Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, recently entered into an agreement with Walter de Gruyter, Germany, to preserve 61 titles from its online journal collection. With this inclusion, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.
For more than 250 years, Walter de Gruyter has published books and journals in the humanities and social sciences, including theology, philosophy, biology, chemistry, linguistics, literature, mathematics, physics, history, archaeology, law, and medicine. Through this agreement with Portico, Walter de Gruyter seeks to ensure that the online version of these journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. In addition, Walter de Gruyter has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico.
Earlier this month, Portico announced an agreement with Germany-based Hogrefe & Huber Publishers to preserve the latter's twelve English-language online journals that cover a range of areas in psychology and psychiatry. Hogrefe has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico.
