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New Digital Preservation Activities from Portico
Over the past several years as Portico has been building its substantial
preservation infrastructure, both publishers and libraries have articulated
additional digital preservation needs beyond journals. As these conversations
have unfolded two needs have clearly emerged as the most immediate and significant: 1)
preservation of e-books and digitized newspapers ("d-newspapers")
offered by publishers and secondary publishers and 2) preservation of content
created or digitized by libraries and their parent institutions. In
mid-2008, Portico initiated new preservation activities in direct response
to these emerging needs.
- E-Books and D-Newspapers
Portico will preserve e-books and d-newspapers (digitized newspapers).
To participate, publishers will sign a license agreement with Portico,
pay a one-time set-up fee and an ongoing annual contribution, and deposit
source files with Portico for long-term preservation. Libraries will support
e-book and d-newspaper preservation through their existing Portico agreements.
Access to archived e-books and d-newspapers will become available to all
participant libraries through the website upon the occurrence of trigger
events as with e-journal preservation.
Elsevier was the first publisher participant to sign an e-book license agreement,
and they named Portico as a post-cancellation access mechanism. Elsevier
will preserve both their back list and their forthcoming ScienceDirect e-books
with Portico. (see http://elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.careers/companynews05_00960)
Duke University Press, Walter de Gruyter, and Springer have also committed their e-books to Portico, naming Portico as a mechanism for post-cancellation access.
- Local Library Content
Libraries and the institutions of which they are a part have growing
collections of locally created and digitized scholarly content, and
there is a great need to preserve this important portion of the scholarly
record. Working with a select group of libraries, Portico is evaluating the technology and costs associated with preservation of local library content and exploring the possibility of launching a new service.
The libraries participating include:
For further information on either of these new preservation services,
please contact us.
Last
updated on August 14, 2009
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