Emerald partners with Portico

["Janet Fisher" <jfisher@pcgplus.com>]

We thought your readers would be interested in this agreement 
with Portico.

Janet Fisher
PCG


Emerald to preserve e-journals with Portico

United Kingdom, June 15, 2009- Emerald Group Publishing is 
pleased to announce its recent agreement with Portico. Portico 
provides a service to permanently preserve scholarly research in 
electronic form so that this information will remain accessible 
to scholars in future years. Portico will receive Emerald content 
via an electronic data feed, which they will convert to a 
standardized archival format. They will maintain and operate the 
archive on behalf of Emerald. Each new publication will be added 
as and when published, with a view to archiving back issues in 
the future.

This development will provide Emerald with security in the event 
of potential loss and will provide Portico's participating 
libraries with content if an incident occurs that causes the 
material to be inaccessible from Emerald. Emerald joins the 
growing list of publishers who have entrusted their e-journals 
and e-books to the Portico archive.

Rebecca Marsh, Publishing Director for Emerald, comments, 
"Emerald recognizes the importance of the long-term preservation 
of its content to ensure that it is accessible to society at 
large in perpetuity, whatever might happen in the future. Portico 
provides a permanent archive of electronic journals and it is 
clear that a large number of librarians value their service. 
Therefore, we are very pleased to be partnering with Portico."

Eileen Fenton, Executive Director of Portico, noted that "We are 
so pleased that Emerald now joins the hundreds of associations, 
societies and publishers entrusting materials to the Portico 
archive.  As reliance upon electronic scholarly publications 
increases, so too does the importance of reliable preservation 
partnerships and we are pleased to work with the community to 
address this critical need."

A full list of e-journals and e-books committed to the Portico 
archive is available at www.portico.org.

For further information about this agreement contact Holly 
Shukla, Business Development Account manager, at 
hshukla@emeraldinsight.com

-ENDS-