Elsevier covers archiving with Portico deal

Scientific, technical and medical publishing giant Elsevier is creating a permanent archive for its e-journals in a deal with Portico, a specialist in electronic archiving. Elsevier will deposit over 2000 titles from ScienceDirect into the Portico archive.

Portico is the electronic journal archiving arm of JSTOR , the academic search service funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. A recent grant of $3m from the Library of Congress in the US gave Portico a vital shot in the arm to preserve digital journal content. The grant was part of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) program in the US.

Portico joins the National Library of the Netherlands as an Elseveir chosen archive provider. Over seven million individual Elsevier published articles will be deposited in the archive, with loading beginning in January 2006.

Elsevier is continuing its relationship with the National Library of the Netherlands , which has been archiving Dutch language imprints of e-journals since 1996, Portico is an additional third party partner, the publisher said in a statement.

In the last 12 months Elsevier has been focussing on its Scopus abstracting and indexing application ( see full details here ), which rivals ISI Web of Science from Thomson Scientific .

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