Portico http://portico/digital-preservation A Digital Preservation and Electronic Archiving Service Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:38:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to preserve approximately 400 publications from the ACM Digital Library, including journals, magazines, newsletters, transactions, and proceedings. The ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery (www.acm.org), is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. Through its agreement with Portico, the ACM ensures that its entire collection of online publications is preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. The ACM has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of the ACM's online publications, over 10,500 e-journals and 28,000 e-books from 87 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles and participating publishers is available at www.portico.org.]]> 0 Brazilian Academic Consortia - CAPES - Joins Portico to Support Digital Preservation Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that more than 150 academic libraries in Brazil have begun participation in the Portico archive. These libraries joined Portico as part of a digital preservation initiative directed by the 'Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento do Pessoal de Nivel Superior' (CAPES). CAPES is a governmental foundation affiliated to the Ministry of Education in Brazil, that supports and sponsors research initiatives and the scientific development of Brazilian researchers and professors. "To be part of the Portico initiative is very important to all CAPES institutional members. We firmly believe Portico will meet our preservation needs in terms of scientific journals content," said Professor Elenara Almeida, Coordinator of CAPES Scientific Portal. The Brazilian libraries join more than 460 libraries from 13 countries in supporting Portico and digital preservation. The complete list of participating libraries is available at http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html. For more information about Portico participation, please contact us. More information about CAPES is available at http://www.capes.gov.br.]]> 0 Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with the Society for Endocrinology and BioScientifica Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with the Society for Endocrinology and its subsidiary, BioScientifica Ltd, to preserve the online collection of the five e-journals they publish, together with their predecessor titles. Based in Bristol in the UK, the Society has been publishing journals since 1939, and exists to advance scientific and clinical education and research in endocrinology for the public benefit. BioScientifica publishes journals on behalf of the European Society of Endocrinology and the Society for Reproduction and Fertility. Through this agreement with Portico, the Society of Endocrinology and BioScientifica ensure that the online version of these journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. The group has named Portico as a mechanism to fulfil post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of these e-journals, over 10,300 e-journals and 27,000 e-books from 82 publishers on behalf of 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. A complete list of titles and participating publishers is available at www.portico.org.

About the Society for Endocrinology and BioScientifica Ltd

The Society for Endocrinology is a major society representing scientists, clinicians and nurses who work with hormones. Its journals are global in their profile, content and readership. The Society is based in the UK, and aims to advance education and research in endocrinology for the public benefit, promoting endocrinology and hormone awareness to the wider community. For more information, visit http://www.endocrinology.org/. BioScientifica Ltd is the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Society for Endocrinology. Its close working relationship with the Society gives it a clear understanding of the needs of academic researchers. BioScientifica offers a range of publication services to learned societies and other clients. In additional to publishing journals, books and newsletters, its services include event management, conference abstract management, membership services for societies, and website design and maintenance. For further information, visit http://www.bioscientifica.com/.]]> 0 Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with Historians for Netherlandish Art Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) to preserve Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA). HNA is an international organization founded in 1983 to foster communication and collaboration among historians of Northern European art from medieval to modern times. JHNA is its electronic journal founded in 2009, publishing issues of peer-reviewed articles two times per year. Through this agreement with Portico, the HNA ensures that JHNA will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. HNA has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico to help support the work of the archive. With the inclusion of JHNA, over 10,000 e-journals and 27,000 e-books from 82 publishers on behalf of 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. A complete list of titles and participating publishers is available at www.portico.org.]]> 0 Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with University of Technology Sydney Library Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with University of Technology Sydney (Australia) Library (UTS Library) to preserve its online collection of 11 e-journals. UTS Library created UTSeScholarship in 2004, an initiative that provides a secure, stable, digital home for the scholarly output of the University's staff, students, and colleagues with whom they collaborate. UTSeScholarship includes UTSePress, which publishes these scholarly journals as well as books and conference proceedings. Through this agreement with Portico, UTS Library ensures that the online versions of its journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. UTS Library has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of UTS Library's e-journals, over 10,000 e-journals and 27,000 e-books from 77 publishers on behalf of 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. A complete list of titles and participating publishers is available at www.portico.org.]]> 0 Portico Seeks Community Input on Preservation of DOAJ Journals Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers simple feedback form to share with us their top ten preservation priorities from the Directory of Open Access Journals. With your feedback, we can prioritize our own efforts and begin working to preserve DOAJ titles that are of most importance to you. So that we can initiate publisher outreach during the 4th quarter of this year, your response by September 30th would be greatly appreciated. Over 10,000 e-journals and 27,000 e-books from 75 publishers on behalf of more than 2,000 societies and associations have been entrusted to the Portico archive. A complete list of titles and participating publishers is available at www.portico.org. We thank you in advance for taking the time to help us in this endeavor, and as always, we appreciate your continued support of Portico. If you have any questions or comments about the survey, please contact us at info@portico.org.]]> 0 Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with Rockefeller University Press Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with Rockefeller University Press to preserve its online collection of three e-journals. Rockefeller University established a publications department in 1910 and has been publishing scholarly journals in the sciences since 1917. Through this agreement with Portico, Rockefeller University Press furthers its digital preservation strategy. Since 2005, the Press has worked with JSTOR to provide a trusted archive for the back issues of the Journal of Cell Biology. The Press has agreed to make an annual contribution to Portico to support its preservation work and has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of Rockefeller’s e-journals, over 10,000 e-journals and 27,000 e-books from 75 publishers on behalf of 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. A complete list of titles and participating publishers is available at www.portico.org.]]> 0 Presentations from Portico's ALA Annual Participants' Meeting Now Available Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Portico Participants' Meeting ALA Annual Meeting Saturday, July 11, 2009 Kevin Guthrie, President of Ithaka, opened the meeting with a brief discussion of our organizational mission, current work, and future plans. Our guest speaker, Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University, provided a perspective on what the obligation to preserve longevity of scholarly materials and future access across a wide range of digital and print materials means today and for the future. Bruce Heterick, VP of Outreach & Participation Services, gave an update on Portico's growth and glimpse into our plans for working with new content. Evan Owens, VP of Content Management, discussed the range of technical approaches now being used at Portico to ensure the future accessibility of multiple content types. Ken DiFiore, Associate Director of Outreach & Participation Services, provided an update on our study to evaluate the needs, approaches, and challenges for preserving digitized collections created at libraries or academic institutions. If you attended the meeting, please take a moment to complete our feedback form. If you have any questions about these presentations, participating in Portico, or about our other preservation activities, please email info@portico.org.]]> 0 Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with Policy Press Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with Policy Press to preserve its online collection of three e-journals. Policy Press, located at the University of Bristol in the UK, is a leading social science publisher of books, reports, and journals on a wide range of subjects including: social policy and social welfare, family policy, social work, public policy, criminal justice, and housing and urban policy. As part of its agreement with Portico, Policy Press will make an annual financial contribution to help support the work of the archive. With the inclusion of Policy Press' e-journals, over 10,000 e-journals and 27,000 e-books from 75 publishers on behalf of more than 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. A complete list of titles and participating publishers is available at www.portico.org.]]> 0 Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with Brill Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with Brill to preserve its entire online journals collection of 130 titles. Founded in 1683 in Leiden, The Netherlands, Brill is a leading international publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition to its journals program, Brill publishes 500 new books and reference works each year. Through this agreement with Portico, Brill furthers its digital preservation strategy. Since 2005, Brill has worked with JSTOR to provide a trusted archive for 23 of its journals' back issues. Brill has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico to help support its preservation work. With the inclusion of Brill's e-journals, over 10,000 e-journals and 27,000 e-books from 74 publishers on behalf of 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles as well as a list of participating publishers are available at www.portico.org.]]> 0 Springer to Preserve E-Books in Portico Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Springer to preserve its entire electronic book collection of 21,000 e-books. Through this agreement with Portico, Springer furthers its digital preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico since 2007 on behalf of 824 titles from its e-journals collection as well as the inclusion of 68 of its journals in JSTOR. Springer is one of the world's largest journal publishers in the STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) sector, the largest publisher of STM books, and the largest business-to-business publisher in the German language. As part of the agreement, Springer will make an annual financial contribution to Portico to support its e-book preservation activities and has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims for the titles. With the inclusion of Springer's e-books, over 10,000 e-journals and 27,000 e-books from 74 publishers on behalf of 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles as well as a list of participating publishers are available at www.portico.org.]]