Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP). Under the deal Portico will preserve the publisher's entire collection of e-books from its Oxford Scholarship Online resource and Handbooks Online resource.
Oxford Scholarship Online is OUP's cross-searchable digital library of over 4,400 full-text books in academic disciplines such as history, classical studies, religion, political science, business, literature, and mathematics. Oxford Handbooks Online is an online resource of the prestigious Oxford handbooks series, available as a collection of four subject modules.
With this new agreement, OUP seeks to expand its relationship with Portico, which began in 2006 with the publisher's commitment to deposit its entire list of e-journals in the Portico archive. As part of the agreement, OUP will make an annual contribution to Portico to support its e-book preservation service.
Since 2005, the number of titles and types of content preserved in Portico has grown significantly. To date, over 12,000 e-journals, 70,000 e-books, and 39 digitised historical collections have been entrusted to the Portico archive.
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