Portico (www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that it will preserve BioMed Central’s entire collection of 60,000 open access online articles and all newly published articles going forward. BioMed Central, a unit of Springer Science + Business Media, will participate in Portico under the journal archive license agreement already in place between Springer and Portico. Springer now furthers its digital preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico since 2007 on behalf of 824 journals and, since 2009, on behalf of 21,000 e-books.
Bev Acreman, Commercial Director for BioMed Central, notes: “BioMed Central is committed to preservation and availability of scholarly content through its leading open access publishing program and is pleased to partner with Portico to add another archive for its content.”
BioMed Central was launched in 2000 as an independent publishing house committed to providing free access to peer-reviewed research in the biomedical sciences. Acquired by Springer Business + Media in October of 2008, BioMed Central is now the largest open access provider in the world with 205 peer-reviewed open access journals.
With the inclusion of all articles from BioMed Central’s 205 online journals, over 10,700 e-journals, including over 400 open access journals, and 34,000 e-books from 91 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles and participating publishers is available at www.portico.org.