> 0 "Orphaned" Journal Now Secure in Portico Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Pain Reviews online from 1998 to 2002. In 2006, Hodder ended its journal program and sold its list to SAGE Publications, except for Pain Reviews. The title had already been discontinued and, at the time, there were no options for moving it into a managed digital preservation service. Now, seven years later, Hodder has given Portico the right to preserve the title and to provide access to its nearly 500 participating libraries around the world. "This is an important development for libraries and scholars," commented Eileen Fenton, Portico's Executive Director. "There is volatility in the publishing market. Publications come and go, and titles that become orphaned over time need the kind of permanent preservation and care that Portico routinely provides for electronic scholarly literature. Our ability to ensure libraries will not lose access to content in the future provides all concerned—publishers, libraries and scholars—with the support necessary to transition securely to reliance on e-resources." Portico has secured the original digital files from IngentaConnect (a Publishing Technology service), Hodder's former technology provider, and has migrated them to an archival format, deposited the files into the archive, and is managing their preservation including migrating the content to new formats over time. The content will be removed from the Ingenta website. It has already been pushed out to the Portico delivery site for access by users at Portico participating institutions. "This is an important step forward in the academic publishing industry's shift to e-resources," said Louise Tutton, Senior Vice President, Publishing Technology. "Very few publishers want to continue to spend money supporting titles that no longer deliver economic value or to invest in technology format upgrades for them, and titles cease publication every year. Shifting responsibility for these publications to entities like Portico so that libraries and scholars can be assured of long-term access makes good sense."]]> 0 Pain Reviews: Access Trigger at Portico Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Pain Reviews via the Portico website (http://www.portico.org/Portico/browse?journal=ISSN_09681302). This journal was published by Hodder Arnold and ceased publication in 2002. The title has remained online through the Ingenta platform, but Ingenta is currently in the process of discontinuing online access to Pain Reviews on their site. All Portico participating libraries now have access to this title regardless of whether your institution previously subscribed to Pain Reviews. We have already established your access. Students, faculty and staff can access volumes 5 through 9 of Pain Reviews through the "Access Archive" link on the Portico homepage (www.portico.org). (Volumes 1 through 4 are not available in digital form). Users can browse, search, and print Pain Reviews as well as other previously triggered content. Libraries wishing to direct link resolvers should note the Stable URL below. Portico is working with CrossRef and data and linking service vendors to ensure that the Pain Reviews access information is loaded into these linking systems. Key facts about the Pain Reviews content that has triggered and is available for use via Portico are below:
Title Pain Reviews
Trigger Date July 2, 2009
ISSN 0968-1302
e-ISSN 1477-0318
Publisher Hodder Arnold Publishers
Holdings Information v.5 (no. 1-4), v.6 (no. 1-4), v.7 (no. 1,2, 3/4), v. 8 (no. 1,2, 3/4), v.9 (no. 1,2, 3/4)
Publication Date Range 1998 – 2002
Stable URL http://www.portico.org/Portico/browse?journal=ISSN_09681302
The Portico OpenURL Base URL is: http://www.portico.org/openurl/resolver. Additional information about all triggered content that is available from Portico to your institution is available at: http://www.portico.org/news/trigger.html. We welcome any comments, questions or concerns you might have. Please contact us at support@portico.org to share your input. Regards, Brian Larsen Portico User Support Manager email: support@portico.org web: www.portico.org]]> 0 Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with Emerald Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with Emerald Group Publishing Limited to preserve its entire online journals collection. Established in 1967, Emerald Group Publishing Limited is the world's leading publisher of management research. In total, Emerald publishes over 700 titles, comprising 200 journals, over 300 books and more than 200 book series as well as an extensive range of online products and services. Through this agreement with Portico, Emerald ensures that the online versions of its journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. Emerald has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of the Emerald publications, over 10,000 e-journals and 6,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of journal titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico Announces Participants' Meeting at ALA Annual Conference Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers events@ithaka.org.]]> 0 Springer Expands Agreement with Portico Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that Springer has expanded its agreement with the digital preservation service by naming Portico as a mechanism for perpetual access (also known as post-cancellation access) for its more than 800 titles preserved in the archive. Springer is one of the world's largest journal publishers in the STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) sector, the largest publisher of STM books, and the largest business-to-business publisher in the German language. Springer began participation in Portico in 2007. Through this expanded agreement, Springer provides Portico's nearly 500 participating libraries around the world with an additional reliable, 'back up' option to ensure continuing access to subscribed content for their faculty, researchers, and students. Publishers have a variety of arrangements for providing continuing access to libraries in the event of a cancellation. Portico is able to serve as one such mechanism if and when needed for over 85% of the more than 15,300 e-journals and e-books committed to the Portico archive. For more information about Portico, please visit www.portico.org.]]> 0 Wolters Kluwer Health to Preserve E-Journals in Portico Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Wolters Kluwer Health to preserve more than 300 periodicals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), Adis International, and Facts & Comparisons®. Through this agreement with Portico, Wolters Kluwer ensures that these online journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. Wolters Kluwer has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of Wolters Kluwer journals, more than 9,100 e-journals and 6,480 e-books have been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles as well as a list of participating publishers is available at www.portico.org.]]> 0 Walter de Gruyter to Preserve E-Books with Portico Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Walter de Gruyter to preserve its entire electronic book collection of approximately 1,200 titles. Through this agreement with Portico, Walter de Gruyter furthers its preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico on behalf of 61 titles from its e-journals collection and ensures that the online version of its digital books will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. As part of the agreement, Walter de Gruyter will make an annual financial contribution to Portico to support its e-book preservation activities and has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims for the titles. With the inclusion of Walter de Gruyter's e-books, approximately 8,840 e-journals and 6,480 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles as well as a list of participating publishers are available at www.portico.org.]]> 0 Portico Announces Preservation Agreement with M.E. Sharpe Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with M.E. Sharpe to preserve its entire online journals collection of 38 titles. Founded in 1958, M.E. Sharpe is a privately held publisher of books and journals in the social sciences and in economics, political science, management and public administration, history, and literature. They also publish both original works and translations in Asian and East European studies. Through this agreement with Portico, M.E. Sharpe furthers its preservation strategy. Since 2005, M.E. Sharpe has worked with JSTOR to provide a trusted archive for 4 of its journals' back issues. Through Portico, it will provide for the ongoing preservation of the full suite of its titles, including both electronic journal issues and digitized print. M.E. Sharpe has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of the M.E. Sharpe publications, over 14,000 e-books and e-journals have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of journal titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention: Access Triggers at Portico Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention (BTCI) via the Portico website (http://www.portico.org/Portico/browse?journal=ISSN_14743310). This journal was published by Oxford University Press (OUP) and ceased publication in 2008. Effective April 27, 2009 BTCI will no longer be accessible from Oxford Journals Online. All Portico participating libraries now have access to this title regardless of whether your institution subscribed to BTCI. We have already established your access. Students, faculty and staff can access the complete run of BCTI through the "Access Archive" link on the Portico homepage (www.portico.org). Users can browse, search, and print BCTI as well as other previously triggered content. Libraries wishing to direct link resolvers should note the Stable URL below. Portico is working with CrossRef and data and linking service vendors to ensure that the BTCI access information is loaded into these linking systems. Key facts about the BTCI content that has triggered and is available for use via Portico are below:
Title Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention
Trigger Date Apr 27, 2009
ISSN ISSN 1474-3310
e-ISSN 1474-3329
Publisher Oxford University Press
Holdings Information v. 1 (1-2), v. 2 (1-4), v. 3 (1-4), v. 4 (1-4), v. 5 (1-4), v. 6 (1-4), v. 7 (1-3, Special Issue), v. 8 (1-4)
Publication Date Range 2001 – 2008
Stable URL http://www.portico.org/Portico/browse?journal=ISSN_14743310
The Portico OpenURL Base URL is: http://www.portico.org/openurl/resolver. Additional information about all triggered content that is available from Portico to your institution is available at: http://www.portico.org/news/trigger.html. We welcome any comments, questions or concerns you might have. Please contact us at support@portico.org to share your input. Regards, Brian Larsen Portico User Support Manager email: support@portico.org web: www.portico.org]]> 0 Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with INFORMS Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org.]]> 0 Portico and Medknow Publications Reach Digital Preservation Agreement Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org.]]> 0 Duke University Press to Preserve E-Books with Portico Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org.]]> 0 2008 Portico Report from Eileen Fenton, Executive Director Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers 10 millionth article has been ingested into the archive. With more than 8,200 journals (~17 million articles) and 4,600 e-books from hundreds of scholarly societies and publishers now committed to the Portico archive - and Portico named as a post-cancellation access point for more than 80% of these titles - there is now substantial overlap between the archive and individual library holdings. (If you would like a custom report that compares your holdings to the Portico archive, please email us at info@portico.org. There is no charge for this report.) As the archive grows the value of Portico increases, and libraries' per title preservation costs decline, in many cases to substantially less than $1.00 per title (download illustration of per title preservation costs). Of course, more content is added to the archive daily, and our discussions with publishers not yet participating in Portico continue. In response to requests from publishers and libraries another critical milestone passed in 2008 was the launch of Portico's e-book preservation service, and discussions also are underway with publishers of digitized historical collections, such as historical newspapers. In addition, our investigation into the possibility of libraries preserving their unique digital collections in the Portico archive is progressing and will be completed later this year. These expanded services and the existing large-scale archive enable Portico to even more fully address the urgent digital preservation needs created by increased adoption of diverse digital scholarly resources. Our ongoing preservation work also enables us to continue to respond to trigger events, and in this economic environment we expect and are preparing for more in 2009. As we look ahead, several initiatives will be particularly important in 2009, as we strive for even greater transparency and expanded engagement with the community. We will work with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) as they conduct a formal audit of the Portico archive as part of their work to independently analyze and report on the major repositories of interest to the CRL community. We also will work with select libraries to expand the means by which we evaluate the completeness of the archive, and we will conduct a significant migration of archival metadata to bring it in compliance with the current PREMIS preservation metadata standards. As we continue to address now critical preservation needs, I hope you will feel free to contact me with questions or suggestions. We especially welcome comments regarding content that you are eager to see added to the archive, and I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Eileen Fenton Executive Director, Portico 609.986.2215 eileen.fenton@portico.org www.portico.org Your Content. Preserved Here.]]