Gale Commits Three More Collections to the Portico Archive
The Farmington Hills-based Gale business of Cengage Learning announced that it would be preserving three more digital historical collections with Portico, an electronic archiving initiative of Ithaka, a New York City-based nonprofit that helps the academic community take full advantage of rapidly advancing information and networking technologies.
This follows the earlier preservation of 10 Gale Digital Collections -- including 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, The Making of Modern Law: Primary Resources and Eighteenth Century Collections Online -- and represents more than 80 million files and 75 million pages of content, which doubled the size of the Portico archive in just one year.
Said Frank Menchaca, executive vice president and publisher, Gale: "With more and more content moving online and being produced in digital-only format, we realize the importance of ensuring our unparalleled content and collections will remain accessible to our customers even in the unlikely event of a service disruption."
The three additional Gale collections being committed to the Portico archive comprise more than a million files, and include Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author Online and Literature Criticism Online. With the addition of these collections, the total number of files being preserved from Gale in the Portico archive will reach more than 82 million.
Collections preserved in 2010 include:
* Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and ECCO Part II, New Editions
* The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises
* The Making of Modern Law: Trials
* The Making of Modern Law: Supreme Court Records and Briefs
* Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature
* Sabin Americana
* 19th Century British Library Newspapers
* 17th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
* 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
* 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
"Portico's successful ingest of the first 10 collections, totaling over 11 terabytes, is a great accomplishment in our history," said Eileen Fenton, Portico managing director. "It represents the progress we have made in the scalability of our workflow. We are delighted to continue this work with Gale to ensure the long term preservation and permanent access of this vital content for its customers."
In accordance with Portico's D-Collections Service model, Portico will make the content available to Gale's customers under specifically defined circumstances called "trigger events." Should the content no longer be made available through the Gale system or from other sources, or if Gale were to experience an extended service interruption, Portico would make the content preserved in the archive available to Gale's customers. There is no charge from Gale to its customers for this service.
To celebrate the preservation of these collections, Gale and Portico will host a reception in the Gale booth at the Association for College and Research Libraries conference in Philadelphia on the evening of March 30.
Cengage Learning provides teaching, learning and research products and services for cademic, professional and library markets worldwide. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.com.
Portico is a not-for-profit community-driven digital preservation service for e-books, e-journals, and other scholarly e-content. To date, more than 12,000 e-journals, nearly 70,000 e-books, and 39 collections have been committed to the archive. Portico is supported by more than 700 libraries worldwide and more than 120 publishers representing more than 2,000 scholarly societies and associations. Portico is part of Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. Ithaka is based in New York City and has offices in Ann Arbor and Princeton, N.J. For more information, visit www.portico.org or www.ithaka.org.
