Duke University Press to Preserve E-Books with Portico

Portico is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with Duke University Press to preserve electronic books from the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection. Through this agreement with Portico, Duke University Press furthers its preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico on behalf of its entire e-journals collection as well as the inclusion of 12 of the Press' journals in JSTOR.

The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection was launched in 2008 and provides online access to scholarly books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences. Through this agreement with Portico, Duke University Press will be the second publisher, after Elsevier, to archive its entire collection of e-books with Portico. As part of the agreement, Duke will make an annual financial contribution to Portico to support its e-book preservation activities and has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims.

With the inclusion of Duke University Press' e-books, approximately 8,300 e-journals and 4,700 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles as well as a list of participating publishers is available at www.portico.org.

Last updated on February 18, 2009

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