“Non-profit elec­tronic archiv­ing ser­vice provider Por­tico, US, has announced that more than 10 mil­lion jour­nal arti­cles are pre­served within the Por­tico archive. Launched in 2005 with sup­port from JSTOR, The Andrew W. Mel­lon Foun­da­tion, Ithaka, and the Library of Con­gress, Por­tico pro­vides a per­ma­nent archive of schol­arly lit­er­a­ture pub­lished in elec­tronic form.

The Por­tico archive is sup­ported by both pub­lish­ers and libraries and is increas­ingly cen­tral to the dig­i­tal preser­va­tion and per­ma­nent access strate­gies of insti­tu­tions around the world.

The growth of the archive under­scores the impor­tance of preser­va­tion archives in facil­i­tat­ing a secure tran­si­tion from print to elec­tronic col­lec­tions. At the close of 2008, 68 pub­lish­ers pro­duc­ing jour­nals and e-books on behalf of hun­dreds of schol­arly soci­eties par­tic­i­pated in Por­tico and have entrusted over 8,200 jour­nal titles and 4,600 e-books to the archive. Libraries from the global com­mu­nity have been equally sup­port­ive of Por­tico with nearly 500 cur­rent par­tic­i­pants from 13 countries.

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Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter