Past News: 2009

08.04.09
Newly Signed Publishers

Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with Rockefeller University Press

Portico (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 … Read More


07.28.09
Events & Presentations

Presentations from Portico’s ALA Annual Participants’ Meeting Now Available

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 … Read More


07.21.09
Newly Signed Publishers

Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with Policy Press

Portico (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 … Read More


07.14.09
Newly Signed Publishers

Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with Brill

Portico (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 … Read More


07.07.09
Newly Signed Publishers

Springer to Preserve E-Books in Portico

Portico (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 … Read More


07.02.09
Trigger Events

“Orphaned” Journal Now Secure in Portico

Portico today announced that Pain Reviews—an electronic journal that ceased publication in 2002—has been secured, preserved, and made accessible through its digital preservation service.
Hodder Arnold published 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 … Read More


07.02.09
Trigger Events

Pain Reviews: Access Trigger at Portico

As a Portico participant, your institution now has access to 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. … Read More


06.23.09
Newly Signed Publishers

Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with Emerald

Portico (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 … Read More


06.17.09
Events & Presentations

Portico Announces Participants’ Meeting at ALA Annual Conference

Please plan to join us for the Portico Participants’ Meeting on July 11, 2009, 8-10 am at the Hyatt Regency Chicago at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL.
If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please send an email to events@ithaka.org.
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06.16.09
Newly Signed Publishers

Springer Expands Agreement with Portico

Portico (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) … Read More