Past News: 2009

12.15.09
Newly Signed Publishers

Palgrave Macmillan to Preserve E-Books in Portico

Portico (www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Palgrave Macmillan to preserve about 5,400 e-books hosted on the Palgrave Connect platform. Through this agreement with Portico, Palgrave Macmillan furthers its preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico since 2007 on behalf of 44 titles from its e-journals … Read More


12.08.09
Newly Signed Publishers

Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with the Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Portico (www.portico.org), a digital preservation service for the scholarly community, is pleased to announce that it entered into an agreement with the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) to preserve three online journals and three conference abstracts series published by SEG and the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS), an SEG publishing partner.
Founded in 1930, SEG … Read More


12.02.09
General News

Gale and Portico Enter into an Agreement To Preserve Gale Digital Collections

We are very pleased to announce that Portico will be preserving ten major digitized historical collections from Gale including 19th Century United States Newspapers, The Making of Modern Law, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online. The full press release is below.
With this new addition, Portico helps libraries protect and ensure reliable, future access to an even … Read More


11.17.09
Newly Signed Publishers

Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with the College Art Association

Portico (www.portico.org), a digital preservation service for the scholarly community, is pleased to announce that it entered into an agreement with the College Art Association (CAA) to preserve the CAA’s online journal, caa.reviews. Founded in 1911, the CAA serves art professionals as well as anyone who is interested or invested in visual art and … Read More


11.12.09
Newly Signed Publishers

Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery

Portico (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, … Read More


09.22.09
Newly Signed Libraries

Brazilian Academic Consortia – CAPES – Joins Portico to Support Digital Preservation

Portico (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 … Read More


09.01.09
Newly Signed Publishers

Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with the Society for Endocrinology and BioScientifica

Portico (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 … Read More


08.25.09
Newly Signed Publishers

Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with Historians for Netherlandish Art

Portico (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 … Read More


08.18.09
Newly Signed Libraries

Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with University of Technology Sydney Library

Portico (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 … Read More


08.11.09
Research & Surveys

Portico Seeks Community Input on Preservation of DOAJ Journals

As the number of Open Access journals continues to increase, many librarians have asked Portico to expand its preservation work with Open Access publishers. Portico already preserves nearly 350 Open Access titles from its current publisher participants but we need your help to identify additional titles of greatest concern.
We invite librarians to visit our website … Read More