Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter’s e-journal Multimedia Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
The Multimedia Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery is an online manual of cardiovascular and thoracic surgical procedures. Authored by experts in the field, it includes how-to descriptions along with informative videos and drawings. Through this agreement with Portico, EACTS ensures that this title will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students.
As part of the agreement, EACTS will make an annual contribution to Portico and has also named Portico as a mechanism to provide post-cancellation access to the title committed to the archive.
Portico preserves a range of content formats, including multimedia. There are at present more than 600 audio files, 22,000 video files, and 250,000 application-specific files in the archive. With the inclusion of this e-journal, over 12,000 e-journals, almost 66,000 e-books, and 39 d-collections from 121 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Further, over 15 million articles are currently preserved in Portico.
