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) sector, the largest publisher of STM books, and the largest business-to-business publisher in the German language. Springer began participation in Portico in 2007.
Through this expanded agreement, Springer provides Portico’s nearly 500 participating libraries around the world with an additional reliable, ‘back up’ option to ensure continuing access to subscribed content for their faculty, researchers, and students.
Publishers have a variety of arrangements for providing continuing access to libraries in the event of a cancellation. Portico is able to serve as one such mechanism if and when needed for over 85% of the more than 15,300 e-journals and e-books committed to the Portico archive.
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