Duke University Press to Archive e-Books with Portico

[Kim Steinle <ksteinle@dukeupress.edu>]

For immediate release
January 22, 2009

For more information, contact

Kimberly Steinle, Library Relations Manager
libraryrelations@dukeupress.edu

Michael McCullough, Sales Manager
mmccullough@dukeupress.edu
dukeupress.edu/library

Duke University Press to Archive e-Books with Portico

Duke University Press will be archiving electronic books from the 
e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection with Portico in a long-term 
strategy to preserve electronic scholarly content. Duke 
University Press will be the second publisher, after Elsevier, to 
archive its entire collection of e-books with Portico.

"Libraries increasingly expect publishers to have established 
reliable preservation arrangements for e-books in much the same 
way that they have for e-journals," comments Eileen Fenton, 
Portico's executive director. "We are pleased to work with our 
colleagues at Duke University Press to respond to this need."

Steve Cohn, director of Duke University Press, adds, "With the 
shift to electronic publishing, the preservation of scholarly 
work has legitimately been of increasing concern to libraries. 
Portico enables us to allay those concerns by providing 
dependable solutions that assure continuous and perpetual access 
to archived electronic content. We are very pleased to partner 
with Portico for the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection."

The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection was launched in 2008 and 
provides online access to scholarly books published by Duke 
University Press in the humanities and social sciences. The 
collection is hosted on the ebrary(r) platform, which allows an 
unlimited number of simultaneous users at a subscribing 
institution to access content and use ebrary's searching, 
navigating, archiving, and other research tools.

About Portico

Portico was launched in 2005 with support from JSTOR, Ithaka, the 
Library of Congress, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 
Portico's mission is to preserve scholarly literature published 
in electronic form and to ensure that it remains accessible to 
future generations of scholars, researchers, and students. In 
pursuit of this mission, Portico operates a secure, permanent 
archive of electronic scholarly journals and books.

About Duke University Press

Duke University Press publishes approximately 120 books annually 
and more than 35 periodicals in a wide range of disciplines 
within the humanities and sciences.  For more information about 
the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection and the Press's other 
electronic collections, please visit dukeupress.edu/library.

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Kimberly Steinle
Library Relations Manager
Duke University Press
905 W. Main St., Suite 18B
Durham, NC 27701

Phone (919) 687-3655
Fax (919) 680-6078
ksteinle@dukeupress.edu
www.dukeupress.edu/library