Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with publisher M.E. Sharpe to preserve its entire online journals collection of 38 titles. With this inclusion, over 14,000 e-books and e-journals have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.
Through this agreement with Portico, M.E. Sharpe seeks to further its preservation strategy. Since 2005, the publisher has worked with JSTOR to provide a trusted archive for 4 of its journals' back issues. Through Portico, it will provide for the ongoing preservation of the full suite of its titles, including both electronic journal issues and digitised print. The publisher has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims.
Founded in 1958, M.E. Sharpe is a privately held publisher of books and journals in the social sciences and in economics, political science, management and public administration, history, and literature. They also publish both original works and translations in Asian and East European studies.
