From: Marita LaMonica <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 17:31:57 -0400

(New York, NY August 18, 2014) The not-for-profit digital archive
Portico and CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United
States) have entered into an agreement to support the preservation
requirements of the policy memorandum released in February 2013 by the
White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). This
policy directs United States federal agencies to develop plans to make
articles reporting on the research they fund freely available to the
public immediately or after an embargo period, and highlights
requirements needed to ensure long-term access to this research
through preservation.

“Making sure that articles reporting on federally funded research are
preserved and will always be freely available to the public is a key
CHORUS objective,” said Howard Ratner, executive director of CHORUS.
“To that end, we are pleased to be working with Portico, a trusted
dark archive that has served the preservation needs of the scholarly
research community for years.”

Portico already preserves more than 18,700 academic journals,
including those from major scientific publishers. Through the
agreement, Portico will provide CHORUS with preservation status for
articles reporting on U.S.-funded research for those publishers who
are members of CHORUS as well as Portico. To ensure compliance, this
group of publishers will extend their existing agreements with Portico
to allow Portico to provide public access to relevant articles in the
event of a public access failure, whereby an article is no longer
openly available to the public through a publisher’s site.

“Portico’s mission is to support the preservation needs of publishers,
librarians, and researchers as new projects develop out of the
changing scholarly landscape,” commented Kate Wittenberg, managing
director of Portico. “We are pleased to be able to advance our mission
through this agreement with CHORUS.”

About CHORUS

CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) is a
suite of services and best practices that provide a sustainable
solution to deliver public access to published articles reporting on
funded research in the United States. CHORUS is the first initiative
of the not-for-profit public-private partnership, CHOR, Inc., whose
goal is to advance public access to peer-reviewed journal literature.
CHORUS went into production in July 2014 with more than 100
signatories. See www.chorusaccess.org for more information.

About Portico

Portico (www.portico.org) is among the largest not-for-profit
community-supported digital archives in the world. Working with
libraries and publishers, Portico preserves e-journals, e-books, and
other electronic scholarly content to ensure researchers and students
will have access to it in the future.

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