Portico (www.portico.org/digital-preservation/) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH) to preserve its entire collection of two e-journals. Through this agreement with Portico, the ASALH furthers its preservation strategy, which includes participation in JSTOR since 1998 on behalf of the Journal of African American History, and ensures that these two e-journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students.
Established in 1915, the ASALH is a not-for-profit organization with a mission “to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.” In keeping with its mission to disseminate knowledge about the history of Africans and peoples of African descent, the ASALH publishes three periodicals for three essential audiences: scholars, teachers, and general readers.
As part of the agreement, the ASALH will make an annual financial contribution to Portico to support its preservation activities and has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims.
With the inclusion of the ASALH’s two e-journals, over 10,800 e-journals and 34,000 e-books from 94 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Further, nearly 15 million articles are currently preserved in Portico. For a complete list of Portico-related facts and figures, please visit Portico’s Archive Facts & Figures. The complete list of titles and participating publishers is available at www.portico.org/digital-preservation/.