STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced an agreement with digital preservation service Portico to aid ScienceDirect, Elsevier's online STM platform, in addressing the challenges of eBook preservation. This agreement will ensure that eBooks on ScienceDirect content is protected for the future.
Portico specialises in digital preservation of electronic scholarly resources that allows archived files to remain usable and complete as technology and file formats evolve. The agreement will allow ScienceDirect to implement a safeguard plan that ensures technological preservation for its entire collection of eBooks on ScienceDirect, and is designed to meet the research demands of ScienceDirect's customers.
ScienceDirect users will now have further assurance of permanent access to all archived materials taken from Elsevier's rich scientific research platform. Portico is the only archive that holds both the eBooks on ScienceDirect and the entire journal Backfiles collection.
