UKSG announces participation in Portico archive Bev Acreman 28 Feb 2006 10:21 UTC
**With apologies for cross posting** UKSG announces participation in Portico archive UKSG - the international group for members of the scholarly communication industry and Portico - the permanent archive of scholarly electronic journals - announced today that the UKSG journal, Serials, would be added to the Portico archive - making UKSG the fifth publisher to participate in Portico's innovative electronic journal preservation service. A permanent archive of UKSG's peer-reviewed journal Serials will be added to Portico - a not-for-profit electronic archiving service launched in 2005 with support from JSTOR http://www.jstor.org <http://www.jstor.org/> , The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation <http://www.mellon.org/>, Ithaka <http://www.ithaka.org <http://www.ithaka.org/> >, and the Library of Congress <http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/>. Eileen Fenton, Executive Director, of Portico remarked: "Portico and UKSG share a similar ethos, in that both exist for the general benefit of all the players in the scholarly communication industry - including librarians, publishers, intermediaries, aggregators, and technology companies. Adding Serials to the growing Portico archive will ensure that future generations of researchers are guaranteed perpetual access to UKSG's journal. We look forward to working with UKSG". Keith Courtney, UKSG Chair, commented: "The UKSG is delighted to support Portico and to benefit from its service. As an organization that exists to promote development and debate in the scholarly publishing sector, UKSG wholeheartedly supports Portico's laudable aim of providing a secure future for the world's peer-reviewed research output." About Portico: The mission of Portico is to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students. For more information, contact Toni M Tracy, Director, Publisher Relations, Portico. Tel. +1 (609) 258 8392. E-mail. toni.tracy@portico.org <mailto:toni.tracy@portico.org> http://www.portico.org <http://www.portico.org/> <http://www.portico.org <http://www.portico.org/> > About UKSG: The UK Serials Group (UKSG) exists to encourage the exchange of ideas on printed and electronic serials and the process of scholarly communication. With a membership of nearly 600 organisations, a third of them based outside the UK, the UKSG engages a broad cross-section of people concerned with the publication, distribution and use of serials. Members automatically have access to the well known and internationally respected peer-reviewed journal, Serials. Serials covers all aspects of the scholarly communications chain, and contains topical articles written by librarians, publishers, aggregators and other experts within the global serials industry, as well as conference reports, and editorial comment. For more information, contact Alison Whitehorn, Business Manager, UK Serials Group Tel. +44 (0)1635 254292. E-mail. alison@uksg.org http://www.uksg.org <http://www.uksg.org/> <http://www.uksg.org <http://www.uksg.org/> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this email message may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Although this message and any attachments are believed to be free of viruses, no responsibility is accepted by Informa for any loss or damage arising in any way from receipt or use thereof. Messages to and from the company are monitored for operational reasons and in accordance with lawful business practices. If you have received this message in error, please notify us by return and delete the message and any attachments. Further enquiries/returns can be sent to postmaster@informa.com