Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Walter de Gruyter to preserve its entire electronic book collection of about 1,200 titles.
Through this agreement with Portico, Walter de Gruyter furthers its preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico on behalf of 61 titles from its e-journals collection. Also, it seeks to ensure that the online version of its digital books will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. As part of the agreement, Walter de Gruyter will make an annual financial contribution to Portico to support its e-book preservation activities and has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims for the titles.
With the inclusion of Walter de Gruyter's e-books, approximately 8,840 e-journals and 6,480 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.
