Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and Portico, part of the not-for-profit organization ITHAKA, announced today an agreement in which Portico will digitally preserve archival versions of a number of the Gale Digital Collections.
Portico preserves scholarly literature published in electronic form and ensures that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers and students. To date, more than 10,000 eJournal titles and 28,000 eBooks have been committed to the Portico archive. This agreement with Gale brings the first set of digitized historical collections including newspapers, legislative documents, pamphlets and more into the service.
The list of Gale Digital Collections preserved in the Portico archive will 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 and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
+ 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Portico will make the content available to Portico-supporting libraries and their users under specific defined circumstances called ‘trigger events,’ including for extended service interruptions or if the content is no longer available through the Gale system or from other sources. There is no charge from Gale for this service, but an institution must be a participant in Portico. Current fees for participation in Portico are outlined at http://www.portico.org/libraries/library_participation.html. Gale Digital Collection customers will still have the option of getting the archive in electronic format directly from Gale at no cost.
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