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For immediate release: Nov. 8, 2006

CONTACT: Mandy Dailey-Berman (Duke University Press, Journals Publicity 
Coordinator)
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DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, DUKE LIBRARIES TO SUPPORT LONG-TERM STRATEGIES 
FOR PRESERVING ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY JOURNAL CONTENT

DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University Press and Duke University Libraries will 
be participating in Portico and the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff 
Safe) Alliance, two long-term strategies to preserve electronic 
scholarly journal content for future scholars, school officials 
announced Wednesday.

“The mandate to preserve scholarly work is an implicit and critical 
component of a library’s mission and one that has been vastly 
complicated by both the shift to electronic publishing and the fiscal 
challenges that libraries now face,” says Kimberly Steinle, Duke 
University Press’s library relations manager. “Portico and LOCKSS offer 
libraries reliable solutions to these problems, securing perpetual 
access to archived online content, while also eliminating the financial 
burden of creating an archive.”

Kevin L. Smith, scholarly communication officer at Duke, adds, “We 
recognize that academic research libraries such as those here at Duke 
University need to invest in digital repositories that help scholars 
maintain access to and control of their research product at various 
stages. Both LOCKSS and Portico represent substantive progress on the 
broad issue of electronic archiving.”

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. 
To date, more than 5,200 journals have been promised to the Portico 
archive, and a broad range of scholarly publishers and libraries have 
chosen to participate in Portico as an important component of their 
archiving strategy.

Initiated by Stanford University Libraries, LOCKSS is open source 
software that provides librarians with an easy and inexpensive way to 
collect, store, preserve, and provide access to the local copy of 
authorized content they purchase. Running on standard desktop hardware 
and requiring almost no technical administration, LOCKSS provides 
accessible copies of e-journal content as it is published.

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Kimberly Steinle
Library Relations Manager
Duke University Press
905 West Main Street, Suite 18-B
Durham, NC 27701
919-687-3655 (ph) 919-688-3524 (fax)
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