> 0 Portico Achieves Major Milestone in Digital Preservation with 10 Million Articles Preserved Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Portico is pleased to announce that more than 10 million journal articles are preserved within the Portico archive. Launched in 2005 with support from JSTOR, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ithaka, and the Library of Congress, Portico provides a permanent archive of scholarly literature published in electronic form. The Portico archive is supported by both publishers and libraries and is increasingly central to the digital preservation and permanent access strategies of institutions around the world. "The preservation of more than 10 million journal articles is an important milestone. Our stewardship of this material on behalf of the members of the higher education community that have come together to support the Portico archive is a substantial responsibility," said Eileen Fenton, Portico's Executive Director. "The growth of the archive underscores the importance of preservation archives in facilitating a secure transition from print to electronic collections." At the close of 2008, 68 publishers producing journals and e-books on behalf of hundreds of scholarly societies participate in Portico and have entrusted over 8,200 journal titles and 4,600 e-books to the archive. Libraries from the global community have been equally supportive of Portico with nearly 500 current participants from 13 countries. For more information about Portico, please visit www.portico.org or send an email to participation@portico.org.]]> 0 Ithaka, organizational home to Portico, merges with JSTOR Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers University Publishing in A Digital Age and the 2008 Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources. It is the organizational home to Portico, a digital preservation service, and NITLE, a suite of services supporting the use of technology in liberal arts education. The new combined enterprise will be called Ithaka and will be dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technologies to advance scholarship and teaching and to reducing system-wide costs through collective action. This is a natural step for these organizations. JSTOR and Ithaka already work closely together, sharing a common history, values, and fundamental purpose. During 2008, the Ithaka-incubated resource Aluka was integrated into JSTOR as an initial step, further strengthening ties between the organizations. JSTOR will now join Portico and NITLE as a coordinated set of offerings made available under the Ithaka organizational name. As one organization, Ithaka will explore how to use its combined knowledge and experience to help its constituents in new ways. "The academic community has invested significantly in the important set of services that we manage and, together, they represent core elements of the networked digital infrastructure needed to support scholarship, research, and teaching. Increasingly we are approached for help on a range of initiatives that seek to leverage this investment and that we think will benefit from stronger coordination across all our areas of expertise and activity," said Guthrie. "We are very excited about the potential to work with our constituents in even more useful innovative ways through this combination." The organization will also remain steadfastly committed to enabling institutions to maximize the benefits they provide to scholars and students while containing expenses. Michael Spinella, Executive Director of JSTOR and now Executive Vice President of Ithaka added, "JSTOR and Ithaka have a history of helping academic institutions by building and managing collectively-supported large-scale resources with an aim of developing sustainable models that deliver greater value than institutions could achieve alone. Now is the time when we can work even more closely together to develop and sustain the kinds of shared solutions that will be vital to the success of educational institutions in the future." In addition to JSTOR, Portico, and NITLE, Ithaka's existing research and strategic services groups will remain important parts of the enterprise. The board will be composed of Ithaka and JSTOR Trustees, with Henry Bienen, President of Northwestern University, serving as Chairman and Paul Brest, President of the Hewlett Foundation as Vice Chairman. About JSTOR JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive. The JSTOR archive includes over 800 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as conference proceedings, transactions, select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. More than 5,200 academic and other institutions in 143 countries and over 600 learned societies, university presses, cultural heritage, and other content contributors participate in JSTOR. Since the public launch of the archive, over 750 million articles and other items have been accessed by researchers and students throughout the world. About Ithaka Ithaka is an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide. Ithaka provides research, strategic, and administrative services to promising not-for-profit projects, helping them to develop sustainable organizational and business models. It also works with established institutions that are rethinking the way they serve their core constituents. Ithaka includes Portico a digital preservation archive to which more than 8,200 e-journals and 4,600 e-books are committed, and NITLE, a suite of services supporting the innovative use of technology in liberal arts education. For further information, please contact: Heidi McGregor Director, Marketing & Communications heidi.mcgregor@ithaka.org]]> 0 Archaeological Institute of America and Portico Reach Preservation Agreement Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers (www.portico.org), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) to preserve its flagship online publication, American Journal of Archaeology. The AIA is North America's oldest and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology with nearly 250,000 members and subscribers belonging to more than 100 local AIA societies in the United States, Canada, and overseas, united by a shared passion for archaeology and its role in furthering human knowledge. Through this agreement with Portico, the AIA furthers its preservation strategy for the American Journal of Archaeology, the back issues of which have been preserved in JSTOR. Through this agreement with Portico, the AIA ensures that the born-digital current issues of the journal will remain accessible to future generations of scholars, researchers, and students. With the inclusion of the American Journal of Archaeology, over 8,200 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of e-journals is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico and Thieme Reach Preservation Agreement Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers (www.portico.org), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Thieme Publishing Group to preserve its collection of 147 online journals. Thieme Publishing Group is a privately held scientific and medical publishing house employing more than 1,000 people and maintaining offices in seven cities, including New York, Delhi, Beijing, Stuttgart and three other locations in Germany. Founded in 1886, the Thieme name has become synonymous with high quality and excellence in medical and scientific publishing. Through this agreement with Portico, Thieme ensures that its online journal collection will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. Thieme has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of Thieme's publications, over 8,200 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of e-journals is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico and NISO Reach Preservation Agreement Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with NISO (National Information Standards Organization) to preserve its online publication, Information Standards Quarterly. NISO, a non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute, identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information in a digital environment. NISO standards apply both traditional and new technologies to the full range of information-related needs, including retrieval, re-purposing, storage, metadata, and preservation. Through this agreement with Portico, NISO ensures that the online version of its publication will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. NISO has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of Information Standards Quarterly, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of e-journals is available at http://www.portico.org/about/committed_titles_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico to Preserve the Indiana University Mathematics Journal Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org), is pleased to announce that it will preserve the online version of the Indiana University Mathematics Journal. Founded in 1952 and edited by faculty members of the Department of Mathematics of Indiana University, the journal is committed to fostering both pure and applied mathematics by publishing original research conjoined with a high level of expository clarity. Through this agreement with Portico, the Indiana University Mathematics Journal will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. The Journal has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of the Indiana University Mathematics Journal, over 8,000 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of e-journals is available at http://www.portico.org/about/committed_titles_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 ASME to Preserve Online Journals in Portico Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with ASME to preserve its online collection of 23 titles. Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME promotes the art, science, and practice of mechanical and multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe. Through this agreement with Portico, ASME ensures that the online version of these journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. ASME has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of ASME's journals, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of e-journals is available at http://www.portico.org/about/committed_titles_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 ALPSP and Portico Collaborate on Long-term Digital Preservation Survey Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.alpsp.org). Key Findings
  • The majority of ALPSP publishers who responded to the survey believe long-term preservation to be a critical issue: 91% either agreed or strongly agreed with the statement "Long-term preservation is an issue which urgently needs to be addressed within the industry." 9% were neutral; no-one disagreed.
  • ALPSP publishers are strongly motivated to engage with preservation because of its critical importance to their customers, with over 90% of respondents citing this as a major motivating factor: a heartening response for those in the library community.
  • Although 68% of publishers reported understanding of preservation issues within their organization to be either 'good' or 'reasonable', the survey also revealed a wide range of concerns suggesting an overall lack of confidence, at least for the present. The survey revealed a strong desire amongst almost all publishers for the development of 'best practice' and industry standards.
  • There is some confusion surrounding the nature and extent of publisher participation in long-term preservation schemes, with high numbers of respondents declaring their organization to be participating in one or more initiatives and yet the schemes themselves reporting substantially lower numbers presently taking part.
  • Publisher views on who should take responsibility for long-term preservation also reveal some interesting contradictions: despite presently supporting a range of preservation schemes, a significant majority of publishers indicated they would in fact prefer other groups and institutions to take this responsibility on. National libraries in particular were a popular choice.
  • Finally, the survey revealed most publishers are clear about the distinction between ensuring long-term access and ensuring long-term preservation, with the majority believing they have clear responsibility for long-term access. A worryingly high number however admit to either not trusting their present strategy or not currently having any strategy to deliver here.
About ALPSP ALPSP is the international trade association for non-profit publishers and those who work with them. ALPSP was formed in 1972. Today it is the largest trade association for scholarly and professional publishers. It has more than 360 members in 36 countries, publishing scholarly content in many different ways. Over 10,000 journals are published by ALPSP members as well as numerous books, reports, databases and other products and services. Membership of ALPSP has been taken up by a wide range of different types of publishers - journal publishers, book publishers, learned societies and professional bodies, database publishers, university presses and intergovernmental organizations. The variety and range of the 260+ publisher members and the 100+ associate members who provide services to the sector provides a unique network serving the interests of scholarly publishing worldwide.]]> 0 Walter de Gruyter to Preserve Online Journals in Portico Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Walter de Gruyter to preserve 61 titles from its online journal collection. For more than 250 years, Walter de Gruyter, with headquarters in Berlin and offices in New York, has published books and journals in the humanities and social sciences, including theology, philosophy, biology, chemistry, linguistics, literature, mathematics, physics, history, archaeology, law, and medicine. Through this agreement with Portico, Walter de Gruyter ensures that the online version of these journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. Walter de Gruyter has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of these Walter de Gruyter journals, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of e-journals is available at http://www.portico.org/about/committed_titles_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico and the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Reach Preservation Agreement Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org), has entered into an agreement with the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press to preserve its online journals collection of 15 titles. The Austrian Academy of Sciences, based in Vienna, is the leading organization promoting non-university academic research institutions in Austria. Through this agreement with Portico, the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press ensures that its online journal collection will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. The Press has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press journals, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of e-journals is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Hogrefe & Huber Publishers to Preserve E-Journals in Portico Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Hogrefe & Huber Publishers to preserve its twelve English-language online journals that cover a range of areas in psychology and psychiatry. Through this agreement with Portico, Hogrefe & Huber, based in Gottingen, Germany, ensures that these online journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. Hogrefe has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of Hogrefe's journals, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of e-journals is available at http://www.portico.org/about/committed_titles_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico and Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd. Reach Preservation Agreement Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd. to preserve its online journal, Social Behavior & Personality. SJP Ltd., based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, founded the journal in 1973 to foster scientific communication in the disciplines of social, developmental, and personality psychology. Through this agreement with Portico, SJP Ltd. ensures that the online version of the journal will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. SJP Ltd. has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of Social Behavior and Personality, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of e-journals is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Bentham Open To Preserve Open Access E-Journals in Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org), has entered into an agreement with Bentham Open to preserve its online journals collection. Bentham Open publishes open access journals, exclusively online, in all major disciplines of science, including engineering, mathematics, chemistry, medicine, life sciences, pharmaceutical science, earth sciences, social sciences, and environmental science. Through this agreement with Portico, Bentham Open ensures that its online journal collection will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. Bentham has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of Bentham Open's journals, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of e-journals is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico and Ammons Scientific Ltd. Reach Preservation Agreement Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers (www.portico.org), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Ammons Scientific Ltd. to preserve its two online journals, Perceptual and Motor Skills and Psychological Reports. Ammons Scientific Ltd., based in Missoula, Montana, has published both titles in print since the early 1950s before making them available online to researchers and practitioners in the field of psychology. Through this agreement with Portico, Ammons ensures that its online journal collection will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. Ammons has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of Ammons' publications, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of e-journals is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Co-Action Publishing To Preserve E-Journals With Portico Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Co-Action Publishing to preserve its digital journals collection of three titles. Co-Action Publishing was founded in Sweden in 2007 and from virtual and real offices in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway they have developed an international list of scholarly Open Access journals and books for a global audience. Through this agreement with Portico, Co-Action Publishing ensures that its e-journal collection will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. Co-Action has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of Co-Action Publishing's journals, over 7,700 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico Moves Beyond E-journals: New Digital Preservation Activities Announced at Third Annual Participants' Meeting Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers
  • Portico now preserves scholarly e-books. At ALA, Elsevier, a leading scientific journal, database and book publisher, announced an agreement to preserve in the Portico archive e-book content available in ScienceDirect. (see http://elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.careers/companynews05_00960). Portico is in active discussions with several other e-book publishers and will announce additional agreements as these are finalized.
  • Portico has also initiated preservation activities for digitized newspapers. Discussions with a number of leading publishers of current and historical digitized newspapers are underway, and we will keep the community apprised as these move ahead.
  • Portico also announced a new service to enable libraries to preserve locally created/digitized electronic scholarly materials within the Portico archive. Fifteen institutions have agreed to work with Portico in the introductory phase of this service. These institutions include:
    • American University
    • Baylor University
    • Binghamton University
    • Brigham Young University
    • California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    • City University of New York
    • Colorado State University
    • McMaster University
    • Middlebury Colleg
    • Northwestern University
    • Trinity College, Dublin
    • University of British Columbia
    • University of Notre Dame
    • University of Queensland (Australia)
    • Vassar College
    • Portico expects to open this service to interested libraries in mid-2009. For more than a decade the scholarly community has expressed concerns about preservation, in particular for e-journals, and Portico's digital preservation service was launched in late 2005 in direct response to this need. As new preservation needs are brought to Portico's attention by both libraries and publishers, Portico is working to respond to these needs in ways that allow us to more fully meet our mission to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to future generations of scholars, researchers and students. Portico's new activities will proceed as preservation of the more than 7,700 journals committed to the Portico archive continues. To obtain additional information about participation in Portico or about these preservation activities see www.portico.org or contact us to submit queries.]]>     0     Italian University Libraries Join Portico to Support Digital Preservation Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Portico and digital preservation. The complete list of participating libraries is available at http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html. For more information about Portico participation, please contact us. More information about CARE is available at http://www.crui-care.it.]]> 0 Portico Participants' Meeting at ALA | Invitation and Agenda Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers
  • The extension of Portico’s preservation capabilities to include e-books and d-newspapers, and
  • A service to enable libraries to preserve locally created/digitized electronic scholarly materials within the Portico archive.
    • Also on the program is Nancy Maron, a Senior Research Associate from Ithaka Strategic Services who will summarize results from the Portico/Ithaka 2008 survey on libraries' e-journal preservation perceptions and strategies. So we can make appropriate arrangements for breakfast, it would be helpful if you could let us know by June 25th if you will be in attendance. To RSVP, please contact us. We look forward to seeing you in Anaheim, CA.]]>     0     Portico and Ithaka Release Results of Digital Preservation Survey of U.S. Library Directors Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Urgent Action" to preserve scholarly e-journals. Over two years later in January 2008, Portico and Ithaka invited 1,371 library directors of four-year colleges and universities in the United States to respond to a survey examining current perspectives on the preservation of e-journals. This survey finds widespread agreement that the potential loss of e-journals is unacceptable, and a significant majority of library directors believe their own institution has a responsibility to take action to prevent an intolerable loss of the scholarly record. Most larger libraries responding now support one or more e-journal preservation initiatives; however, the majority of respondents from smaller libraries have yet to support any preservation effort and secure permanent access to e-journals for their institutions. The survey findings raise a range of important questions about how the responsibility for preservation of critical electronic resources should be supported by the community, even as electronic resources expenditures expand substantially at libraries across the spectrum. We hope that this report will be a catalyst for leaders of libraries, consortia, and other organizations to continue the important strategic discussions begun in 2005 about the urgent digital preservation need. The full report is available for download and readers are also invited to share comments and reactions in the provided discussion space.]]> 0 Portico and Equinox Publishing Reach Digital Preservation Agreement Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico Participants' Meeting at ALA | Save the Date Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers
  • Preserving e-books and digitized newspapers;
  • Addressing libraries' local preservation needs;
  • Results from 2008 survey on libraries' e-journal preservation perceptions and strategies;
  • Report on e-journal preservation progress.
