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 wider range of digital content in their collections. In addition to Gale, Portico has agreements with more than 80 publishers representing 2,000+ scholarly associations to preserve more than 10,000 e-journals and 28,000 e-books.
Gale and Portico Enter into an Agreement To Preserve Gale Digital Collections
Farmington Hills, Mich., Dec. 1, 2009 – Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and Portico, part of the not-for-profit organization ITHAKA, announced today an agreement in which Portico will digitally preserve archival versions of a number of the Gale Digital Collections.
“We chose to work with Portico because they are a trusted, reliable archive,” said Frank Menchaca, Gale’s executive vice president for publishing. “In the unlikely situation that Gale and the scholarly community will need their services, the agreement with Portico puts into place the preservation of a number of the Gale Digital Collections, creating a secure, permanent back-up.”
Portico preserves scholarly literature published in electronic form and ensures that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers and students. To date, more than 10,000 eJournal titles and 28,000 eBooks have been committed to the Portico archive. This agreement with Gale brings the first set of digitized historical collections including newspapers, legislative documents, pamphlets and more into the service.
“Ensuring long-term preservation and permanent access to the wide range of digital information used by scholars and students around the world is vital,” said Eileen Fenton, Portico’s managing director. “This includes not only eJournals and eBooks, but the vast digitized historical collections that Gale and others have worked with the world’s libraries to create and make available. We are delighted that Gale has taken a lead role in addressing this need and that they have chosen to work with Portico.”
The list of Gale Digital Collections preserved in the Portico archive will include:
Portico will make the content available to Portico-supporting libraries and their users under specific defined circumstances called ‘trigger events,’ including for extended service interruptions or if the content is no longer available through the Gale system or from other sources. There is no charge from Gale for this service, but an institution must be a participant in Portico. Current fees for participation in Portico are outlined at
/digital-preservation/join-portico/for-libraries/. Gale Digital Collection customers will still have the option of getting the archive in electronic format directly from Gale at no cost.
For more information, please contact Linda Busse at linda.busse@cengage.com or Heidi McGregor at heidi.mcgregor@ithaka.org.
About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world’s information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats. For more information, visit www.cengage.org or www.gale.com.
About Portico
Portico, a not-for-profit archive, preserves scholarly literature published in electronic form and ensures that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students. Nearly 40,000 e-journal titles and e-books have been promised to the Portico archive which is supported by more than 600 libraries worldwide and 84 publishers representing over 2000 scholarly societies and associations. Portico is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance scholarship and teaching in sustainable ways. For more information, visit www.portico.org and www.ithaka.org.