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<section class="article-content"> <div class="article-body"> <p>Portico’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/our-work/preservation-approach/">preservation approach and policies</a> are composed with advice and guidance from the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/our-work/community-involvement/">publishing and library communities</a>.</p> <p>This spirit of global collaboration, transparency, and commitment has made us one of the leading digital preservation services in the world. A growing number of libraries participate in Portico as part of their digital preservation strategy, and we enjoy widespread support among the scholarly publishing community. Here’s why:</p> <h2>Organizational sustainability</h2> <p>Portico has a diversified funding stream from <a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/coverage/libraries/">more than 1,000 libraries</a> and <a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/coverage/publishers/">hundreds of publishers</a> (representing over 2,000 societies and associations) and a commitment to good business practices with short- and long-term financial planning, including annual financial audits.</p> <h2>Best practices</h2> <p>Our content model and processes are informed by a number of community standards, including:</p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/">Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS)</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1430715/">Digital Item Declaration Language (DIDL – a part of the MPEG-21 standard)</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf">Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)</a>.</li> </ul> <p>Portico was the first digital preservation service to be independently audited by the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://www.crl.edu/">Center for Research Libraries (CRL)</a> and certified as a trusted, reliable digital preservation solution that serves the needs of the library community (following the general metrics found in their <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/digital-archives/metrics-assessing-and-certifying">Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification</a>). The stated purpose of the CRL audit was to promote understanding of and, where justified, confidence in, digital repositories. <a class="more" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/digital-archives/certification-and-assessment-digital-repositories/portico" rel="external">Read the final audit report</a></p> <h2>Relationships</h2> <p>We believe that collaborative development is a keystone of success. Portico consults regularly with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://www.kb.nl/index-en.html">Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands – KB)</a>, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://www.loc.gov/">Library of Congress</a>, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://www.bl.uk/">British Library</a>, and other members of the digital preservation community. We are a contributor to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://openpreservation.org/">Open Preservation Foundation</a> and served as a partner in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-funded <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://rmap-project.info/rmap/">RMap Project</a>. We collaborated with other organizations on the development of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/">PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) data dictionary</a> and work closely with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://www.niso.org/">National Information Standards Organization (NISO)</a> on the development and maintenance of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/">Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite</a> and others. We work with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/https://www.chorusaccess.org/">CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States)</a> to support the preservation requirements of the policy memorandum released in February 2013 by the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). We are also active members of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://www.dpconline.org/">Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)</a> and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://ndsa.org/">National Digital Stewardship Alliance</a>.</p> <h2>Clear legal rights</h2> <p>Portico has license agreements with the publishers that allow us to preserve the content for the long-term (including migrating or transforming the content as necessary) and deliver the content should specific <a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/coverage/triggered-content/">trigger events</a> occur. Portico license agreements also grant us the right to name a successor not-for-profit organization.</p> <h2>Access rights</h2> <p>Titles preserved within Portico become broadly available for use to the faculty, staff, and students at participating institutions when specific <a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/coverage/triggered-content/">trigger events</a> occur. We can also provide <a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/for-participants/#pca">post-cancellation access </a>(also referred to as perpetual access) to titles for which the publisher has selected Portico as the provider.</p> <h2>Transparency</h2> <p>We aim for transparency in our actions and content. Portico provides participating libraries and publishers with accounts to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://audit.portico.org/">audit or review content in the archive</a> as they deem necessary.</p> <p><a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/coverage/titles/">A list of the holdings</a> currently preserved in the Portico archive and those scheduled to be processed is available.</p> <p>We offer a <a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/coverage/request-holdings-comparison/">holdings comparison service</a> that allows libraries to identify overlap between their holdings and ours. And we support the work of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/https://thekeepers.org/">The Keepers Registry</a> to build an e-journals preservation registry service.</p> <p>We have also committed to ongoing preservation audits by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://www.crl.edu/reports/portico-audit-report-2010">the Center for Research Libraries</a> and provide regular updates to the library and publisher communities about the status of content preserved in Portico.</p> <h2><b>Expertise</b></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The <a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/our-staff/">Portico leadership group</a> is highly active in the <a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/our-work/community-involvement/">preservation field</a> and its members participate in <a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/presentations/">new research, standards, and technologies</a>.</span></p> </div> </section> </article> </div> </div> <aside class="sidebar-right medium-4 small-12 columns"> <div class=" " data-sc="content:module"> <div class="callout featured po-module module-id-2615 media-object stack lighter-gray module-no-date" data-equalizer-watch="" data-sc-name="step-by-step"> <h2 class="module-title">Our process</h2> <p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2618" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426im_/https://www.portico.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/p-content-mod.png" alt="" width="250" height="169"/></p> <p>Discover Portico’s step-by-step process for ensuring the long-term preservation of e-journals, e-books, and digital collections.</p> <a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/our-work/preservation-step-step/" class="button" data-sc="but click:module:cta" data-category="modules" data-action="cta - step-by-step">Learn more</a> </div> </div>   </aside> </div> </main> <footer class="footer" aria-label="footer"> <div class="row"> <div class="small-12 columns"> <h4 class="h2 heading mb1">Portico</h4> </div> </div> <div class="row bottom-section"> <div class="small-12 medium-6 columns"> <div class="row"> <div class="columns large-4"> <ul class="no-bullet compact-bottom"> <li><a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/why-portico/">Why Portico</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/our-work/">Our work</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/coverage/">Coverage</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/join/">Join</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/news/">News</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="columns large-4"> <ul class="no-bullet compact-bottom"> <li><a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/for-participants/">For participants</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/preservation-policies/">Preservation policies</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/http://audit.portico.org/">Auditor login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="columns large-4"> <ul class="no-bullet compact-bottom"> <li><a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/our-staff/">Our staff</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/governance/">Governance</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20201128025426/https://www.portico.org/contact-us/">Contact us</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/https://www.ithaka.org/careers/">Careers</a></li> </ul> </div> </div></div> <div class="small-12 medium-6 columns"> <ul class="no-bullet list-horizontal social-icons compact-bottom"> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/https://twitter.com/Portico_Digital" class="icon-link"> <span class="show-for-sr">Twitter</span> <i class="fi-social-twitter"></i> </a> </li> </ul> <p> <small> The Portico digital preservation service is part of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201128025426/https://www.ithaka.org/">ITHAKA</a>, 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. </small> </p> <p class="compact-bottom"> <small> ©2005-2020. 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