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EDP Sciences has signed an agreement with Portico to preserve their key journals in perpetuity through Portico’s deep archive ensuring their content will remain secure and accessible to future generations of scholars. Current data will be sent to Portico as soon as the e-journal is published.

EDP Sciences is a long established publisher with over a century’s experience, they understand fully the importance of long-term preservation of its content and the value that Librarians and Consortia Managers place on this service.

Full details in the press release below (including the full list of journals committed to the Portico archive) or online at: http://publications.edpsciences.org/images/stories/news/2015/Portico-PR.pdf

Please do get in touch with me or Nathalie Matelot at EDP Sciences (contact details below) for further information.

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PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EDP Sciences to preserve Journals with Portico

Key journals will be preserved in perpetuity through Portico’s deep archive

Paris, 14 March 2015: EDP Sciences is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Portico to provide a permanent archive of the e-content for many of their key journals. Through this agreement, institutions participating in Portico’s E-Journal PreservationService will be assured continued access to EDP Sciences content for generations of their scholars in the future.

EDP Sciences joins an increasing list of publishers who have entrusted their e-journals to the Portico archive and provides surety that their content will remain secure and accessible into the future independent of availability on the EDP Sciences website.

Jean-Marc Quilbé, President of EDP Sciences says “As a publishing company with almost a century’s experience, EDP Sciences understands how important long-term preservation of its content is to ensure that it remains accessible regardless of what happens in the future. Providing a permanent archive of e-journal content is a service highly valued by the Librarians and Consortia Managers we work with and we are therefore delighted to now be partnering with Portico.”

Stephanie Orphan, director of Publisher Relations at Portico commented, “We are very pleased that EDP Sciences is now joining the many associations, societies and publishers entrusting materials to the Portico archive and we look forward to working with them.”

EDP partners with prestigious societies, publishers and prominent academics and publishes over 55 scientific journals across the fields of physical sciences, astronomy, mathematics, life and environmental sciences, energy, materials sciences and engineering, health and biomedical sciences. Current data will be sent to Portico as soon as the e-journal is published, and a full list of the journals committed to the Portico archive is available at http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/who-participates-in-portico/participating-publishers/edp.

For more information about this release, please contact Nathalie Matelot, email: [log in to unmask]

ENDS

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About EDP

EDP Sciences is a not-for-profit publisher, established in 1920, belonging to learned societies with a mission to participate in the dissemination of important research that accelerates scientific progress and cross-fertilisation of ideas of the society in general. EDP Sciences is located in Paris and London and publishes over 55 scientific journals in the physical sciences, mathematics, life and environmental sciences, energy, materials and engineering, health and biomedical sciences. It also publishes 20 professional magazines, conference proceedings (www.webofconferences.org) and books.

About Portico
Portico is a digital preservation service for electronic journals, books, and digitized historical collections. The Portico archive is one of the largest community-supported digital archives in the world and is certified as a “trustworthy digital repository” by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).  Portico is supported by more than 900 libraries and more than 220 publishers—representing more than 2000 scholarly societies and associations—worldwide. Portico is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. For more information, visit www.portico.org.
 

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