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Portico announces preservation agreement with the American Economic Association
Portico is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with
the American Economic Association (AEA) to preserve its current
online journals collection of three titles as well as four new
titles planned for 2009. The American Economic Association was
organized in 1885 for the encouragement of economic research,
especially the historical and statistical study of the actual
conditions of industrial life, the issue of publications on economic
subjects, and the encouragement of perfect freedom of economic
discussion. The current AEA membership is approximately 18,000.
Through this agreement with Portico, the AEA furthers its preservation
strategy. Since 1996 the AEA has worked with JSTOR to provide
a trusted archive of its journals' back issues and through
Portico, it provides for the ongoing preservation of its born-digital
current issues. Working in collaboration, JSTOR, Portico, and
the AEA also intend to include the born-digital versions of the
AEA titles in JSTOR in accordance with the moving wall.
With the inclusion of the AEA publications, over 7,300 titles
have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete
list of titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html and
a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.
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updated on October 6, 2008
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