New Portico Website Helps Libraries Make Smart Preservation Choices

Reliable long-term digital preservation of scholarly content is increasingly important to all libraries, but understanding the options and making smart investments can be challenging. We designed the new Portico website to help by providing the critical information librarians and their colleagues need.

Highlights include:

• Who Participates? – Detailed sortable lists of participating libraries, publishers, and titles (e-journals, e-books, and d-collections), including bibliographic information, archive holdings, and information about the preservation status of titles and their availability for post-cancellation access.
• Preservation Step-by-Step – An overview of how digital content is preserved in Portico in a brief form that is easy to understand and supported by visual aids.
• Evaluating Your Preservation Options – A guide to help librarians learn about preservation options, compare Portico and other services, and see how Portico meets the kind of criteria that may be useful in making choices about where to invest library preservation dollars.
• What Participants Say – Thoughts and case studies from librarians about how Portico is playing a role in their organizations’ long-term digital preservation and collection management strategies.

We also provide a service to compare library holdings to Portico, information about our recent third-party certification as a trusted digital repository, and more.

We hope that you will take the time to see why hundreds of libraries around the world are working with Portico to preserve electronic scholarly content by visiting www.portico.org.