From: Marita LaMonica <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:38:00 -0400

Library Support for Portico Expands Across Europe

Ten institutions from the Netherlands and Switzerland Join

March 27, 2014 New York, NY Portico announced today that members of
Netherland's SURFmarket and Switzerland's Consortium of Swiss Academic
Libraries joined Portico. With the addition of these institutions,
more than half of Portico's library participants are now located
outside of the United States.

"We knew we needed a digital preservation solution to secure our
growing investment in electronic resources," said Kurt De Belder,
university librarian at Leiden University in the Netherlands. "We
chose Portico because of its archive size, its robust digital
preservation approach, and its track record in providing access to
triggered content." Anja Meyer, librarian at ETH Zürich in Switzerland
added, "The uncomplicated process of participating in Portico has
definitely been a big plus, and ETH-Bibliothek encourages other
libraries and publishers to join Portico."

The 10 institutions include Leiden University, University of
Amsterdam, University of Groningen, and Utrecht University in the
Netherlands; and Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich),
University of Basel, University of Fribourg, University of Lausanne,
University of St. Gallen, and University of Zürich in Switzerland.
They are the first institutions to participate in Portico in their
respective countries.

These institutions join nearly 250 European participants from Austria,
Greece, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and the United
Kingdom. "We believe that digital preservation is a community effort,"
stated Kate Wittenberg, Portico managing director. "And I could not be
more pleased to see support coming from around the globe." Bruce
Heterick, vice president of Outreach & Participation Services for
Portico commented, "It is great to see the way digital preservation
support has grown over the years, and our goal is to help more
librarians around the world feel secure about their expanding
investment in electronic resources."

About Portico

Portico is a digital preservation service for electronic journals,
books, and digitized historical collections. The Portico archive is
one of the largest community-supported digital archives in the world
and is certified as a "trustworthy digital repository" by the Center
for Research Libraries (CRL). Portico is supported by more than 900
libraries and more than 240 publishers worldwide--representing more
than 2,000 scholarly societies and associations.

Portico is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the
academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly
record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. For
more information, visit www.portico.org.