PRESS RELEASE
Immediate Release
Portland Press Preserves e-journal content
with PORTICO AND the CLOCKSS Archive
LONDON - JANUARY 28, 2013 - Portland Press Limited is pleased to announce that it has signed agreements with both CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS - Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and Portico to ensure its e-journal content is deposited securely within these trusted dark-archives and preserved for future generations.
Caroline Black, Managing Director of Portland Press, said: "It is important as a non-profit publisher that we can offer perpetual access to the research submitted to us through our journals and we are committed to ensuring the long-term accessibility of the research entrusted to our titles. Both the CLOCKSS and PORTICO initiatives enable us to guarantee the conservation of this content so that it can be securely archived and made widely available through academic institutions and recognized portals."
The stability offered by these systems provides assurance to the scholarly community and publishers alike, such that any content delivered by Portland Press Limited will be maintained within the archives until such time as it becomes 'orphaned' by the publisher. Such an event is known as a 'trigger event'. In the event of a disaster that would normally prevent the delivery of the content from the publisher themselves, these archives ensure that access to the journals is maintained.
This initiative by Portland Press Limited should also help to facilitate a transition for libraries and institutions to online-only access, enabling librarians to re-purpose print budgets to other innovative e-resources.
Collective management of the dark archives by institutions and publishers alike ensures that no content is controlled by any one single entity and in an academic world where 'content is king', accessibility to research papers and archived research remains a top priority for Portland Press Limited.
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For further information please contact:
Caroline Black (Managing Director)
Portland Press Limited
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Notes to Editors:
o Portland Press Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, is a not-for-profit, innovative publisher of journals, books and electronic resources in the biochemical, cellular and molecular life sciences. The surplus from the sale of publications is returned to the scientific community via the activity of the Biochemical Society. www.portlandpress.com<http://www.portlandpress.com>
* The Biochemical Society<http://www.biochemistry.org/Home.aspx> - The Biochemical Society promotes the advancement of the molecular biosciences, representing the interests of all those working in the sector. The Biochemical Society is the largest discipline-based learned society in the Biosciences with more than 6,000 members.
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o CLOCKSS is a not-for-profit joint venture started by libraries and publishers committed to ensuring long-term access to scholarly publications in digital format. As libraries migrate from print to online-only publications, they expect assurances from publishers that their shared investments are protected and preserved for generations to come. The CLOCKSS archive provides this assurance via its secure network of content that can be accessed only when a trigger event is deemed to have occurred. CLOCKSS is unique because it makes all content triggered from the archive freely available to the world. www.clockss.org<http://www.clockss.org>
o Portico is among the largest community-supported digital archives in the world. Working with libraries, publishers, and funders, they preserve e-journals, e-books, and other electronic scholarly content to ensure researchers and students will have access to it in the future. www.portico.org<http://www.portico.org>
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