Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has signed an agreement with non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, to enable the digital preservation of its extensive online journal collection.
The agreement ensures that the more than 300 periodicals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), Adis International and Facts & Comparisons will be preserved for future scholars, researchers and students. Publishers have entrusted thousands of titles to Portico for digital preservation. Access to all preserved content is granted to libraries supporting Portico if and when titles are no longer available from the publisher or any other source. This agreement assures that, regardless of the status of the publication, the archives will always be available to those libraries and their end users.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is an international publisher for healthcare professionals and students with nearly 300 periodicals and 1,500 books in more than 100 disciplines publishing under the LWW brand, as well as content-based sites and online corporate and customer services. Adis International publishes peer-reviewed journals for the pharmaceutical industry, and Facts & Comparisons publishes reference materials for pharmacists.
