Portico, a not-for-profit digital preservation service, introduced three expansions of its preservation work at its third annual Participants’ Meeting, held during the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. In direct response to preservation concerns expressed by libraries and publishers, Portico is moving beyond e-journal preservation. Portico now preserves scholarly e-books At ALA, Elsevier, … Read More
Portico, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to future generations, announced today the availability of a Holdings Comparison Service to complement its rapidly growing archive of born-digital scholarship. The new service is designed to assist librarians in making decisions … Read More
San Antonio, TX, January 22, 2006 – Portico, a not-for profit electronic archiving service, announced today its Annual Archive Support payment for participating libraries. Initiated by JSTOR in 2002, Portico builds upon and significantly advances JSTOR’s efforts to provide a trusted and reliable community-based archive for electronic scholarly journals. The library support payment announced today … Read More
The Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) announced today that it is making a $3 million grant award for the development of Portico, a nonprofit electronic archiving service being developed by Ithaka. Ithaka is a nonprofit organization with offices in New York City and Princeton, N.J., that provides a range … Read More