Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, and the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL) has announced that all 19 SHEDL institutions have initiated participation in the Portico digital preservation service. By joining Portico, Scottish libraries and their faculty and students now are assured future access to nearly 12,000 e-journals and 66,000 e-books, if and when needed.
SHEDL was founded in 2008 to support learning and teaching and to stimulate better research in Scotland. Through its own work and its relationship with the UK-wide JISC Collections, member libraries have access to a large and growing collection of digital content, including significant e-journal and e-book holdings. Portico preserves important parts of this collection, including content from all the major academic publishers as well as university presses and learned societies representing over 60 percent of the NESLi2 and NESLi2 SMP publishers.
Portico participation will enable SHEDL institutions to rely on the digital collection in lieu of maintaining local print holdings or investing redundantly in digital preservation efforts.
In addition to the SHEDL group, Portico is supported by nearly 700 libraries and 117 publishers representing 2,000 scholarly societies around the world. In 2010, Portico became the first preservation service to be certified as a trusted digital repository by the Center for Research Libraries, an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries.
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