    • A more detailed agenda will be announced as we approach the meeting date, but I hope that you will mark your calendars now and plan to attend. If you have any questions about the program or Portico, please contact us. We look forward to seeing you in Anaheim, CA. Best regards, Ken DiFiore Associate Director, Library Relations]]>     0     Australian Academic Press reaches preservation agreement with Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org, is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with the Australian Academic Press to preserve its entire digital journals collection of 14 titles. Australian Academic Press, based in Queensland, is a niche academic publisher of books and journals for the behavioral sciences, specializing in psychology. Through this agreement with Portico, Australian Academic Press ensures that its digital journal collection will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. The Press has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has designated the Portico Archive as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of the Australian Academic Press publications, over 7,500 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 American Astronomical Society to archive journals with Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Irish Universities Association Supporting Digital Preservation via Portico Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • National University of Ireland, Galway
  • University College Cork
  • Dublin City University
  • University College Dublin
  • University of Limerick
  • National University of Ireland, Maynooth
    • Through its support of the Portico archive the Irish Research Electronic Library (IReL) program - a national initiative under the aegis of the IUA and Science Foundation Ireland designed to provide online access to thousands of quality peer-reviewed research publications across a range of disciplines - incorporates long-term digital preservation and access protection for a growing number of titles. Robin Adams, Librarian of Trinity College Dublin and Secretary of the IUA Librarians' Group described the decision to participate in Portico as a "cost effective means for the IUA to address digital preservation responsibilities and to protect the substantial investment made in the IReL which provides an internationally competitive research infrastructure to Ireland's universities." Eileen Fenton, Executive Director of Portico noted "We are pleased the IUA has chosen to support Portico's community-based approach to digital preservation. The IUA's decision highlights the benefits of sharing the costs of 'digital preservation insurance' across an international and growing community of libraries and scholarly publishers working cooperatively to accomplish robust digital preservation." The IUA libraries join more than 400 libraries from 11 countries in supporting Portico and digital preservation. The complete list of participating libraries is available at http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html. For more information about Portico participation, please contact us. More information about the IUA is available at http://www.iua.ie/.]]>     0     Royal Society of Chemistry to archive journals with Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 The American Society for Cell Biology reaches agreement with Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico announces preservation agreement with Edinburgh University Press Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Africa and Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research and through Portico, it provides for the ongoing preservation of its electronic current issues. Working in collaboration, JSTOR, Portico and Edinburgh University Press also intend to include the born-digital versions of the Press' titles in JSTOR in accordance with the moving wall. As part of the agreement, Edinburgh University Press will make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims on behalf of the journals it owns. With the inclusion of the EUP publications, over 7,400 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico announces agreement with the National Library of the Netherlands Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org. A copy of the signed Archive Preservation Agreement between the KB and Portico is available. Additional information about the KB's digital preservation program, including the e-Depot, is available at http://www.kb.nl/dnp/e-depot/e-depot-en.html.]]> 0 Portico announces preservation agreement with the American Economic Association Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico to archive The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, British Volume Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, British Volume, as its newest publisher participant. The Journal has been published by The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, a registered charity in the UK, since 1948. Through this agreement with Portico, the current and back issues of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, British Volume, will be preserved for future scholars, practitioners, researchers and students. In addition, the Society has agreed to make an annual financial contribution to support Portico's ongoing operations and has designated Portico as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, British Volume, over 7,400 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Royal Society of Medicine Press to archive journals with Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 MIT Press titles to be preserved by Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico Archive Exceeds 3.6 Million Articles Archived Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Libraries have also been supportive of Portico. As of this writing, nearly 400 from the global community have become participants http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html, and this group of early supporters is formally recognized as Archive Founders. In acknowledgment of their commitment to preservation, Portico provides Archive Founders with a saving in each year for the first five years of their participation. Eligibility for the Archive Founder program closes on December 31, 2007. Libraries interesting in learning more about Portico should contact us.]]> 0 Portico Archive Supports First Trigger Event Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Graft: Organ and Cell Transplantation, published by SAGE Publications from January 2001 to March 2003, will be removed from SAGE's online offering at the end of this year creating the first ever trigger event for the Portico archive and Portico's participating publishers and libraries. Because SAGE Publications, a leading international publisher of electronic media, journals and books, has ensured that Graft is preserved in the Portico archive and because Graft will not be offered by any other commercial online source, Portico will "light up" this portion of the Portico archive and provide access to literature that otherwise would be lost to the scholarly community. Through this first trigger event Portico demonstrates how publishers, archives, and libraries can cooperatively provide a permanent archive of scholarly literature published in electronic form and avoid a permanent gap in the scholarly record. On December 3, 2007, Portico will make Graft available to its library participants via the Portico website and access via SAGE will end December 31, 2007. In the coming days, Portico will forward to its library participants instructions for accessing Graft. In the meantime, if you would like more information about Portico, or would like to discuss your institution's participation in Portico, please contact us. PLEASE NOTE: Access to Graft will be made available to all libraries and publishers participating in Portico without regard to whether their institution has previously subscribed to this title.]]> 0 Portico to archive Palgrave Macmillan titles Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Springer titles to be preserved by Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico announces preservation agreement with the American Marketing Association Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico announces preservation agreement with the American Society of Clinical Oncology Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. to archive journals with Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.liebertpub.com) is universally acknowledged for publishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals, books, and trade magazines in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, environmental studies, philanthropy, and law. Through this agreement with Portico, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. ensures that its entire online journal collection is preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has designated the Archive as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publications, over 6,200 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Nature Publishing Group to archive <cite>Nature</cite> and NPG journals with Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Nature, the world's foremost weekly scientific journal and the flagship journal for NPG, and all journals owned by NPG. NPG publishes journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content encompasses daily news from award-winning journalists, expert opinion and practical methodology, and more high impact research and reviews than any science publisher. NPG also publishes a number of journals in association with prestigious academic societies, most of which are expected to opt into the Portico agreement in the coming months. Through this agreement with Portico, NPG ensures that its publications are preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. NPG has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has designated the Archive as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of NPG's publications, over 6,200 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Seismological Society of America signs archiving agreement with Portico to preserve the <cite>Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America</cite> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. The Seismological Society of America is a scientific society devoted to the advancement of earthquake science. Founded in 1906 in San Francisco, the Society now has members throughout the world representing a variety of technical interests: seismologists and other geophysicists, geologists, engineers, insurers, and policy-makers in preparedness and safety. Through this agreement with Portico, SSA ensures that the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America is preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. In addition to supplying journal content, the SSA has agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico. With the inclusion of SSA publications, over 6,100 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Optical Society of America to archive journals with Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Portico Hosts 2<sup>nd</sup> Annual Participants' Meeting Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers nd Annual Participants' Meeting. The meeting featured presentations by Anne Kenney, Interim University Librarian, Cornell University Library and Richard Fyffe, Librarian of the College, Grinell College. Ms. Kenney reviewed the findings and recommendations of the 2006 report from the Council on Library and Information (CLIR) that compared the 12 major e-journal archiving initiatives while Mr. Fyffe offered his perspective on how the lessons learned about print preservation can be useful in the community's efforts to preserve digital materials. Eileen Fenton, Portico's Executive Director, provided an update on library and publisher participation in the e-journal archiving service and outlined Portico's recent technology expansion to increase the Archive's journal ingestion rate. The following PDF files are available for download: Eileen Fenton's Presentation Richard Fyffe's Presentation Anne Kenney's Presentation]]> 0 Portico conducts E-Book Preservation Study Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers contact us to submit any input.]]> 0 Librarians Talk about Archiving, Preservation and Portico (<a href="Case_Studies_072507.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>) Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers remain unprotected. Most publishers and libraries are still working to develop archival strategies and identify appropriate partners. At this point, two certainties stand in sharp relief. First, building and sustaining effective and robust preservation solutions requires broad support from a diverse array of publishers and libraries. Second, in this dynamic environment much can be gained by active communications and sharing of experiences among responsible parties. To address in a small way the community's need for open communications, three libraries participating in Portico have agreed to share their perspective on digital preservation and strategies being developed at their institutions. We share these perspectives with you in the hope they may usefully contribute to discussions underway at your organization. We appreciate the openness and unique voices of the colleagues whose perspectives follow, and we look forward to hearing from others as digital preservation strategies continue to be developed. At Portico we look forward to continuing to learn and communicate with our librarian and publisher colleagues. I hope that you will feel free to be in touch with Portico or myself directly if you have any questions or experiences to share. Sincerely, Eileen Fenton Executive Director, Portico eileen.fenton@portico.org  
      Linda Connors Head, Acquisitions & Collection Development Department, Library Drew University New Jersey, United States "Like many other small institutions, Drew University does not have adequate funding to pay for both print and online versions of journals if the online version costs extra; with the exception of titles in JSTOR, Project Muse and similar collections we have retained print subscriptions. For all JSTOR journals for which our holdings are incomplete or split between bound volumes and microform, we withdraw all bound volumes and microform from circulation. This policy recognizes that a catalog listing with multiple formats and locations is confusing to users and that some users have assumed that a partial run means that JSTOR does not include those particular volumes. In a few cases where we have a complete run of a journal in bound volumes and only in a subject where we offer the Ph.D degree, we have retained the bound volumes. We may re-think this decision in the future. "Despite our users' preference for electronic journals, we have been reluctant to move in that direction exclusively, in part, because of our concern about maintaining an electronic archive. We simply would not be able to do this on our own and thus would be relying on the journal publisher to maintain its archive, and understanding that, we became an Archive Founder of Portico in 2006. "Keeping in mind that access to Portico requires a trigger event, we have decided that with the 2008 renewals, we will convert to electronic-only all those titles which are committed to Portico. As additional titles become part of Portico we will mark them for conversion to electronic with the next renewal cycle. We are applying this decision across-the-board: we are not agonizing over whether Professor X really prefers print or whether the illustrations in a given subject are better in print (and as one colleague pointed out, if you photocopy from an art journal, it's in black and white. If you print from the electronic, it's in color). "Our library is also using this information to plan for future growth in the periodicals stacks and we are canceling the corresponding microform subscriptions. This policy recognizes that patrons rarely want to browse scholarly journals in print. What they want to do is find the citation and click through to the full-text article. Portico allows us to provide the electronic journal this year without worrying whether the electronic version will continue to be available in future years. We anticipate considerable savings in time: electronic issues do not have to be checked in, stamped with ownership marks, shelved and re-shelved, gathered and sent to the bindery or be replaced by microform."  
