Portico is part of a collaborative effort to explore best practices for preserving a complex new type of scholarship: the enhanced digital monograph. In a blog post for the Digital Preservation Coalition, Karen Hanson, Senior Research Developer for Portico, outlines the challenges of this project and opportunities to find new ways to collect, process, and provide access to more dynamic materials. Read on… Read more
Watch Stephanie Orphan, Portico’s Director of Publisher Relations, in a recorded webinar hosted by Ingenta Connect. Stephanie presents on the importance of digital preservation, the collaborative model that underpins Portico, and how we ensure that publishers’ content is both secure and permanently accessible. Read more
Join us in Amsterdam for iPRES 2019 this September 16-20! This year, Portico is proud to have co-sponsored registration for attendees from underrepresented countries. We will also take part in three presentations: Presentation: Managing Preservation Costs with Managed Ingest: The Portico Straight-to-Ingest Project Sheila Morrissey, Portico Senior Researcher and Amy Kirchhoff, Portico Product Manager September 18, 3:30 PM, Cinema I The activities associated with selection, acquisition, and other pre-ingest content processing are critical cost drivers… Read more
In April 2019, four more publishers began preserving content in the Portico archive, ensuring that an additional 10 Open Access e-journals will be secure and available into the future We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our newest participants: University of Oregon Galenos Publishing House The British Blockchain Association Derm101 Please visit our publishers page… Read more
On May 29, Stephanie Orphan, Portico’s Director of Publisher Relations, is co-facilitating Fact or Fiction? OASPA Lifts the Lid on Open Access Publishing, a seminar preceding the Society for Scholarly Publishing annual conference in San Diego. The interactive seminar aims to deepen understanding of approaches to Open Access publishing and will consider global trends and views, perceptions and the facts behind them, and different funding and… Read more
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $527,000 for a project to help ensure the preservation of complex new forms of digital scholarship. With New York University as lead, project partners NYU Press, Michigan Publishing, the University of Minnesota Press, Stanford University Press, and Vega Academic Publishing at Wayne State University will transfer content of varying complexity and formats to project partners CLOCKSS and Portico, two major preservation services. These organizations will analyze the content, assess the… Read more
In March 2019, four more publishers began preserving content in the Portico archive, ensuring that an additional 86 Open Access e-journals will be secure and available into the future We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our newest participants: Bond University Universitetsforlaget/Scandinavian University Press Academicus – International Scientific Journal Qeios Ltd. Please… Read more
Portico is pleased to sponsor registration for iPRES 2019 conference attendees from underrepresented countries. The awards, co-sponsored by the Dutch Digital Heritage Network, aim to expand the cultural diversity of the iPRES community. The funds cover the registration fee for the full conference package, hotel booking for five nights, and a contribution toward travel expenses. Applications are being accepted through June 30, 2019, and application review will continue until funding has been allocated. Read more
Portico has reached a new and exciting milestone: more than 600 publishers have now joined the archive ensuring their content will be secure and available into the future. So far this year, 12 publishers have started preserving 100+ Open Access e-journals, about 2,500 e-books, and 19 digital collections in the Portico archive. We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our newest participants: January 2019… Read more
The contents of three ahead-of-print articles from the Open Access e-journal Blood Science, a De Gruyter publication, will no longer be available through any online platform and have therefore “triggered.” All Portico participants now have access. Title: Blood Science Trigger Date: 03/28/19 ISSN: 2543-6368 e-ISSN: N/A Publisher: De Gruyter Publisher Holdings Information: N/A Publication Date Range: 2018-2019 Stable URL: http://access.portico.org/stable?cs=ISSN_25436368… Read more