Portico Membership for NUI Galway

Thanks to IReL, the James Hardiman Library is now a member of Portico - a service that provides a permanent archive of scholarly literature published in electronic form.

Portico is what is called a dark archive – it archives all e-journals of participating publishers and commits to preserve and maintain this archive for future generations. Portico members are provided with access to these e-journal archives only in particular circumstances, including:

• the publisher going out of business,
• the publisher ceasing to publish a title,
• fatal errors on the publishers own server, or
• the publisher ceasing to provide access to back issues.

Portico is the method that some publishers use to offer permanent access to purchased material after a subscriber cancels their subscription.

Through our membership of Portico we are helping to ensure the future accessibility and preservation of knowledge published in e-journals and are securing our users' long-term access to valuable research content.

Two trigger events have occurred already and we have access to the archive of two titles on Portico – Auto/Biography and Graft.

Links to these titles can be found in the Library's catalogue.

If you would like to know about Portico please visit: http://www.portico.org.