catherine Kohler Riessman, Boston College
- Brian Roberts, University of Glamorgan
- Shelley Day Sclater, University of East London
- Sidonie Smith, University of Michigan
- Liz Stanley, University of Edinburgh
- Massimiliano Tarozzi, University of Trento
- Julia Watson, Ohio State University
- Wolfgang G. Weber, University of Innsbruck
- Gaby Weiner, Umea University
Administrator Judith Mudd, British Sociological Association
