Portico Archive Supports First Trigger Event

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:14:35 -0400
From: Ken DiFiore <participation@portico.org>
Subject: Portico Archive Supports First Trigger Event

Dear Colleagues,

Many of you have requested that we keep you updated on Portico’s 
progress as we continue to preserve electronic journals in the 
Portico archive, so we will periodically be writing to you with 
this information.  If you feel that you have received this email 
in error, or would prefer not to receive these Portico updates, 
please email us at participation@portico.org.

Portico Archive Supports First Trigger Event

Graft: Organ and Cell Transplantation, published by SAGE 
Publications from January 2001 to March 2003, will be removed 
from SAGE's online offering at the end of this year creating the 
first ever trigger event for the Portico archive and Portico's 
participating publishers and libraries.

Because SAGE Publications, a leading international publisher of 
electronic media, journals and books, has ensured that Graft is 
preserved in the Portico archive and because Graft will not be 
offered by any other commercial online source, Portico will 
"light up" this portion of the Portico archive and provide access 
to literature that otherwise would be lost to the scholarly 
community. Through this first trigger event Portico demonstrates 
how publishers, archives, and libraries can cooperatively provide 
a permanent archive of scholarly literature published in 
electronic form and avoid a permanent gap in the scholarly 
record.

On December 3, 2007, Portico will make Graft available to its 
library participants via the Portico website and access via SAGE 
will end December 31, 2007. In the coming days, Portico will 
forward to its library participants instructions for accessing 
Graft. In the meantime, if you would like more information about 
Portico, or would like to discuss your institution's 
participation in Portico, please contact us at 
participation@portico.org.

Best regards,

Ken

Kenneth DiFiore, MLS   
Associate Director of Library Relations, Portico
tel: 212 358-6415
fax: 212 358-6499
email: ken.difiore@portico.org
web: www.portico.org

The mission of Portico is to preserve scholarly literature 
published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials 
remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students.