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The Portico service offers a permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals, thereby providing protection against the potential loss of access to e-literature integral to a library's collection.
Portico provides all libraries supporting the archive with campus-wide access to archived content when specific trigger events occur, and when titles are no longer available from the publisher or other source. Trigger events include:
- A publisher stops operations; or
- A publisher ceases to publish a title; or
- A publisher no longer offers back issues; or
- Upon catastrophic and sustained failure of a publisher's delivery platform.
Portico also provides a reliable means to secure perpetual access, if participating publishers choose to designate Portico as a provider of post-cancellation access. In addition, select librarians at participating libraries are granted password-controlled access for verification purposes.
Participation Benefits
A relationship with Portico offers libraries:
- A practical means to act upon their traditional preservation mandate in support of the parent institution's educational mission.
- An opportunity to accelerate the transition to preferred electronic resources without sacrificing future accessibility.
- Reduced system-wide preservation costs that, through collaborative effort, eliminates the need for each library to locally receive and archive electronic journal literature.
- An opportunity to rely more heavily upon electronic resources and realize savings through reduced costs associated with print subscriptions, handling, and storage.
- A means to secure perpetual access if a participating publisher chooses to designate Portico as a provider of post-cancellation access.
Participation Requirements
To participate in Portico, a library:
Annual Archive Support Payment
Participating libraries are asked to make an annual support payment which is tiered according to a library's total materials expenditure (LME).
| Total LME |
Annual Archive Support |
| $25-30 million |
$24,000 |
|
$20-25 million |
$19,000 |
|
$15-20 million |
$17,500 |
|
$13-15 million |
$16,100 |
|
$11-13 million |
$15,200 |
|
$9-11 million |
$14,300 |
|
$7-9 million |
$13,000 |
|
$5-7 million |
$11,500 |
| $4-5 million |
$10,000 |
| $3-4 million |
$ 8,900 |
| $2-3 million |
$ 7,800 |
| $1-2 million |
$ 6,700 |
| $750,000-1 million |
$ 5,400 |
| $500-750,000 |
$ 4,200 |
| $250-500,000 |
$ 3,100 |
| $150-250,000 |
$ 1,500 |
| <$150,000 |
1% of LME |
Portico Archive Founders
All libraries that initiate support for Portico in 2006 and 2007 will be designated "Portico Archive Founders."
- To encourage early adoption, libraries starting their support of Portico in 2006 will receive a 25% savings each year for five
(5) years on their Annual Archive Support payment.
- Libraries that initiate Portico support in 2007 will receive a 10% savings each year for five (5) years on their Annual Archive Support payment.
- Libraries beginning to participate in Portico after 2007 will be asked to pay the standard Annual Archive Support payment.
Systems and Consortia
Portico offers modest savings to library systems and consortia that facilitate support for the archive among their member institutions. These savings will be reflected in the Annual Archive Support payment.
For further information, please contact us at
participation@portico.org.
Last updated March 21, 2006.
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