Portico
Product Highlights
Portico is among the largest community-supported
digital archives in the world. Working with libraries, publishers, and funders, Portico preserves e-journals,
e-books, and other electronic scholarly content to ensure researchers and students will have access to it in
the future.
The Archive
The Portico archive is a centralized repository of tens of thousands of e-journals, e-books, and other
electronic content, replicated to ensure security. Content comes into the archive under formal preservation
agreements with publishers. Content providers submit source files to Portico, and Portico repackages these
source files into an archival format and provides long-term archival management and format migration as
needed. Portico's approach is driven by commitment to meeting clear
preservation goals.
Depending on the delivery formats created by the publisher using these files, capturing source files enables
Portico to deliver both high-quality
HTML
and PDF versions of the content. Different than using a publisher's website, the exact look and feel of
the HTML rendition and publishers' value-added features such as e-commerce functions and personalization are
not included in the preserved version. A standard look and feel is applied.
Portico choses to create a "dark" archive to focus its efforts on securing and preserving large volumes of
content important to libraries and their users; however, it is not exclusively dark. Participating libraries
experience the archive as a "light" or accessible archive in two ways: auditing the archive to ensure we are
prepared to support eventual use and accessing of content that has been made available as the result of a
"trigger
event" or post-cancellation access claim.
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Trials
There are no trials available for Portico. However, you can
request
preview access so you can evaluate Portico's archiving service's ability to deliver a usable, authentic,
discoverable, and accessible content set when needed.
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Minitex Pricing
Libraries participating in Portico from the Minitex region receive a 5% reduction in their Annual Archive
Support payment. The Annual Archive Support payment is based on a library's total library materials expenditure.
Portico uses the definition of LME provided by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to determine
libraries' Annual Archive Support payments.
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License Agreements (Terms & Conditions)
All customers wishing to participate in Portico must complete the Portico Journal Archive License.
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How to Order or Renew
Orders and renewals, payment of the Annual Archive Support, are done directly through Portico. Determine
your Annual Archive Support Payment, and complete the license agreement. Send two signed originals (one
signed copy will be returned to you for your records) to:
Portico Outreach & Participation Services
149 Fifth Avenue
8th Floor
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 212-358-6415
Fax: 212-358-6499
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Technical Support
You may obtain help by using any of the following methods:
- Email: support@portico.org
- Telephone: 877-422-4022 (U.S.) or 734-887-7087
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Contact Us Form: Choose "Support" from the "Inquiry type" drop-down menu and fill in
the entries on Portico's Contact
Us webform.
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Statistics
There are no usage statistics available at this time.
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Minitex Contact
Cooperative Purchasing & Electronic Resources Services (CPERS)
Minitex
15 Andersen Library
222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0439
Toll Free: 800-462-5348
Phone: 612-624-4002
Fax: 612-625-3569
Email: cpers@minitex.umn.edu
Vendor Contact
Portico
Phone: 609-986-2276 (participation); 734-887-7087 (user support)
Toll Free: 877-422-4022
Email: participation@portico.org
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