Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has introduced three expansions of its preservation work at its third annual Participants' Meeting, held during the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. Portico is moving beyond e-journal preservation in response to preservation concerns expressed by libraries and publishers during the conference.
Portico recently announced an agreement with STM publisher Elsevier to preserve in the Portico archive e-book content available in ScienceDirect. It is in active discussions with several other e-book publishers and will announce additional agreements as these are finalised.
The service has also initiated preservation activities for digitised newspapers. Discussions with a number of leading publishers of current and historical digitised newspapers are underway. In addition, Portico has announced a new service to enable libraries to preserve locally created/digitised electronic scholarly materials within the Portico archive. Fifteen institutions have agreed to work with Portico in the introductory phase of this service. Portico expects to open this service to interested libraries in mid-2009.
Portico's new activities will proceed as preservation of the more than 7,700 journals committed to the Portico archive continues.
