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December 9, 2024

Portico highlighted in Nature’s Call for Action to Preserve Digital Research

In Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing, Nature’s editorial board calls on the global research community to take steps to better preserve the growing number of research papers being produced each year, with a particular focus on at-risk publications. Citing a study published earlier this year in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication that says at least 2 million research articles are not being preserved, the editorial highlights three ways to help… Read more

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November 7, 2024

Portico pilot project preserves under-represented archival content

The Portico digital preservation service is developing a pilot project to include in our dark archive important under-represented content that may be at-risk because it is not preserved. For this project, we define under-represented content as material concerning people, communities, or topics that have had inadequate representation in traditional publishing, library and archival collections, and preservation services and that may therefore be at risk over the long term. At Portico, we want to be able to provide the resources and… Read more

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September 6, 2024

Ensuring the legacy of digital news: A new preservation pilot project

News content produced by media and news organizations is a treasure trove of cultural, political, and social history, but it’s at risk. Much of this content is now published in digital-only formats with no long-term preservation solution in place. Losing access to this material means the erasure of critical historical records, depriving future researchers, historians, and the public of valuable insights. It requires active preservation to protect against loss. To ensure the security and accessibility of this material, Portico—along with… Read more

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September 4, 2024

In the news: Portico Pilot Project Offers Digital Preservation to Underrepresented Community Collections

Kate Wittenberg, Portico Managing Director, sat down with Lisa Peet at Library Journal to discuss our organizational commitment to DEI, using the preservation infrastructure we’ve built to support at-risk collections, and the challenge of identifying and connecting with underrepresented community archives. The resulting article, Portico Pilot Project Offers Digital Preservation to Underrepresented Community Collections, delves into the motivations behind the pilot and highlights those archives working with Portico to preserve their uniquely valuable collections:… Read more

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July 22, 2024

Portico access alert: International Journal of Business & Cyber Security

Portico is now providing access to the e-journal content – International Journal of Business & Cyber Security published from Centre for Business & Economic Research. This title has ceased publication and is no longer available through the publisher website; therefore, it has been “triggered” and is now available to the community via the Portico archive. Manage access to triggered content Portico ensures ongoing access to content that is no longer available through its original publisher or a successor. Read more

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May 28, 2024

How Portico preserves the most at-risk content

Certain types of archival materials and scholarly publications are particularly vulnerable to being lost without a preservation plan in place. How can we ensure that this valuable content is secured for future generations of researchers? In honor of Preservation Week 2024, Kate Wittenberg, Managing Director of Portico, shared updates on how we’re working with librarians, publishers, and the digital preservation community to develop new solutions to this challenge. Safeguarding cultural heritage:… Read more

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February 27, 2024

An interview with Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson of Portico

Originally published February 2024. Reposted from The Scholarly Kitchen with author permission. Continuing our Kitchen Essentials series of interviews with leaders of infrastructure organizations, this week we are speaking with leaders of preservation initiatives. Today we’re hearing from Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson, the Managing Director and Lead Research Developer, respectively of Portico, the community-supported preservation archive that safeguards access to e-journals, e-books, and digital collections. Full disclosure: Portico is a service of ITHAKA,… Read more

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February 27, 2024

Portico works with the Digital Preservation Coalition to advance global digital preservation

Digital preservation is a global challenge that requires memory organizations to coordinate efforts and share best practices across international and organizational boundaries. As a nonprofit leader in this area, we are deeply engaged with the digital preservation community to support this work. We recently strengthened our collaboration with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), an international charitable foundation focused on digital preservation, by agreeing to host a US-based DPC-dedicated staff member who will lead a… Read more

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February 5, 2024

Key developments in Portico’s work: 2023 year in review

As we enter 2024, we are pleased to share the important benefits libraries receive as a Portico participant and provide an update on ways we plan to meet emerging and future preservation needs. Expanding the digital archive Portico continues to ingest a growing stream of e-journal, ebook, and digital collection content into the archive. The number of archival units, or items, (e.g., journals, articles, books, newspaper issues, documents) being preserved has grown to 149,820,075, with the number of files being… Read more

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June 21, 2023

ITHAKA announces new services for academic, research, and cultural institutions to share, preserve, and manage digital collections

ITHAKA announced today a new set of services to help academic, research, and cultural institutions easily and affordably share, preserve, and manage their local digital collections. Using the same infrastructure that powers ITHAKA’s nonprofit services JSTOR and Portico, institutions can now increase the reach and usefulness of their local digital collections, secure access for generations to come, and further the mission they share with one another and ITHAKA to improve access to knowledge worldwide. “Research and learning increasingly take place… Read more

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