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Service for Publishers

Portico offers a service which provides a permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals.

For participating publishers:

Portico receives and normalizes the original source files of electronic journals to an archival format and assumes responsibility for future content migrations.
The intellectual content of the journal is preserved.
The Portico archive is open to a publisher's complete list of scholarly journals.
Full access to the publisher's own content via a Portico web portal is provided.

A list of our participating publishers is available. A list of committed journal titles is also available.

Participation Benefits

A relationship with Portico:

Relieves publishers of the obligation to convert source files to archival formats and conduct future content or format migrations as technology changes.
Creates an opportunity to reduce or potentially eliminate current internal archiving activities and related costs.
Provides a means to meet library demands for a trusted, reliable third-party archive.
Provides a means to meet library demands for perpetual access, where appropriate, without incurring an ongoing operational obligation that lacks an associated revenue source.

For further information, please contact us or download the Portico brochure.

Last updated on February 6, 2009