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Portico Archive Exceeds 3.6 Million Articles Archived

Portico, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to future generations, is pleased to announce that its archive of scholarly e-journals now contains more than 3.6 million articles. Portico was launched in 2005 with support from JSTOR, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ithaka, and the Library of Congress in response to the now urgent need to develop robust means to preserve scholarly e-journals, and to ensure their future access.

"Portico takes an aggressive approach to meeting the goals of the Open Archive Information System (OAIS) reference model for long-term preservation and has developed an extensive automated system for ensuring journal articles will be usable in the future," said Evan Owens, Portico's Chief Technology Officer. "We recently completed a significant expansion of our preservation infrastructure to improve our ability to ingest, generate preservation metadata, and archive journal articles. To exceed 3.6 million articles ingested within our first two years of operation is a very significant milestone for us."

With Portico's collaborative approach to building and sustaining its archive, libraries and publishers can together contribute toward a shared infrastructure which supports the long-term preservation of electronic scholarly literature. Currently, over 7,200 journal titles from 46 publishers have been entrusted to Portico. The list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.

Libraries have also been supportive of Portico. As of this writing, nearly 400 from the global community have become participants http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html, and this group of early supporters is formally recognized as Archive Founders. In acknowledgment of their commitment to preservation, Portico provides Archive Founders with a saving in each year for the first five years of their participation. Eligibility for the Archive Founder program closes on December 31, 2007. Libraries interesting in learning more about Portico should contact participation@portico.org.

Last updated on December 18, 2007