Subject: Duke University Press to Archive e-Books with Portico
From: Kim Steinle <ksteinle_at_dukeupress.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:08:21 -0500
For immediate release
January 22, 2009
For more information, contact
Kimberly Steinle, Library Relations Manager
libraryrelations_at_dukeupress.edu
Michael McCullough, Sales Manager
mmccullough_at_dukeupress.edu
dukeupress.edu/library
Duke University Press to Archive e-Books with Portico
Duke University Press will be archiving electronic books from the e-Duke
Books Scholarly Collection with Portico in a long-term strategy to
preserve electronic scholarly content. Duke University Press will be the
second publisher, after Elsevier, to archive its entire collection of
e-books with Portico.
"Libraries increasingly expect publishers to have established reliable
preservation arrangements for e-books in much the same way that they
have for e-journals," comments Eileen Fenton, Portico's executive
director. "We are pleased to work with our colleagues at Duke University
Press to respond to this need."
Steve Cohn, director of Duke University Press, adds, "With the shift to
electronic publishing, the preservation of scholarly work has
legitimately been of increasing concern to libraries. Portico enables us
to allay those concerns by providing dependable solutions that assure
continuous and perpetual access to archived electronic content. We are
very pleased to partner with Portico for the e-Duke Books Scholarly
Collection."
The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection was launched in 2008 and provides
online access to scholarly books published by Duke University Press in
the humanities and social sciences. The collection is hosted on the
ebrary(r) platform, which allows an unlimited number of simultaneous
users at a subscribing institution to access content and use ebrary's
searching, navigating, archiving, and other research tools.
About Portico
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
and books.
About Duke University Press
Duke University Press publishes approximately 120 books annually and
more than 35 periodicals in a wide range of disciplines within the
humanities and sciences. For more information about the e-Duke Books
Scholarly Collection and the Press's other electronic collections,
please visit dukeupress.edu/library.
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Kimberly Steinle
Library Relations Manager
Duke University Press
905 W. Main St., Suite 18B
Durham, NC 27701
Phone (919) 687-3655
Fax (919) 680-6078
ksteinle_at_dukeupress.edu
www.dukeupress.edu/library
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