      Jeffrey L. Horrell Dean of Libraries and Librarian of the College Dartmouth College Library Dartmouth College New Hampshire, United States "As many research libraries are faced with the challenge of meeting the expectations, demands, and necessity (now often with a single e-format) of providing electronic journals, we have the responsibility of developing a strategy for preserving them. We believe, at this early stage of thinking and planning, we need to take advantage of multiple approaches to the preservation of the varied electronic formats we purchase or license. It is not certain what models or services will ultimately be successful but we cannot wait, for the real and perceived risk is too great not to make reasonable commitments. Our approach at Dartmouth, a private four-year liberal arts college, is to participate in projects or services which fit within this strategy. "Early on Dartmouth joined the LOCKSS alliance as one mechanism for attempting to preserve those titles under their responsibility.With the announcement of the establishment of Portico, we felt it was an excellent program for preserving a continually expanding array of scholarly electronic journals. The ever-growing list of contributing publishers and titles is at the center of the content we feel must make arrangements for ongoing access. We see Portico as an "insurance policy" in the event of problems of access from the publisher or if, for some reason, we must discontinue a license and need ongoing access, provided by the original terms of our agreement. The credibility of Portico, with its roots in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the collaboration with JSTOR in this area, is very strong. It is clear that serious and realistic thought has been given to creating Portico and it provides a level of assurance that we are doing what we can for this aspect of our collections. In the end, it is a matter of trust that Portico will be there and we have confidence in them. Another important aspect of our support of Portico is the collaboration of publishers and libraries as we see this as equally beneficial. Also, sharing the costs is vital to making this successful. We are now routinely asking potential vendors in license negotiations if they are participating in Portico and if not, why not? "In terms of our overall strategy for preserving electronic content, we see Portico as one piece of the whole. We realize we need to build or outsource other parts of the infrastructure for different formats and categories of our collections. Portico helps us with our discussions with faculty and students about storage decisions for print knowing that we may not need to maintain certain materials or they may be stored off-site. We believe the Portico concept could be expanded to other formats. Portico has a solid plan and infrastructure to support it."  
      Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer UCL (University College, London) London, United Kingdom "UCL is a large, research-led University in the centre of London. The strategy of UCL Library Services is to keep researchers in Science, Technology and Medicine out of the library buildings altogether. Instead, the Library wishes to offer electronic delivery to its users 24x7, anytime, any place, anywhere. "One of the great constraints in moving to e-only delivery – canceling our paper copies – is the lack of trusted digital archive arrangements. For 2007, UCL has engaged in a pilot whereby just over 500 journal titles have been cancelled in paper copy, where the digital equivalent exists in Portico. UCL will rely on publishers for e-delivery and will rely on Portico for digital archiving and providing long-term trusted digital access when defined trigger events lead to loss of access to publishers' content. UCL became an Archive Founder member of Portico in December 2006. Should the pilot be successful, UCL believes that it will have a scaleable option for managing the entirety of it research collections of journal literature. "UCL Library Services sees digital curation as one of the deliverables of its new Library Strategy. In the LIFE project, a collaboration with the British Library, LIFE (Phase 1) has developed a Generic Preservation Model for costing digital curation at an item level: preservation equals technology watch plus preservation frequency multiplied by overall preservation action. "All this fits into a formula for identifying the whole lifecycle costs of digital objects over time. LIFE (Phase 2) is further refining and developing the formulae. The result will establish benchmarks for local digital curation services in a University or National Library. It is irresponsible to create or store digital objects and not to curate them digitally. The result of this work will facilitate the creation of a local digital curation service in UCL Library Services. "However, UCL does not see itself as having a role in the e-curation of e-journals. It looks to Portico and similar offerings for this and is happy to work in collaboration with partners to support the maintenance of trusted digital repositories across the globe. The landscape in information provision is fast-changing, and digital curation marks an important step on the road to research libraries being able to achieve key strategic goals."  ]]>     0     Portico Unveils Holdings Comparison Service Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Libraries interested in learning more about Portico's Holdings Comparison Service should contact us.]]> 0 Portico Participants' Meeting at ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers ALA 2007 logo Saturday, June 23, 2007 8:30 - 10:00 AM EST Continental Breakfast begins at 8:00 a.m. Formal Program from 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel 1000 H Street NW, Washington D.C. Portico is pleased to invite you and your colleagues to our second Portico Participants' Meeting to be held during this year's ALA Annual Conference in Washington D.C. The meeting – open to those interested in learning about Portico and to all participating libraries and publishers – will take place on Saturday, June 23rd in the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel. A continental breakfast will be offered at 8:00 a.m., and the program will run from 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. A detailed agenda is provided below. So we can make appropriate arrangements for breakfast, it would be helpful if you could let us know by June 20th if you or your colleagues will be in attendance. Please contact us to submit confirmations or call us at (212) 358 6442. If you are unable to attend the meeting but would like to learn more about Portico's activities, several members of Portico's senior staff are available to meet during the conference from Friday, June 21st thru Sunday, June 24th: Eileen Fenton, Executive Director; Ken DiFiore, Associate Director for Library Relations; Toni Tracy, Director of Publisher Relations. Please contact us to schedule a meeting. We look forward to seeing you in Washington D.C.! Agenda
    1. Welcome Eileen Fenton, Executive Director, Portico
    2. A presentation on the major findings of the e-journal archiving initiatives survey published by the Council on Library and Information Resources Report in September 2006 Anne Kenney, Interim University Librarian, Cornell University Library
    3. A presentation of one college's perspective on the digital preservation challenge and its impact upon the library Richard Fyffe, Librarian of the College, Grinnell College
    4. An update on the expanding archiving services that Portico is pursuing Eileen Fenton, Executive Director, Portico
    ]]>     0     SPIE to archive Digital Library with Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Portico signs archiving agreement with the American Society of Civil Engineers Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 <strong>American Accounting Association to preserve journals with Portico</strong> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers The Accounting Review, with JSTOR since 1998. Through this agreement with Portico, the AAA ensures that its 13 journals are preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. In addition, the AAA has designated the Portico archive as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of AAA journals, over 6,100 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of journal titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 <strong>ICDDR, B signs archiving agreement with Portico to preserve <cite>Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition</cite></strong> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition (incorporating the Journal of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research) will be preserved for future scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. ICDDR, B has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has designated the Portico archive as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of the ICDDR, B publication, over 6,000 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of journal titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 <strong>Portico to preserve journal collection from CSIRO Publishing</strong> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 <strong>American Meteorological Society to archive journals with Portico</strong> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 <strong><strong>Portico announces preservation agreement with the American Chemical Society </strong></strong> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Lawrence Erlbaum titles to be preserved by Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/news/102406.html), LEA's entire journal collection, including those under the imprint of The Analytic Press, will be preserved for future generations of students, educators, clinicians, scholars, and researchers. With the inclusion of Lawrence Erlbaum journal publications, over 5,900 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of journal titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Portico to preserve journal collection from Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Executive Director's Summary of 2006 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Titles committed to the archive are listed at: http://www.portico.org/about/committed_titles_alpha.html. Publishers not only committed their titles to Portico this past year, but they also began to submit their content for ingest and normalization in the archive. As the year ended, more than 343,000 articles from 587 titles representing seven publishers had been preserved. Archived content may be viewed by librarians for audit and verification purposes via the Portico website, which is operated and maintained for us by JSTOR. This portion of the website was activated in September, and passwords were distributed to designated librarians at participating institutions. The initial group of Portico library participants, or "Archive Founders", was also remarkable. At the close of 2006, 351 libraries were eligible for this designation, covering a spectrum of institutions from small liberal arts colleges to large university systems. Interestingly, almost 25% of the participation from this initial group came from eight countries outside the U.S. In addition, Portico initiated agreements with 20 different consortia, which were instrumental in educating their constituents about e-archiving in general and Portico in particular. Throughout our library discussions, it has been clear that regardless of institution size, librarians are now actively formulating archival strategies appropriately matched to institutional preservation needs. A full listing of library participants is available at: http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html, and consortia at: http://www.portico.org/libraries/consortia.html. Throughout the year Portico was also actively engaged in a variety of initiatives within the preservation community. For instance, we participated in the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) project to develop formal repository audit and certification procedures. This project included hosting a test audit of the Portico archive by CRL in March, and a report on the project is forthcoming from CRL. We also participated in meetings of the members of the Library of Congress' National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) network and continued our service on the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) DTD Advisory Board. In addition, Portico staff shared the results of our early work at more than 20 conferences and over 100 library and consortia visits throughout the year. Although 2006 was a very full year, 2007 promises to be even busier! Our priorities for this year are clear. We will work to significantly increase the scale of our ingest operations to effectively manage the growing body of content that has been entrusted to our care. We will continue to broaden our publisher and library participant base, and we will continue to enhance our communications with the community, seeking especially to strengthen our capacity to communicate details of the archive's holdings as they grow. As Portico's work progresses, we are mindful that we carry out our archival role on behalf of the publishers and libraries that have collaborated with us to make this reliable, permanent journal archive a reality. We very much appreciate the opportunity to work with the community in furtherance of the important digital preservation agenda. Over the past months, I have heard from many of you directly regarding Portico's contributions to this agenda, and I have been grateful for your continued willingness to offer advice and suggestions. Your input has strengthened and informed our efforts in many ways, and I hope that you will continue to feel free to be in touch with me directly with any questions, comments, or suggestions that you might have. I look forward to hearing from you and wish you the best for the coming spring. Sincerely, Eileen Fenton Executive Director, Portico Please see the Executive Director's Summary of 2006 (PDF) for a printer-formatted version of this letter.]]