RCN Publishing, part of the Royal College of Nursing group, has signed an agreement with Portico to preserve its e-journal content. Through the agreement, institutions participating in Portico's E-Journal Preservation Service will be assured continued access to RCN Publishing title content for their nurses, students and academics for generations to come.
RCN Publishing is the latest publisher to join the continually growing group of participants that strive to ensure ongoing access to essential research for future generations of students, researchers and scholars. RCN Publishing publishes 10 core journals including Cancer Nursing Practice, Emergency Nurse, Learning Disability Practice, Mental Health Practice, Nursing Management, Nurse Researcher and Nursing Standard. In total, the journals comprise more than 18,000 articles, dating from 1996 onwards.
Portico is a digital preservation service for electronic journals, books, and digitized historical collections. The Portico archive claims to be one of the largest community-supported digital archives in the world and is certified as a "trustworthy digital repository" by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).
Portico is supported by more than 900 libraries and over 220 publishers - representing more than 2000 scholarly societies and associations - worldwide. Portico is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.
