BioOne announces journal preservation agreement with Portico
Press Release, May 26, 2006
Washington, DC — BioOne is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Portico to preserve the electronic editions of participating journal content and to further ensure long-term access to digital material. Portico is a non-profit service dedicated to the long-term preservation of peer-reviewed electronic journals. A collaborative partnership with the library community, BioOne appreciates and is strongly committed to long-term preservation initiatives. The participation in Portico is a key new development in BioOne’s evolving archiving strategy.
Building on the partnership established in 2004 with JSTOR, this agreement enhances BioOne’s long-term commitment to ensure preservation of digital content. The BioOne titles not participating in JSTOR’s Biological Sciences Collection will be archived with Portico, and JSTOR will preserve the e-version of titles in its collections using the Portico archiving infrastructure that it helped develop and continues to support. Access to archived content in JSTOR will be in accordance with the moving wall, while access to archived content in Portico will be made available under the terms of the standard, pre-defined trigger events.
As part of the agreement with Portico, BioOne will make an annual financial contribution to support the Archive’s ongoing operations and has designated Portico as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. BioOne will make this contribution on behalf of, and at not cost to, participating publishers.
Portico was launched in 2005 with support from JSTOR, Ithaka, The Library of Congress, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It developed out of the Electronic-Archiving Initiative launched by JSTOR in 2002, with a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and building upon the Foundation’s seminal E-Journal Archiving Program. The mission of Portico is to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students. With the inclusion of BioOne’s journal publications, nearly 3,500 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. For more information on Portico, please visit http://www.portico.org.
BioOne was founded as a unique partnership among librarians, publishers and scholars to provide an outlet for independent non-profit publishers to publish biological science journal content online in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. Celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2006, BioOne now provides access to 84 publications, most peer-reviewed journals, published by 69 organizations and is available to more than 1,400 institutions worldwide. For more information regarding BioOne, please visit http://www.BioOne.org or contact Todd Carpenter, Director of Business Development at BioOne, at todd@arl.org.