> 0 The Ecological Society of America and Portico sign archiving agreement Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Portico to archive journals owned by Cambridge University Press Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 American Mathematical Society journals now preserved in Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, and Mathematics of Computation among other titles. Through its archiving agreement with Portico the AMS continues its strong commitment to preservation of its publications. Since 1996, AMS has been archiving its four flagship print publications with JSTOR and by archiving its electronic current content with Portico, the AMS has assured the future availability of the complete publication run of these four titles for future scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. In addition to supplying journal content, AMS has agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has designated the Archive as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of AMS journal publications, over 375,000 articles have been preserved within the Portico archive. The complete list of journal titles committed to the archive is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 IEEE signs archiving agreement with Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 UK Serials Group journal, <cite>Serials</cite>, fully archived in Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Serials for the international serials community. Portico has preserved the more than 900 articles which constitute Serials' entire 18-year publication history (March 1998 through the present). Consistent with Portico's archival approach, bibliographic metadata has been normalized to Portico's archival format and preserved alongside all the original source files. Portico will further migrate source files in the future as necessary to ensure continued usability. Portico will continue to receive, normalize and preserve new Serials content as it is published. The UKSG was formed to encourage the exchange of ideas on printed and electronic serials and the process of scholarly communication. In doing this, UKSG, a non-profit membership organization, hopes to promote the discussion and "free flow of information on serials matters and associated technology." Serials contains "topical articles written by librarians, publishers, aggregators and other experts within the global serials industry, as well as conference reports, editorial comment and people in the news." With the inclusion of the UKSG journal publication, Serials, the Portico archive now contains over 330,000 articles. The complete list of journals promised to the archive is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html, and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Duke University Press and Portico sign archiving agreement Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Portico announces preservation collaboration with the American Psychological Association Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 The University of California Press partners with Portico for preserving journal content Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Portico to archive journal collection from American Physical Society Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Physical Review, Physical Review Letters and Reviews of Modern Physics. As part of the agreement, APS will make an annual financial contribution to support Portico's ongoing operations. With the inclusion of APS journal publications, over 5,300 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of journal titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Haworth Press to archive journals with Portico Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Portico signs agreement with ALPSP to archive <cite>Learned Publishing</cite> Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Learned Publishing journal will be preserved for future scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. Learned Publishing is an international journal containing peer-reviewed research, topical articles, editorials, books reviews, and other reports on major issues facing the world of academic publishing. In addition, ALPSP has agreed to make an annual financial contribution to support Portico's ongoing operations and has designated Portico as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of ALPSP's journal, over 5,100 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of journal titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. A current list of participating libraries is available at http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 NRC Research Press and Portico sign archiving agreement Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers NRC Research Press and Portico sign archiving agreement Portico is pleased to announce the signing of a journal archiving agreement with NRC Research Press. The NRC Research Press is the publishing arm of the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI). In addition to journals, the Press publishes a growing number of books and conference proceedings each year in fields ranging from botany to civil engineering. Through this agreement with Portico, NRC Research Press makes certain it's entire collection of 16 journal titles is preserved for future scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. In addition, NRC Research Press has agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has designated the Portico archive as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of NRC Research Press journal publications, over 5,100 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of journal titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. A current list of participating libraries is available at http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.]]> 0 Portico announces journal preservation agreement with Taylor & Francis Group Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html .]]> 0 The Johns Hopkins University Press Partners with Portico for Preserving Journal Content Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico to archive e-journal collection from Copernicus Publications Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico to archive <cite>The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - American Volume</cite> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - American Volume will be preserved for future scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. In addition, JBJS® has agreed to make an annual financial contribution to support Portico's ongoing operations and has designated Portico as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - American Volume , over 3,700 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The list of participating publishers is available at http://portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Now Publishers Inc. to archive Foundations and Trends® series with Portico Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Quarterly Journal of Political Science and International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics. As part of the agreement with Portico, Now Publishers Inc. will make an annual financial contribution to support the Archive's ongoing operations. With the inclusion of journals from Now Publishers Inc., over 3,700 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The list of participating publishers is available at http://portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico welcomes Institute of Physics Publishing as newest publisher participant. Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Journal of Physics series, are preserved for future scholars, researchers, and students. As part of the agreement, IOPP will make an annual financial contribution to support Portico's ongoing operations. With the inclusion of journals from IOPP, over 3,600 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The list of participating publishers is available at http://portico.org/about/part_publishers.html . If you would like more information about Portico, or would like to discuss your institution's participation in Portico, please do not hesitate to contact us.]]> 0 Overview of Inaugural Portico Participants' Meeting<br> ALA Annual Conference, 2006, New Orleans Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers slides and lists of participating publishers and committed libraries, are available.]]> 0 The American Institute of Physics partners with Portico to preserve electronic journals Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Annual Reviews and Portico sign archiving agreement Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico announces journal preservation agreement with BioOne Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers http://portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 Portico to archive journal collection from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org). SIAM was founded in 1952 with a mission to “ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities.” Their publications reach an international membership that exceeds 10,000 people. SIAM joins the growing list of society publishers that have chosen to work collectively with JSTOR and Portico to preserve their journal content. For the past ten years, JSTOR has been preserving three SIAM journals, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, and SIAM Review. Through this archiving agreement with Portico, SIAM makes certain its entire collection is preserved for future scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. SIAM has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to support Portico’s ongoing operations and has designated Portico as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of SIAM’s journal publications, over 3,400 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The list of participating publishers is available at http://portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 SAGE Publications archives journal content with Portico Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers SAGE Publications to its rapidly growing list of publisher participants. SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for the academic, educational, and professional markets. They publish in a wide range of academic disciplines, including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine. Since 1998, SAGE has archived 13 of its titles with JSTOR. Through this agreement with Portico, SAGE enhances this long-standing commitment to preserving its journal content by archiving all of its 425 journal titles with Portico and, in combination with JSTOR, ensuring its entire collection will be available for future scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. In addition to supplying content, SAGE has agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has designated the Portico archive as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of SAGE Publications, over 3,400 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The list of participating publishers is available at http://portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.]]