Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Duke University Press to preserve electronic books from the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection. With the inclusion of Duke University Press' e-books, nearly 8,300 e-journals and 4,700 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.
The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection was launched in 2008 and provides online access to scholarly books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences. Through this agreement with Portico, the Press furthers its preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico on behalf of its entire e-journals collection as well as the inclusion of 12 of the Press' journals in JSTOR.
Duke University Press will be the second publisher, after Elsevier, to archive its entire collection of e-books with Portico. As part of the agreement, it will make an annual financial contribution to Portico to support its e-book preservation activities and has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims.
