Portico and Philosophy Documentation Center announce preservation deal - July 27, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced a preservation agreement with the Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC), a non-profit aggregator and distributor of scholarly resources in applied ethics, philosophy, classics, and related disciplines. PDC's initial commitment will be to deposit 50 e-journals to the archive.… Read More
Beech Tree Publishing to preserve e-journals in Portico - July 21, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced a preservation agreement with Beech Tree Publishing. Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter's collection of three e-journals. Beech Tree is an independent UK-based company that publishes the peer-reviewed academic journals Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal,… Read More
Maney Publishing and Portico announce preservation deal - July 13, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced a preservation agreement with academic publisher Maney Publishing. Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter's entire collection of 111 e-journals. Through this agreement with Portico, Maney seeks to ensure that its collection of e-journals will be… Read More
ECS EPrints among top ten in world ranking of institutional repositories - July 12, 2010
The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) EPrints repository of research publications is now one of the top ten in the world, according to the official world ranking of institutional repositories. Southampton ECS EPrints is ranked number 10 in the world, just… Read More
Maney Publishing partners with digital preservation services to secure e-journal content - July 6, 2010
Academic Publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has joined the CLOCKSS, LOCKSS and Portico digital preservation services to guarantee the long-term security of its e-journal content. Maney currently has more than 100 e-journals in materials science and engineering, health sciences and humanities. The partnerships seek to enhance the… Read More
Portico and Wiley announce archive license agreement - June 28, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that publisher John Wiley & Sons has entered into an archive license agreement to preserve its collection of more than 8,000 online scholarly monographs. This agreement expands the global publisher's relationship with Portico, which began in 2006 with Wiley's… Read More
Future Science Group journals selected for coverage on Embase - June 24, 2010
Publisher Future Science Group, UK, has announced that its journals Epigenomics, Imaging in Medicine and Interventional Cardiology have been selected for coverage on Embase. Embase is a comprehensive database which holds over 20 million indexed records from more than 7,000 active, peer-reviewed journals. The database delivers… Read More
Researchers to gain free access to journals published in Africa - June 21, 2010
A full-text, digital archive of journal articles published in Africa is now available at www.ajarchive.org. The African Journal Archive is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by South Africa-based Sabinet. It will make African research and cultural heritage published in Africa available free… Read More
Portico and John Benjamins Publishing Company in deal to preserve e-journals - June 21, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with academic publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company to preserve the latter's entire collection of 47 e-journals. With the inclusion of these 47 e-journals, over 11,000 e-journals, 33,000 e-books and 10 d-collections from 110 publishers on… Read More
Portico Archive reaches new milestone in digital preservation - June 16, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that 110 publishers, representing over 2,000 professional and scholarly societies, are now participating in the Portico archive. Furthermore, nearly 15 million articles are now safely preserved in the Portico archive. The 110 publishers who have entrusted their… Read More
