"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.
Kimberly Steinle
Library Relations Manager
Duke University Press
Duke University Press to Archive e-Books with Portico
- Wayne Shoaf
- Jan 27, 2009