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INFORMS and Portico Announce Long-Term Journals Preservation Agreement
HANOVER, MD, February 25, 2009 - The Institute for Operations Research
and the Management Sciences (INFORMS(r)) today announced that it has
signed an agreement with Portico, the electronic archiving service of
Ithaka, Inc., to archive the association's 12 scholarly journals.
"This agreement and INFORMS' electronic archive assure our subscribers
that our journals will be available in perpetuity," says INFORMS
Publications Director Patricia Shaffer. "Our institutional subscribers
can take heart that electronic copies of our studies and journals will
always be available, and that print copies will not be the only certain
archival source."
The agreement follows the association's 2008 introduction of the INFORMS
Journal Archive 1952-1997
<http://www.informs.org/downloadfile.php?i=34ed066df378efacc9b924ec161e7
639> for the association's institutional subscribers. The INFORMS
Archive provides academic institutions with online access to 197 total
volumes, 1,243 issues, over 15,000 articles, and 177,000 pages covering
operations research and its historical impact in its Journals Archive.
The new INFORMS/Portico agreement provides additional assurance to
university and specialized libraries that INFORMS journals will remain
accessible in the future. Under the terms of the agreement, the "dark
archive" would provide access to INFORMS journals under four
circumstances:
1. if INFORMS is no longer in business
2. if a publication is no longer offered
3. if back issues are no longer available
4. if INFORMS stopped publishing or providing journal access for
more than 90 days.
INFORMS journals
<http://www.informs.org/index.php?c=57&kat=PUBLICATIONS> are strongly
cited in their categories in Journal Citation Reports, the industry
source. The special MBA issue published by BusinessWeek includes the
flagship journals Operations Research and Management Science and two
other INFORMS journals in its list of 20 top academic journals that are
used to evaluate business school programs. Financial Times includes five
INFORMS journals in its list of academic journals used to evaluate MBA
programs.
About INFORMS
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
(INFORMS(r)) is an international scientific society with 10,000 members,
including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific
methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations.
Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are
represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law
enforcement, the military, financial engineering, and
telecommunications. The INFORMS website is www.informs.org
<http://www.informs.org/> . More information about operations research
is at www.scienceofbetter.org <http://www.scienceofbetter.org/> .
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