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November 29, 2018

Happy World Digital Preservation Day, 2018!

World Digital Preservation Day brings together individuals and institutions from across the globe in celebration of their work in the field of digital preservation. Sheila Morrissey, senior researcher at Portico, has written a blog post published by the Digital Preservation Coalition for World Digital Preservation Day on the importance of continual investment in technical infrastructure, and how Portico has been addressing that through our NextGen project. For more information, read the full article. Our colleague Oya Reiger, senior advisor of… Read more

General
November 28, 2018

Annex Publishers is preserving OA e-journals with Portico

Annex Publishers is preserving open access e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. Established to spread information among the scientific community, Annex Publishing has become a world leader in the provision of open access e-journals. Working with scientists and researchers in the fields of engineering, medicine, and biological communities, titles like Journal of Cancer Science and Clinical Oncology have helped progress thinking and research in their fields. For more information, please visit… Read more

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November 16, 2018

Scholastica users can now deposit articles automatically into Portico

Publishers using Scholastica Open Access Publishing can now have their journal articles automatically deposited into the Portico digital preservation service. And because Scholastica tests their imports and formats the content, publishers can sign an agreement with Portico without having to go through a content sample review process. In its blog, Scholastica outlines the  importance of digital preservation and speaks with our Director of Publisher Relations Stephanie Orphan about Portico’s approach to preservation and our collaborations with the academic… Read more

General
November 15, 2018

Journal of University of Babylon is preserving OA e-journals with Portico

Journal of University of Babylon is preserving their open access e-journals, Journal of University of Babylon for Pure and Applied Sciences, Journal of University of Babylon for Engineering Sciences, and Journal of University of Babylon for Humanities with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. The University of Babylon Publishing House (UBPH) is an academic publisher for Journals of University of Babylon at the University of Babylon. It is established to publish journals of… Read more

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Open access
November 12, 2018

A renewed investment in preservation infrastructure

In the decade since Portico launched, both the scale and type of preservation work we do has evolved. The volume of scholarly content ingested each year has grown from 160,000 archival objects in 2006 to over 98.5 million in 2018. At Portico, we are committed to investing in and improving our systems and capabilities in order to keep up with the constantly changing environment. Thanks to the support of our publisher and library participants, we recently completed a two-year project… Read more

General
November 12, 2018

Dietitians of Canada preserving e-journals with Portico

Dietitians of Canada is preserving their e-journal, Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research, with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. Dietitians of Canada is the professional association representing over 5,000 members at the local, provincial and national levels with regional offices in British Columbia, Alberta and the Territories, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada. For more information, please visit the publisher’s page on the Portico website. Read more

New agreements
November 12, 2018

Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers is preserving OA e-journals with Portico

Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers is preserving open access e-journals (and non-open access e-journals) with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. Based in New Delhi, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers is the largest and fastest-growing medical publisher in South Asia. The company has journals available in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. It is committed to publishing information with clarity of text, design, and purpose relevant to medical professionals in the field. For more… Read more

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Open access
September 28, 2018

Portico at the 2018 Charleston Library Conference

Portico will be at this year’s Charleston Library Conference. Come visit us at booth #100! We’re also participating in a panel discussion on text and data mining: Panel: “Standing together before we fall apart: solving the content as data problem” Date: Thursday, November 8, 2018 Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. EST Location: Carolina Ballroom A, Francis Marion Hotel, 387 King St, Charleston, SC 29403, USA Speakers: Kate Wittenberg, Managing Director, Portico Ivy Anderson, Associate Executive… Read more

Events
September 5, 2018

Access alert: De Gruyter

Portico has made the content from 70 open access e-journals formerly hosted through De Gruyter available through the Portico archive. The content includes titles published by De Gruyter Poland as well as six publishers in Poland, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic. Download the full title list, which includes the metadata and URL for each journal. The content for these titles is no longer available through any online platform; therefore, it has “triggered”… Read more

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August 30, 2018

Centre of Excellence for Scientific Research and Journalism is preserving OA e-journals with Portico

Centre of Excellence for Scientific Research and Journalism is preserving Open Access e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. The Centre of Excellence for Scientific and Research Journalism publishes peer-reviewed Open Access journals for all major disciplines. Titles include the Journal of Law, Journal of Social Sciences, Journal of Literature, Language & Culture, and Journal of Business & Management. For more information, please visit the publisher’s page on the Portico website. Read more

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