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February 8, 2018

Portico @ Code4Lib

Visit us at this year’s Code4Lib conference in Washington, D.C.! Portico will be presenting a poster called “Head in the cloud, or feet on the ground? Making preservation hardware platform choices.” You will learn about: A two-year project to develop the next-generation architecture for the Portico archive of e-journals, e-books, and other electronic scholarly content was the occasion for Portico staff to step back and consider, not just what that architecture should be, but also where it should be. Read more

Events
February 2, 2018

Portico Access Alert: SAGE and the APA

Portico has made the content from 21 open access e-journals from SAGE Publications and to PsycCRITIQUES, a database from the American Psychological Association (APA), available through the Portico archive. The content for the volumes and issues listed below is no longer available through any online platform; therefore, it has “triggered” and is available to Portico participants via the Portico archive. These are the key facts about the trigger events: PsycCRITIQUES database from the APA Portico has triggered the PsycCRITIQUES database published… Read more

Access alerts
Open access
January 31, 2018

Portico’s 2017 year in review

In 2017, we continued to make strides in expanding the Portico archive, while also growing our library participation and engaging with the community on critical issues in preservation. Here are just a few highlights from the year: Download the 2017 year in review PDF   Portico welcomes 1,000th library In May, we finalized the agreement with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DfG) and welcomed 55 German institutions to Portico. This followed an extensive evaluation… Read more

Milestones
New agreements
January 23, 2018

Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology to Preserve E-Journals with Portico

The Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. Founded in 1960, APAO was formed to create closer relationships between ophthalmologists and ophthalmological societies to combat blindness. The APAO publishes their journal, Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology, bi-monthly, and has expanded to over 25 member organizations from the Asia-Pacific region. For more information, please visit the publisher’s page on… Read more

New agreements
January 23, 2018

Japanese Urological Society to Preserve E-Journals with Portico

The Japanese Urological Association (JUA) will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring their content will be secure and available into the future. Introduced in Japan around 1900, the JUA was founded alongside the Japanese Dermatological Association and would later become its own entity in October of 1912. The JUA publishes several journals, including The Japanese Journal of Urology, which is considered the top urology journal in all of Asia. For more information, please visit the publisher’s page on the Portico… Read more

New agreements
January 4, 2018

Hylonome Publications to Preserve OA E-journals with Portico

Hylonome Publications will preserve open access e-journals with Portico, ensuring that it will be secure and available into the future. Based in Ireland, Hylonome is a host for open access journals, specializing in scientific publications with the intent to bridge academics and access to raw scientific research. For more information, please visit the publisher’s page on the Portico website. Read more

New agreements
Open access
December 8, 2017

Trans Tech Publications Ltd. to preserve e-journals with Portico

Trans Tech Publications Ltd. is will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that it will be secure and available into the future. Trans Tech Publications Ltd., founded in 1967, publishes monographs, series, and journals in the fields of materials science and engineering. For more information, please visit the publisher’s page on our site. Read more

New agreements
October 6, 2017

AAAS to preserve e-journals with Portico

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has entered into an agreement with Portico to preserve the following e-journals, ensuring this content will be secure and available in the future: Science Science Advances (Open Access) Science Immunology Science Robotics Science Signaling Science Translational Medicine Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society. It was founded in 1848 and includes nearly 250 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. The non-profit AAAS is… Read more

New agreements
September 8, 2017

CAS to preserve ChemZent product with Portico

CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) is preserving its ChemZentTM solution through Portico’s d-collection service, ensuring that it will be secure and available to ChemZent customers in the future. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is dedicated to the ACS vision of improving people’s lives through the transforming power of chemistry. The CAS team of highly trained scientists identifies, aggregates, and organizes all publicly disclosed chemistry information, creating the world’s most valuable collection of content that is vital to innovation… Read more

New agreements
August 24, 2017

IM Publications to preserve e-journals with Portico

IM Publications will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future. IM Publications have been established for over 25 years and now specialize in Open Access and free-to-read periodicals. Their publications include JSI—Journal of Spectral Imaging, a backlist of books and the controlled circulation magazines Spectroscopy Europe and Spectroscopy Asia, which are published jointly with John Wiley & Sons Ltd. “We investigated several organisations offering preservation services for our Open Access journals, and… Read more

New agreements