Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that a journal published by SAGE Publications will be removed from SAGE's online offering at the end of this year. The journal, Graft: Organ and Cell Transplantation, published from January 2001 to March 2003, will be the first trigger event for the Portico archive as well as Portico's participating publishers and libraries.
Sage has ensured that Graft is preserved in the Portico archive. As it will not be offered by any other commercial online source, Portico will 'light up' this portion of the archive and provide access to literature that otherwise would be lost to the scholarly community. Through this first trigger event Portico seeks to demonstrate how publishers, archives and libraries can cooperatively provide a permanent archive of scholarly literature published in electronic form and avoid a permanent gap in the scholarly record.
Portico is now making Graft available to its library participants via the Portico website. Access via Sage will end December 31, 2007. In the coming days, Portico will forward to its library participants instructions for accessing Graft.
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