IReL joins with Portico (08 . 07 . 2008)
The Portico service offers a permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals, thereby providing protection against the potential loss of access to e-literature integral to a library's collection.
Portico provides all libraries supporting the archive with campus-wide access to archived content when specific trigger events occur, and when titles are no longer available from the publisher or other source. Trigger events include:
- A publisher stops operations; or
- A publisher ceases to publish a title; or
- A publisher no longer offers back issues; or
- Upon catastrophic and sustained failure of a publisher's delivery platform.
Portico also provides a reliable means to secure perpetual access, if participating publishers choose to designate Portico as a provider of post-cancellation access. In addition, select librarians at participating libraries are granted password-controlled access for verification and audit purposes only.
Participation Benefits
A relationship with Portico offers libraries:
- A practical means to act upon their traditional preservation mandate in support of the parent institution's educational mission.
- An opportunity to accelerate the transition to preferred electronic resources without sacrificing future accessibility.
- Reduced system-wide preservation costs that, through collaborative effort, eliminates the need for each library to locally receive and archive electronic journal literature.
- An opportunity to rely more heavily upon electronic resources and realize savings through reduced costs associated with print subscriptions, handling, and storage.
- A means to secure perpetual access if a participating publisher chooses to designate Portico as a provider of post-cancellation access.
For details of IReL's agreement with Portico, see http://www.irelibrary.ie/resource.aspx?id=117
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