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January 23, 2018

Japanese Urological Society to Preserve E-Journals with Portico

The Japanese Urological Association (JUA) will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring their content will be secure and available into the future. Introduced in Japan around 1900, the JUA was founded alongside the Japanese Dermatological Association and would later become its own entity in October of 1912. The JUA publishes several journals, including The Japanese Journal of Urology, which is considered the top urology journal in all of Asia. For more information, please visit the publisher’s page on the Portico… Read more

New agreements
January 4, 2018

Hylonome Publications to Preserve OA E-journals with Portico

Hylonome Publications will preserve open access e-journals with Portico, ensuring that it will be secure and available into the future. Based in Ireland, Hylonome is a host for open access journals, specializing in scientific publications with the intent to bridge academics and access to raw scientific research. For more information, please visit the publisher’s page on the Portico website. Read more

New agreements
Open access
December 8, 2017

Trans Tech Publications Ltd. to preserve e-journals with Portico

Trans Tech Publications Ltd. is will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that it will be secure and available into the future. Trans Tech Publications Ltd., founded in 1967, publishes monographs, series, and journals in the fields of materials science and engineering. For more information, please visit the publisher’s page on our site. Read more

New agreements
October 6, 2017

AAAS to preserve e-journals with Portico

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has entered into an agreement with Portico to preserve the following e-journals, ensuring this content will be secure and available in the future: Science Science Advances (Open Access) Science Immunology Science Robotics Science Signaling Science Translational Medicine Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society. It was founded in 1848 and includes nearly 250 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. The non-profit AAAS is… Read more

New agreements
September 8, 2017

CAS to preserve ChemZent product with Portico

CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) is preserving its ChemZentTM solution through Portico’s d-collection service, ensuring that it will be secure and available to ChemZent customers in the future. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is dedicated to the ACS vision of improving people’s lives through the transforming power of chemistry. The CAS team of highly trained scientists identifies, aggregates, and organizes all publicly disclosed chemistry information, creating the world’s most valuable collection of content that is vital to innovation… Read more

New agreements
August 24, 2017

IM Publications to preserve e-journals with Portico

IM Publications will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future. IM Publications have been established for over 25 years and now specialize in Open Access and free-to-read periodicals. Their publications include JSI—Journal of Spectral Imaging, a backlist of books and the controlled circulation magazines Spectroscopy Europe and Spectroscopy Asia, which are published jointly with John Wiley & Sons Ltd. “We investigated several organisations offering preservation services for our Open Access journals, and… Read more

New agreements
August 9, 2017

Portico’s Stephanie Orphan elected to OASPA board

The members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) have elected Stephanie Orphan, Portico’s director of publisher relations, to serve on the board of directors for a term of three years. OASPA’s mission is to support and represent the interests of Open Access journal and book publishers globally in scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines by setting standards, supporting the development of business and publishing models, educating the research community and the public on the benefits of OA… Read more

Community
August 2, 2017

Portico Access Alert: Stewart Postharvest Review

Portico has made the content from Stewart Postharvest Review available through the Portico archive. The content for the volumes and issues listed below is no longer available through any online platform; therefore, it has “triggered” and is available to Portico participants via the Portico archive. This title was published Open Access by Stewart Postharvest Review and will remain Open Access through Portico. These are the key facts about the trigger events: Title: Stewart Postharvest Review Trigger Date: 07/27/17 ISSN: N/A… Read more

Access alerts
May 30, 2017

Portico Welcomes 1,000th Library Supporting Digital Preservation

Portico is pleased to announce the University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, as its 1,000th participating library. Since its inception in 2006, libraries have relied on Portico to preserve academic e-journals, e-books, and other digital scholarship, and ensure that it remains available for future generations. The University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg joined alongside 53 other German institutions following an exhaustive evaluation funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), which recommended participation in Portico as part of their national strategy for digital preservation of licensed content. Read more

Milestones
May 18, 2017

Portico Archive Hits Terabyte Milestone

Earlier this year, Portico hit a big milestone: we now preserve 400 Terabytes (TB) of data. For some (say NASA) this number may not sound that big, but consider what it represents: 68 million articles, 794 million images, 3.7 million digitized historical collection items, 679,000 e-books, and much more. Read more

Milestones