Portico, a digital preservation service for electronic journals, books, and digitized historical collections, has announced that members of Netherland's SURFmarket and Switzerland's Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries have joined Portico. With the addition of these institutions, more than half of Portico's library participants are now located outside of the United States.
The 10 institutions include Leiden University, University of Amsterdam, University of Groningen, and Utrecht University in the Netherlands; and Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich), University of Basel, University of Fribourg, University of Lausanne, University of St. Gallen, and University of Zürich in Switzerland. They are the first institutions to participate in Portico in their respective countries.
These institutions join nearly 250 European participants from Austria, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
