As we begin a new year, we are pleased to be able to share with you our progress in preserving the content that you have committed to the Portico archive. We very much appreciate the opportunity to work with you to address the need for secure preservation of scholarly resources, and it is our goal to keep you informed about our work and progress. Portico continues to ingest a growing stream of ejournal, ebook, and digital… Read more
In Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing, Nature’s editorial board calls on the global research community to take steps to better preserve the growing number of research papers being produced each year, with a particular focus on at-risk publications. Citing a study published earlier this year in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication that says at least 2 million research articles are not being preserved, the editorial highlights three ways to help… Read more
The Portico digital preservation service is developing a pilot project to include in our dark archive important under-represented content that may be at-risk because it is not preserved. For this project, we define under-represented content as material concerning people, communities, or topics that have had inadequate representation in traditional publishing, library and archival collections, and preservation services and that may therefore be at risk over the long term. At Portico, we want to be able to provide the resources and… Read more
News content produced by media and news organizations is a treasure trove of cultural, political, and social history, but it’s at risk. Much of this content is now published in digital-only formats with no long-term preservation solution in place. Losing access to this material means the erasure of critical historical records, depriving future researchers, historians, and the public of valuable insights. It requires active preservation to protect against loss. To ensure the security and accessibility of this material, Portico—along with… Read more
Kate Wittenberg, Portico Managing Director, sat down with Lisa Peet at Library Journal to discuss our organizational commitment to DEI, using the preservation infrastructure we’ve built to support at-risk collections, and the challenge of identifying and connecting with underrepresented community archives. The resulting article, Portico Pilot Project Offers Digital Preservation to Underrepresented Community Collections, delves into the motivations behind the pilot and highlights those archives working with Portico to preserve their uniquely valuable collections:… Read more
Certain types of archival materials and scholarly publications are particularly vulnerable to being lost without a preservation plan in place. How can we ensure that this valuable content is secured for future generations of researchers? In honor of Preservation Week 2024, Kate Wittenberg, Managing Director of Portico, shared updates on how we’re working with librarians, publishers, and the digital preservation community to develop new solutions to this challenge. Safeguarding cultural heritage:… Read more
Originally published February 2024. Reposted from The Scholarly Kitchen with author permission. Continuing our Kitchen Essentials series of interviews with leaders of infrastructure organizations, this week we are speaking with leaders of preservation initiatives. Today we’re hearing from Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson, the Managing Director and Lead Research Developer, respectively of Portico, the community-supported preservation archive that safeguards access to e-journals, e-books, and digital collections. Full disclosure: Portico is a service of ITHAKA,… Read more
Digital preservation is a global challenge that requires memory organizations to coordinate efforts and share best practices across international and organizational boundaries. As a nonprofit leader in this area, we are deeply engaged with the digital preservation community to support this work. We recently strengthened our collaboration with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), an international charitable foundation focused on digital preservation, by agreeing to host a US-based DPC-dedicated staff member who will lead a… Read more
ITHAKA announced today a new set of services to help academic, research, and cultural institutions easily and affordably share, preserve, and manage their local digital collections. Using the same infrastructure that powers ITHAKA’s nonprofit services JSTOR and Portico, institutions can now increase the reach and usefulness of their local digital collections, secure access for generations to come, and further the mission they share with one another and ITHAKA to improve access to knowledge worldwide. “Research and learning increasingly take place… Read more
Portico and the KB, National Library of the Netherlands, are pleased to announce that they have extended their longstanding collaboration to host an online replica of the Portico archive at the KB. For more than a decade, the KB and Portico cooperated to form and implement their respective digital preservation principles and practices. They have worked together over the years to research the handling of digital preservation formats and to develop automated preservation workflows. As part of this work, Portico… Read more