Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, and Portico, a not-for-profit digital preservation service, have announced an extension of their relationship to preserve the majority of Gale's remaining digital archives.
The organisations have previously worked together to preserve a number of Gale's earlier digital collections, and, with this extension to their agreement, Portico will effectively be preserving all remaining Gale-produced collections. When the project is completed, more than 1.5 million documents - amounting to more than 150 million pages, from 65 Gale Digital Collections and 150 Archives Unbound collections - will have been preserved in the Portico archive. These new collections represent a wide range of content types, including monographs, newspapers, journals, manuscripts, photographs and letters, dating from the 1400’s through the 21st Century.
In accordance with Portico's D-Collection Service model, Portico will make the content available to Gale's customers under specifically defined circumstances called 'trigger events.' Should the content no longer be made available through the Gale system or from other sources, or if Gale were to experience an extended service interruption, Portico will make the content preserved in the archive available to Gale's customers. There is no charge from Gale to its customers for this service.
