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New Digital Preservation Activities from Portico

Over the past several years as Portico has been building its substantial preservation infrastructure, both publishers and libraries have articulated additional digital preservation needs beyond journals. As these conversations have unfolded two needs have clearly emerged as the most immediate and significant: 1) preservation of e-books and digitized newspapers ("d-newspapers") offered by publishers and secondary publishers and 2) preservation of content created or digitized by libraries and their parent institutions. In mid-2008, Portico initiated new preservation activities in direct response to these emerging needs.

E-Books and D-Newspapers
Portico will preserve e-books and d-newspapers (digitized newspapers). To participate, publishers will sign a license agreement with Portico, pay a one-time set-up fee and an ongoing annual contribution, and deposit source files with Portico for long-term preservation. Libraries will support e-book and d-newspaper preservation through their existing Portico agreements. Access to archived e-books and d-newspapers will become available to all participant libraries through the website upon the occurrence of trigger events as with e-journal preservation.
Elsevier is the first publisher participant to sign an e-book license agreement, and they have named Portico as a post-cancellation access mechanism. Elsevier will preserve both their back list and their forthcoming ScienceDirect e-books with Portico. ( see http://elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.careers/companynews05_00960)
Local Library Content
Libraries and the institutions of which they are a part have growing collections of locally created and digitized scholarly content, and there is a great need to preserve this important portion of the scholarly record. Portico is working with a select group of libraries during the introductory phase of this service, as we evaluate with our partners the technology and costs associated with preservation of local library content. Portico anticipates opening this service broadly to any interested libraries in mid-2009.
The libraries participating in the introductory phase of this service include:

For further information on either of these new preservation services, please contact us at participation@portico.org.

Last updated on July 21, 2008