Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Akadémiai Kiadó Publishers to preserve the latter’s entire collection of 52 e-journals. With this inclusion, over 10,600 e-journals and 34,000 e-books from 91 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Further, nearly 15 million articles are currently preserved in Portico.
Akadémiai Kiadó is a Hungarian-based publisher of scientific and academic books and journals. The company also publishes a wide variety of dictionaries in many languages. Its activity covers every major field of science and scholarship, and a major part of its output appears in foreign languages, mainly in English.
Through this agreement with Portico, Akadémiai Kiadó furthers its preservation strategy, which includes participation in JSTOR since 2003 on behalf of three journals, and ensures that its e-journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. As part of the deal, Akadémiai Kiadó will make an annual financial contribution to Portico to support its preservation activities and has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims.
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