Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it will preserve BioMed Central's entire collection of 60,000 open access online articles and all newly published articles going forward. With the inclusion of all articles from BioMed Central's 205 online journals, over 10,700 e-journals, including over 400 open access journals, and 34,000 e-books from 91 publishers have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.
Open access publisher BioMed Central, a unit of Springer Science + Business Media, will participate in Portico under the journal archive license agreement already in place between Springer and Portico. With this initiative, Springer furthers its digital preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico since 2007 on behalf of 824 journals and, since 2009, on behalf of 21,000 e-books.
Launched in 2000 as an independent publishing house, BioMed Central provides free access to peer-reviewed research in the biomedical sciences. Acquired by Springer in October 2008, BioMed Central claims to be the largest open access provider in the world with 205 peer-reviewed open access journals.
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