> 0 The University of Chicago Press Partners with Portico for Preserving E-journal Content Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Journal of Geology, Library Quarterly, Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, and Social Science Review. By joining Portico, UCP is building upon its existing relationship with JSTOR. In addition to the 4 journals now part of the Portico archiving service, UCP provides for the long-term preservation of an additional 35 journals through its participation in JSTOR. JSTOR will preserve the e-versions of these titles using the Portico archiving infrastructure it helped to develop and continues to support. It is expected that, in the future, the e-versions of these titles will be accessible through JSTOR in accordance with the moving wall. UCP is the latest publisher to commit journal content to the Portico archive. They join the American Anthropological Association, the American Mathematical Society, Berkeley Electronic Press, Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Oxford University Press, Symposium Journals, and the UK Serials Group as publisher participants in Portico. University of Chicago Press Release]]> 0 Portico Announces Preservation Collaboration with the American Anthropological Association Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers American Anthropologist – the oldest and most widely circulated title from the Association. Portico's partnership with the American Anthropological Association ensures these valuable journals will be preserved for future students, researchers, and scholars in the field of anthropology. In addition to supplying their journal title list in Portico, the AAA has agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has designated the Portico archive as the official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. The AAA's journals are published by the University of California Press, one of the oldest scholarly publishers in the United States. The AAA joins the American Mathematical Association, Oxford University Press, Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Berkeley Electronic Press, Symposium Journals, and UK Serials Group as publisher participants in the Portico archive. American Anthropological Association Press Release]]> 0 Oxford University Press Signs Agreement with Portico to Archive Electronic Journals Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers www.portico.org). OUP will make an annual financial contribution to support Portico's ongoing operations – based on their total journal revenues (subscriptions, licensing, and advertising) – and has designated Portico as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. OUP joins the growing list of Portico publisher participants, including Elsevier, John Wiley and Sons, Berkeley Electronic Press, American Mathematical Society, Symposium Journals, and UK Serials Group. Oxford University Press Release]]> 0 Portico Announces Archive Support Payment for Libraries Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers San Antonio, TX, January 22, 2006 - Portico, a not-for profit electronic archiving service, announced today its Annual Archive Support payment for participating libraries. Initiated by JSTOR in 2002, Portico builds upon and significantly advances JSTOR’s efforts to provide a trusted and reliable community-based archive for electronic scholarly journals. The library support payment announced today will help Portico defray the cost of ongoing archive operations. The Annual Archive Support payment for libraries are based on the total library materials expenditure (LME) for an individual institution, with payments ranging from $1,500 to $24,000 per annum. Libraries that initiate support for Portico in 2006 or 2007 will be designated "Portico Archive Founders". Those beginning their support in 2006 will receive a 25% savings on the Annual Archive Support fee for five (5) years, and those starting in 2007 will receive a 10% savings for five (5) years. Portico is also committed to working with library systems and consortia, and will offer additional modest savings to libraries that participate via groups working with Portico. For more than two years, the Portico team has worked to develop the necessary technologies to ingest, normalize, and maintain these important, yet vulnerable, electronic scholarly journals. In addition, Portico has engaged in extensive discussions with stakeholders in the scholarly publishing industry to build an archive model that balances the needs of publishers and libraries. Publishers from both North America and Europe have committed to archiving their electronic journals with Portico. These include: Elsevier, American Mathematical Society, UK Serials Group, Symposium Journals, and The Berkeley Electronic Press. Materials presented at the 2006 ALA Midwinter Conference, January 22, 2006: (The audio files can be downloaded and played with Windows Media Player. For PC users, right-click and then "save target as". For Mac users, hold down the control key as you click on the link. If you do not have Windows Media Player on your computer, you can download it for both Macs and PCs. )]]> 0 Elsevier Selects Portico as Official e-Journal Archive Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers Amsterdam, December 20, 2005 - Elsevier has announced that Portico, a nonprofit electronic archiving service, will be an official e-journal archive for the company. The partnership with Portico will ensure that the over 2,100 current and formerly published journals on Elsevier's ScienceDirect service are preserved in a permanent archive for posterity. Elsevier has long been a leader in the area of permanent e-journal preservation and an advocate of publisher responsibility for digital archiving. In 1996 Elsevier began depositing e-copies of its Dutch imprint journals with the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands. Discussions with the KB continued in 2000 for it to become Elsevier's first official archive, leading to the current agreement to archive all Elsevier ScienceDirect journals. Since that time, Elsevier has been seeking additional trusted third parties around the world to be official archives and the new agreement with Portico is a major step in this global plan. "Partnering with Portico was a natural choice in continuing our goal of permanent archiving. Portico's mission and guiding principles are in line with Elsevier's own commitment to preserving the integrity of the scholarly and scientific record," said Karen Hunter, Senior Vice President at Elsevier. "Researchers, librarians and publishers alike recognize the need for digital archives to be protected and preserved for future generations of scholars and researchers. In partnering with Portico, Elsevier is assuring that Elsevier journal titles will be available in perpetuity." Elsevier's collaboration with Portico coincides with a recent matching grant from the Library of Congress made to Portico. The three million dollar award from the Library of Congress' National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) will assist Portico in their economic model and technical infrastructure building efforts. The grant from the NDIIPP is part of Library of Congress' efforts to achieve permanent archives of digital materials. Digital archiving is particularly critical now with the steady increase in electronic scholarly journals and conversion of library subscriptions to electronic-only, which has sparked concern from academics, librarians and publishers about their long-term availability. "We live in an electronic age that has seen rapid transition to reliance on electronic formats for scholarly works. It is both urgent and important that the community take steps to preserve the scholarship of the past, present and future," said Kevin Guthrie, president of Ithaka and chairman of the JSTOR Board of Trustees. "In supporting and launching Portico, Ithaka and JSTOR are offering the community a concrete way for publishers to secure their content and for libraries to act on their preservation mandate. Our partnership with Elsevier ensures that a substantial and essential core of scientific literature will be preserved." Permanent preservation of journals is a common goal for both libraries and publishers. It is essential to preserve scholarly works. "Successful preservation of electronic journals depends upon cooperation and collaboration between libraries and publishers," said William Bowen, chairman of the Ithaka Board of Trustees and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. "The long-term success of Portico depends on the willingness of publishers like Elsevier to commit to preserving content as well as the willingness of libraries to support the archive's ongoing work. Elsevier's commitment to Portico is a critical step forward in helping to establish a reliable preservation infrastructure for the community." Portico has been in development for more than three years and is now moving into implementation. The more than 7 million Elsevier articles will be loaded into Portico beginning in 2006. Portico is working to build a group of contributing publishers and libraries who will be participating in supporting the Portico archive. ###

    About Portico

    Portico's mission is to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to future generations of scholars, researchers and students (www.portico.org). Portico was initiated by JSTOR (www.jstor.org), a not-for-profit organization, whose activities include responsibility for digitizing, preserving, and providing access to an extensive archive of research literature. Portico continues to be developed with support from JSTOR and Ithaka. Additional support for Portico has been approved by the Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (www.mellon.org).

    About Ithaka

    Supported by the Mellon, Hewlett and Niarchos Foundations, Ithaka is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping accelerate the adoption of productive and efficient uses of information technology for the benefit of the worldwide higher education community. Ithaka's initial focus is on helping promising not-for-profit projects develop sustainable organizational and economic models. www.ithaka.org

    About The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

    The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which is headquartered in New York City, makes grants principally in five core program areas: higher education and scholarship, libraries and scholarly communications, conservation and the environment, museums and art conservation, and performing arts. Additionally, Mellon has been instrumental in the development of ARTstor, JSTOR, and Ithaka, non-profit organizations engaged in various activities to further the use of information technology to benefit higher education around the world.

    About Elsevier

    Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier's 7,000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect, MD Consult, Scopus, bibliographic databases, and online reference works. Elsevier is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).]]>     0     Library of Congress Bestows $3M Dollars Grant to Portico Electronic Archiving Initiative Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 aldenta Newly Signed Publishers BACKGROUND

    National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

    In December 2000 Congress authorized the Library of Congress to develop and execute a congressionally approved plan for a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. A $99.8 million congressional appropriation was made to establish the program. According to Conference Report (H. Rept. 106-1033), "The overall plan should set forth a strategy for the Library of Congress, in collaboration with other federal and nonfederal entities, to identify a national network of libraries and other organizations with responsibilities for collecting digital materials that will provide access to and maintain those materials. … In addition to developing this strategy, the plan shall set forth, in concert with the Copyright Office, the policies, protocols and strategies for the long-term preservation of such materials, including the technological infrastructure required at the Library of Congress." The goal is to build a network of committed partners working through a preservation architecture with defined roles and responsibilities. The complete text of the "Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program" is available at www.digitalpreservation.gov. This includes an explanation of how the plan was developed, who the Library worked with to develop the plan and the key components of the digital preservation infrastructure. The plan was approved by Congress in December 2002. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. Through its National Digital Library (NDL) Program, it is also one of the leading providers of noncommercial intellectual content on the Internet (www.loc.gov). The NDL Program's flagship American Memory project, in collaboration with other institutions nationwide, makes freely available more than 10 million American historical items.

    About Portico

    Portico's program mission is to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to future generations of scholars, researchers and students (www.portico.org). Portico was launched by JSTOR (www.jstor.org) and is currently being developed with support from JSTOR and Ithaka, a nonprofit organization that incubates promising new projects benefiting higher education (www.ithaka.org). Additional support for Portico is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (www.mellon.org). # # # 10-4-05 ISSN 0731-3527]]>     0