Past Events

Mexico City International Book Fair: Meeting on Scholarly and Research Journals

Kenneth DiFiore, Associate Director, Outreach & Participation Services, is attending and speaking on a panel titled “Access Preservation of E-Journals: The Publishers View.” We invite you to attend the panel and encourage you to contact us to set up a meeting to learn more about Portico.
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American Library Association (ALA) Annual

Portico and JSTOR will be exhibiting at the American Library Association Annual Conference, June 24-29, 2010, in Washington, DC. Read More

UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition

Our staff will be attending UKSG. It’s a great time to get a quick update on our work or to learn more about Portico participation. Please contact us to set up a meeting.
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ALA MidWinter 2009

Portico, along with JSTOR, will be exhibiting at the ALA Midwinter Conference in Boston, MA. Please stop by booth # 2649 in the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on January 15-18, 2010.
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ITHAKA Forum: Next Generation Digital Publishing, Preservation, and Scholarship

On October 27, 2009, along with Texas A&M and the University of Houston, ITHAKA hosted a forum titled Next Generation Digital Publishing, Preservation, and Scholarship in Houston, TX.
The forum focused on initiatives in which ITHAKA, through its services JSTOR and Portico, is currently engaged. It also highlighted examples of next generation publishing and preservation efforts … Read More

ITHAKA: Sustainable Scholarship 2009

On September 23rd, ITHAKA held a day-long meeting focused on the sustainability of scholarly communications. We were joined by leaders from libraries, presses, publishers, and learned societies, as well as editors, digital project leaders, and funders working in higher education.
Our aims in hosting Sustainable Scholarship 2009 were to facilitate a productive exchange of ideas among … Read More

Portico Participants’ Meeting at ALA

Portico Participants’ Meeting
ALA Annual Meeting
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Kevin Guthrie, President of ITHAKA, opened the meeting with a brief discussion of our organizational mission, current work, and future plans.
Our guest speaker, Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins … Read More

Portico Moves Beyond E-journals: New Digital Preservation Activities Announced at Third Annual Participants’ Meeting

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, … Read More

Sustainable Scholarship Forum

Your friends at ITHAKA (JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R) would like to invite you to a forum titled, Sustainable Scholarship, which will be held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place at 110 Huntington Avenue in Boston, MA, on March 30, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM (including lunch).
This forum will focus on new initiatives … Read More

Portico and JSTOR Forums

Portico and JSTOR would like to invite you to one of several special breakfast sessions in August. During these sessions we will host a discussion on the Current Scholarship Program and outline an expansion of the Portico preservation services. A full agenda is available below.

8:30 – 9:00 am … Read More