From e-journals to datasets, many types of electronic resources are in need of trusted digital preservation solutions. Our expertise and services continue to grow as we strive to meet the preservation needs of the academic community. Our new preservation activities include:
Libraries and publishers have invested significantly in the creation of digitized historical collections (D-Collections). These collections include newspapers, images, and other primary sources vital to research. We announced our first agreement to preserve 10 digitized historical collections from Gale, part of Cengage Learning, in late 2009. Currently this content is being ingested into the archive.
Libraries and other cultural heritage organizations have growing collections of locally created digital scholarly content. There is a great need to preserve this important portion of the scholarly record.
Portico recently worked with a select group of libraries to evaluate the technology and costs associated with preservation of locally created content. An update on this work is available here.
The libraries participating in this effort included: