Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with academic publisher Brill, Netherlands. Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter's entire online journals collection of 130 titles. With this inclusion, over 10,000 e-journals and 27,000 e-books from 74 publishers on behalf of 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.
Through this agreement with Portico, Brill furthers its digital preservation strategy. Since 2005, Brill has worked with JSTOR to provide a trusted archive for 23 of its journals' back issues. Also, the company has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico to help support its preservation work.
Founded in 1683, Brill is a leading international publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition to its journals programme, the publishing house publishes 500 new books and reference works each year.
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