Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the MIT Press, US, to preserve the latter's entire online journals collection of 33 titles. With this inclusion, over 7,300 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.
Through this agreement with Portico, the MIT Press seeks to ensure that its online journal collection will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. MIT Press has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has designated the archive as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims.
The MIT Press is one of the largest American university presses in terms of number of books and journals published and overall sales. The MIT Press Journals Division publishes in many subject areas, including the arts and humanities, social sciences, and certain areas of science and technology.
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