Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Berghahn Journals to preserve the latter's collection of 29 e-journals. Through this agreement with Portico, Berghahn seeks to ensure that its e-journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students.
Berghahn Journals is the journals division of Berghahn Books, an independent scholarly publisher in the humanities and social sciences. As part of the agreement, Berghahn will make an annual contribution to Portico and has also named Portico as a mechanism to provide post-cancellation access to the titles committed to the archive.
With the inclusion of these e-journals, over 11,900 e-journals, 65,900 e-books and 13 d-collections from 117 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Further, nearly 15 million articles are currently preserved in Portico.
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