An Overview of Portico: An Electronic Archiving Service

Fenton, E. G.

doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2006.03.004

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“…Digital preservationists (Conway, 1999;Schonfeld & Fenton, 2005;Fenton, 2006) stress that libraries have, in essence, a moral obligation to make their collections more widely available, especially through electronic means.…”

Section: Evaluation Of the Archivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Photographic Archives for Environmental and Historical Studies: An Example from Ethiopia

Nyssen

Frankl

Munro³

et al. 2010

Scottish Geographical Journal

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The illustrative power of a set of repeat photographs is often stronger than that of\ud other scientific output, but historical photographs are also a very useful research tool and object.\ud Here we demonstrate how historical photographs in Ethiopia are used in studies on landscape and\ud land use changes, soil erosion and geomorphology, history and historical context, livelihood and\ud archaeology. Further, using the case study of Ethiopia, the location, accessibility and quality of\ud digital archives of historical photographs is discussed as well as the way in which they can be used\ud in research. Historical landscape photographs that are available in major archives may now\ud largely be traced and often obtained through the Internet, as libraries increasingly are digitising\ud collections and making them available online. Institutions that do not make at least part of their\ud collection available online see decreasing numbers of end users, as opposed to a majority of\ud archives which revaluate their collection by making it available online

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Section: Evaluation Of the Archivesmentioning

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Digital Photographic Archives for Environmental and Historical Studies: An Example from Ethiopia

Nyssen

Frankl

Munro³

et al. 2010

Scottish Geographical Journal

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“…"Born digital" materials require very different models, systems, and processes, therefore, in 2002, JSTOR launched a project which has now become Portico, a new, notfor-profit electronic archiving service established to address the scholarly community's critical need for a reliable means to preserve scholarly electronic journals. Portico is focused on preserving the intellectual content of electronic journals through source file normalization and format migration (Fenton, 2006). The charge of the initiative was to build an infrastructure and economic model able to sustain an electronic journal archive.…”

Section: Jstormentioning

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Preserving scientific electronic journals: a study of archiving initiatives

Moghaddam

2008

The Electronic Library

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This paper seeks to review the archiving initiatives of scientific journals created and supported by various organizations or institutions. A review of nine archiving initiatives including JSTOR, Portico, E-Print Repositories, Open Access Model, LOCKSS, OCLC Digital Archive, JISC PubMed Central and KB e-Depot was carried out. The paper focuses mainly on the initiatives by an analytical approach. The paper provides a useful starting-point to anyone who wants to know about the preserving scientific electronic journal, enabling him/her quickly to achieve an overview of the existing archiving initiatives to date.

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“…Not surprisingly, many university libraries have enthusiastically backed not-for-profit e-journal storage and perpetual archive initiatives such as JSTOR and Portico. [8] For many years academic libraries have been struggling to cope with declining collection development budgets. Even libraries with budgets remaining relatively static have experienced a rapid deterioration in available spending power as inflation and spiking journal costs (particularly in the scientific fields) have taken their toll in both electronic and print formats (that is, when the print versions still exist).…”

Section: Digital Library Collection Developmentmentioning

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Going Digital: The Transformation of Scholarly Communication and Academic Libraries

Dunlap

2008

Policy Futures in Education

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Not since the age of Gutenberg has an information upheaval so thoroughly disrupted the processes of scholarly knowledge creation, management and preservation as the digital revolution currently under way. Academic libraries have traditionally been structured to effectively facilitate the access, use and storage of mostly static, print-based research collections. In the midst of sweeping change university libraries are attempting to re-imagine services, embrace emerging technologies, reallocate resources and provide proactive leadership in a new digital knowledge society. This article provides both historical perspective and a forward-looking examination into how academic libraries are transforming themselves to both cope with, and help shape, unprecedented transitions in scholarly research and communication.ISAAC HUNTER DUNLAP writes and speaks frequently on the topics of database-driven web development, web accessibility, Open Source software, library digitization initiatives and related areas. An experienced web developer, he has created numerous websites, web database applications and digital library collections over the last decade. He is the author of Open Source

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An Overview of Portico: An Electronic Archiving Service

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Digital Photographic Archives for Environmental and Historical Studies: An Example from Ethiopia

Digital Photographic Archives for Environmental and Historical Studies: An Example from Ethiopia

Preserving scientific electronic journals: a study of archiving initiatives

Going Digital: The Transformation of Scholarly Communication and Academic Libraries

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