From: Marita LaMonica <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:24:41 -0500

More than 90 International University Presses Preserving E-Books with Portico

Portico is now preserving e-books from more than 90 university presses
in 6 countries. This includes Cambridge University Press and
university press e-books hosted by JSTOR (Books at JSTOR), Project
Muse (UPCC Collections), and Oxford University Press (University Press
Scholarship Online). These presses and their platform partners are
contributing to the preservation of tens of thousands of e-books.

“The university press community has been a long-time supporter of
digital preservation,” said Peter Dougherty, president of the
Association of American University Presses and director of Princeton
University Press. “It’s great to see many AAUP members working with
Portico through these relationships.”

With the Books at JSTOR program, Portico will preserve e-books from
more than 30 university presses as well as independent not-for-profit
organizations. Project Muse and Portico partnered in late 2012 to
preserve e-books from more than 70 presses. Oxford University Press
and Cambridge University Press have been working with Portico since
2006 and 2007 respectively; first to preserve their e-journals and
then to preserve their e-books.

“Like many others, the number of e-books we’re publishing continues to
grow to meet demand,” stated Charles Watkinson, director, Purdue
University Press, which is part of the UPCC Books offering. “Digital
preservation of this content has become a pressing issue that our
community needs to continue to address.”

The community goes beyond the presses themselves. Nearly two-thirds of
the university libraries at these presses’ home institutions also
participate in Portico. This collaboration signals the kind of
university-wide commitment to preserving scholarly publications that’s
needed today. “Portico participation from both university libraries
and university presses reflects the founding purpose of Portico—to
create a trusted, shared digital preservation archive that the
community as a whole can support,” stated Carol Mandel, dean of the
division of libraries, New York University and Portico advisor.

Portico’s E-Book Service has more than 170,000 titles committed for
preservation. Publishers that support this service range from large
commercial publishers to university presses and small independent
publishers. More information about this service is available at
http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/services/e-book-preservation-service.

About Portico

Portico (www.portico.org) is a digital preservation service for
e-journals, e-books, and other scholarly e-content. The Portico
archive is certified as a “trustworthy digital repository” by the
Center for Research Libraries; more than 15,000 e-journals, more than
170,000 e-books, and 72 d-collections have been entrusted to it.