Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced the launch of the new Portico website (www.portico.org) that seeks to help libraries make smart preservation choices. More than 650 libraries and 90 publishers (representing over 2,000 scholarly associations) around the world are reportedly working together to support the digital preservation of scholarly content through Portico.
The new website includes detailed sort-able lists of participating libraries, publishers and titles (e-journals, e-books, and d-collections), including bibliographic information, archive holdings, and information about the preservation status of titles and their availability for post-cancellation access. The site provides an overview of how digital content is preserved in Portico in a brief form that is easy to understand and supported by visual aids. A guide to help librarians learn about preservation options, compare Portico and other services, and see how Portico meets the kind of criteria that may be useful in making choices about where to invest library preservation dollars is also available. Additionally, the website also features thoughts and case studies from librarians about how Portico is playing a role in their organisations’ long-term digital preservation and collection management strategies.
Portico is a digital preservation service provided by ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. Created in 2002, the service was founded to build a sustainable digital archive to serve the academic community and to enable publishers and libraries to feel secure and to realise tangible benefits as they transitioned to greater reliance on digital content.
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