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Past News: 2008

Bentham Open To Preserve Open Access E-Journals in Portico

Portico, a digital preservation service for the scholarly community (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 … Read More


Portico and Ammons Scientific Ltd. Reach Preservation Agreement

Portico, a digital preservation service for the scholarly community (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 … Read More


Co-Action Publishing To Preserve E-Journals With Portico

Portico, a digital preservation service for the scholarly community
(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 … Read More


Portico Moves Beyond E-journals: New Digital Preservation Activities Announced at Third Annual Participants’ Meeting

Portico, a not-for-profit digital preservation service, introduced three expansions of its preservation work at its third annual Participants’ Meeting, held during the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. In direct response to preservation concerns expressed by libraries and publishers, Portico is moving beyond e-journal preservation.

Portico now preserves scholarly e-books
At ALA, Elsevier, … Read More


Italian University Libraries Join Portico to Support Digital Preservation

Portico is pleased to announce that 30 academic libraries in Italy have begun participation in the Portico archive. These libraries joined Portico as part of a digital preservation initiative directed by the Italian Coordination for Access to Electronic Resources group (CARE). Established by the Permanent Conference of the Rectors of Italian Universities (CRUI) in 2005, … Read More


06.20.08

Portico Participants’ Meeting at ALA | Invitation and Agenda

Portico is pleased to invite you to our third annual Participants’
Meeting during this year’s ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim,
CA. The meeting – open to those interested in learning more about
Portico and to all participating libraries and publishers – will
take place on Saturday, June 28, 2008, in the Marquis Ballroom
Northeast, Anaheim Marriott Hotel, 700 West Convention … Read More


Portico and Ithaka Release Results of Digital Preservation Survey of U.S. Library Directors

In September 2005, library directors from 17 universities and colleges met to discuss the current state of electronic journal preservation and endorsed a statement calling for ”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 … Read More


Portico and Equinox Publishing Reach Digital Preservation Agreement

Portico is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Equinox Publishing to preserve its entire digital journals collection of 28 titles. Equinox Publishing is an independent publisher founded in London in 2003 and they publish both journals and books on a variety of subjects for an academic audience.
Through this agreement … Read More


05.20.08

Portico Participants’ Meeting at ALA | Save the Date

Dear Colleagues –
Please save the date and plan to join us for our third Portico
Participants’ Meeting during this year’s ALA Annual Conference
in Anaheim, CA. The meeting – open to those interested in learning
more about Portico and to all participating libraries and publishers
- will take place on Saturday, June 28, 2008, in the Marriott
Anaheim Hotel. … Read More


Australian Academic Press reaches preservation agreement with Portico

Portico, 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 … Read More