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Morgan & Claypool Publishers LLC is an innovative digital publishing company. Its mission is to create “next generation” digital information products to serve the global research and development communities in science and technology.

Michele Moscato, managing director of the PAGEPress publishing house, said, “Digital preservation is an important factor in making sure journal content remains available. We are confident that our partnership with Portico will ensure our authors enjoy reliable, long-term visibility for their work, helping us to maintain our commitment to serve the scientific community and safeguard the spreading of knowledge.”

PAGEPress is an Italian media company that has been developing services for the international medical community since 1992. PAGEPress offers a platform specialized in the online-only publication of scientific journals. PAGEPress also manages the switch that some traditional journals are making towards the Open Access model. The PAGEPress portfolio includes Open Access scientific journals in a wide range of fields, such as medicine, biology, zoology, agriculture, and many others.

Portico will act as a perpetual access mechanism for the titles committed to the archive.

“Hikari Ltd is pleased to have its journals archived in Portico,” stated Emil Minchev, president Hikari Ltd. “Archiving in Portico is a key-factor of the highest standards of scientific publishing.”

Hikari Ltd is a publisher of international journals and books in science, technology, and medicine. Founded in 2005, Hikari Ltd is a rapidly expanding publisher covering a wide range of disciplines. Hikari Ltd serves a large community of scientists and research professionals, and aims to provide high-quality service in scientific publishing.

Portico will act as a perpetual access mechanism for the titles committed to the archive.

“We are happy to be partnering with Portico,” commented John Sylvestre, senior editor, Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health. “It is essential that electronic-only journals like ours have permanent means of preservation. Portico provides a reliable and cost-effective way for us to ensure that our journal remains accessible for years to come.”

Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health provides a forum for Canadian scholars and practitioners with interest in the promotion of positive mental health and the prevention and treatment of mental health problems in community settings. The journal is an interdisciplinary publication devoted to the sharing of information and valid knowledge about phenomena pertinent to the mental well-being of Canadians and their communities.

Portico will act as a perpetual access mechanism for this title.

“PNAS is delighted to work with Portico to ensure digital preservation for PNAS,” said Diane Sullenberger, PNAS executive editor. “Our Librarian Advisory Committee strongly advocated this partnership, which bolsters the PNAS archiving strategy.”

PNAS is one of the world’s most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. Since its establishment in 1914, it has published cutting-edge research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.

Portico will act as a perpetual access mechanism for this title.

Caroline Black, managing director of Portland Press stated, “It is important as a non-profit publisher that we can offer perpetual access to the research submitted to us through our journals, and we are committed to ensuring the long-term accessibility of the research entrusted to our titles. The Portico initiative enables us to guarantee the conservation of this content so that it can be securely archived and made widely available through academic institutions and recognized portals.”

Portland Press Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, is a not-for-profit publisher of journals, books, and electronic resources in the biochemical, cellular, and molecular life sciences. The journals to be preserved in Portico include Biochemical Journal, Clinical Science, Bioscience Reports, Biochemical Society Transactions, Essays in Biochemistry, and ASN NEURO.

Portico will act as a perpetual access mechanism for the titles committed to the archive.

“Archiving with Portico is a hallmark of professionally published journals, and a key element in the long-term success of library-based publishing programs,” stated Irene Perciali, director of Strategic Initiatives at bepress.

The initial addition to Portico’s archives includes 19 journals published by 10 different university libraries and other academic organizations: AcademyHealth, Butler University, Grand Valley State University, Kennesaw State University, Pacific University, Purdue University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Western Kentucky University, and the Global Summitry Project at the University of Toronto.

“We are pleased to be working with bepress, and to further extend our relationship with libraries through this partnership,” commented Kate Wittenberg, managing director of Portico.

About bepress
Founded by professors in 1999, bepress exists to serve academia. Bepress delivers scholarly communications and publishing services for academic institutions, empowering their communities to showcase and share their works. Through their services, bepress seeks to link communities of scholars, listen to their needs, and provide solutions to support emerging academic missions and goals. To learn more about Digital Commons Publishing Services, email publishing.services@bepress.com.

“The university press community has been a long-time supporter of digital preservation,” said Peter Dougherty, president of the Association of American University Presses and director of Princeton University Press. “It’s great to see many AAUP members working with Portico through these relationships.”

With the Books at JSTOR program, Portico will preserve e-books from more than 30 university presses as well as independent not-for-profit organizations. Project Muse and Portico partnered in late 2012 to preserve e-books from more than 70 presses. Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press have been working with Portico since 2006 and 2007 respectively; first to preserve their e-journals and then to preserve their e-books.

“Like many others, the number of e-books we’re publishing continues to grow to meet demand,” stated Charles Watkinson, director, Purdue University Press, which is part of the UPCC Books offering. “Digital preservation of this content has become a pressing issue that our community needs to continue to address.”

The community goes beyond the presses themselves. Nearly two-thirds of the university libraries at these presses’ home institutions also participate in Portico. This collaboration signals the kind of university-wide commitment to preserving scholarly publications that’s needed today. “Portico participation from both university libraries and university presses reflects the founding purpose of Portico—to create a trusted, shared digital preservation archive that the community as a whole can support,” stated Carol Mandel, dean of the division of libraries, New York University and Portico advisor.

Portico’s E-Book Service has more than 170,000 titles committed for preservation. Publishers that support this service range from large commercial publishers to university presses and small independent publishers. More information about this service is available at http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/services/e-book-preservation-service.

About Portico
Portico (www.portico.org) is a digital preservation service for e-journals, e-books, and other scholarly e-content. The Portico archive is certified as a “trustworthy digital repository” by the Center for Research Libraries; more than 15,000 e-journals, more than 170,000 e-books, and 72 d-collections have been entrusted to it. For a complete list of Portico-related facts and figures, please visit Portico Archive Facts & Figures.

“We are delighted to be partnering with Portico,” said Tim Williams, managing director, Edward Elgar Publishing. “We consulted widely with librarians before developing Elgaronline, our new electronic book and journal platform, to ensure we created a product that met library requirements and was an easy acquisition decision. Digital preservation is clearly an important component of the additional value that libraries get when using publisher platforms and many of our largest customers work closely with Portico.”

Founded in 1986, Edward Elgar (http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/) is an international family-run publisher in economics, finance, business and management, law and public policy. Elgaronline will launch with more than 2,000 monograph and reference book titles and a growing list of journals. Elgar publishes more than 300 e-book titles each year.

Portico will act as a perpetual access mechanism for both Edward Elgar’s e-journals and e-books.