Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Medknow Publications, India. Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter's entire online journals collection of 77 titles. Medknow is a publisher of academic and scientific peer-reviewed open access journals.
Through this agreement, Medknow Publications seeks to ensure that its online journal collection will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. Medknow has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims.
With the inclusion of Medknow's publications, nearly 8,300 e-journals and 4,700 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.
