ITHAKA, a not-for-profit leader in developing new solutions to advance and preserve knowledge, has announced that its large-scale digital preservation service Portico now preserves one billion files or, in practical terms, more than 20,000 e-journals, 400,000 e-books, and 600 million images that include vast collections of historical newspapers.
Libraries worldwide are moving rapidly to holding digital collections, but will all those bits and bytes be here in the future? ITHAKA is making sure the answer to that question is yes. Portico has nearly doubled the amount of content it preserves in the past year, representing the ingestion of more than 24 million files per month into the archive, and pushing it over the one billion mark.
Portico has also expanded its services and the files it archives by working with libraries with special mandates and obligations to preserve content. Both the British Library and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek are partnering with Portico to meet commitments to preserve academic content. Additionally, Portico is working with fellow-ITHAKA service, the digital library JSTOR, to preserve the 70 million pages of journal content it has digitized and brought online.
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