From: Marita LaMonica <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:01:21 -0400

*Apologies for cross-posting*

Path breaking partnership helps national library preserve thousands of
e-journals for future generations

The British Library and Portico work together on e-journal deposit
infrastructure

London, UK and New York, NY - June 19, 2013 The British Library and
digital preservation specialist Portico announced today that they will
be working together to ensure that thousands of electronic journal
titles will be collected, preserved and made available to current and
future generations of researchers.

The partnership will help the British Library—along with five other
legal deposit libraries—to meet regulations that recently became law
in the United Kingdom and that extend the practice of legal deposit
from traditional print publications to non-print publications such as
e-journals, blogs and websites in the UK web domain.

Portico will utilize its established workflow and processes to create
standardized and uniform journal content that can be exported to the
British Library. They have started with 1,500 journals from three
publishers that are already preserving content with Portico. As
necessary, Portico will develop new tools for processing additional
publisher content.

The British Library and Portico began their work together through a
pilot project in 2012. The two organizations developed their systems
as part of the pilot and were thus able to "turn on" automatic
delivery of content to the British Library as soon as legislation
passed.

Alasdair Ball, head of Collection Acquisition and Description at the
British Library said, "We're delighted to be working with Portico,
using their expertise and technical infrastructure to help us meet the
requirements of the new regulations. By working with a respected and
well-established provider we'll gradually enable publishers to deposit
their electronic journal content easily and securely, thereby ensuring
that it's collected, preserved and made accessible for future
generations of researchers."

"I am excited that together we have identified a way to ensure that
the library community is able to use the same set of tools they've
invested in through Portico to meet national digital preservation
needs," stated Kate Wittenberg, managing director, Portico.