Marquette Libraries Join Portico |
 January 2008--The Marquette Libraries announce membership in Portico, a not-for-profit service that provides a
permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals. Portico's mission is "to preserve
scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible
to future scholars, researchers, and students.” The major benefit to the Marquette community
is continued access to e-journals despite disruptive occurrences, such as titles being dropped by a
publisher, backfiles no longer being available, or a publisher going out of business. Just as
JSTOR provides a secure archive for bound journals, Portico insures continuing access to digital
journals.
Portico has been building its archive of e-journal content since 2002, but the first "trigger" event just occurred at the end of 2007, when Sage Publications became the first Portico partner to remove content archived by Portico. Researchers everywhere would have lost access to the journal Graft: Organ and Cell Transplantation (published 2001-2003) had it not been archived by Portico. Now, because of Marquette's membership, library users experience a seamless connection to Graft via MARQCAT. Portico currently has 46 publishing partners with over 7,200 committed titles and almost five million articles. To date there are 411 participating libraries. Portico began as the Electronic-Archiving Initiative launched by JSTOR in 2002 with a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The current service, known as Portico, opened in 2005 with additional support from JSTOR, Ithaka, The Library of Congress, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. According to Jay Kirk, coordinator of Marquette Libraries' collection development, "Portico is filling a critical need and campus researchers will benefit from reliable access to this electronic dark archive." |
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