1. Preservation in the Digital
Age—Ensuring Sustainable
Scholarship
AAUP Annual Meeting, June 24, 2014
Stephanie Orphan
Director of Publisher Relations, Portico

2. Portico is committed to the preservation of
scholarly literature published in electronic
form to ensure that these materials remain
accessible to future generations of scholars,
researchers, and students.

3. Portico’s Preservation Services
» E-Journal
(2005)
» E-Book
(2008)
» D-Collections
(2009)
Community Model
Publisher Supported

4. Why Preserve?
» Protection of the future of our scholarly heritage is a
public good
» Access to scholarly materials depends on their being fit
for use over time
» For both print and electronic materials, preservation is
necessary to ensure the long-term usability of scholarly
content

5. Preserving Scholarship
» Preservation combats loss due to deterioration or
disappearance
» Digital objects present additional concerns
» Format obsolescence
» Loss of funding = loss of sustainability

6. Shift from Print to Digital/
Shift in Philosophy
» Where does the preservation responsibility rest...content
owners, libraries, cultural institutions, publishers, third
parties . . .?
» Economies of scale through shared preservation
responsibility
» Trustworthy digital preservation solutions must be sought
and implemented for the benefit of the entire scholarly
community

7. Digital preservation is the series of
management policies and activities
necessary to ensure the enduring
usability
authenticity
discoverability
accessibility
of content over the very long-term.

8. » Reformatting from print to digital for access surrogates or
product line expansion
» Back-up or byte storage on various media
» Carried out within systems optimized for ongoing, daily
access
Digital Preservation is Not . . .

9. » Ulrich’s lists 45,301 “active” academic/scholarly journals
available online
» 9,053 are e-only (20%)
» Books—Project Muse: 28,000; Books@JSTOR: 27,000;
UPSO (Oxford): 15,000; UPO (Cambridge): 20,000
» Portico—
» 220,000+ e-books committed for preservation (from the
above and others—63 publishers)
» 18,000+ e-journals committed for preservation (211
publishers)
E-Content in 2014

10. » Publishers are creating more complex products
» Reference databases or other digital products based on print
volumes
» E-only taking advantage of new technologies
» New forms of scholarship emerging
» Requires preservation decisions regarding content type
and business model
» Basic tenets of preservation continue to apply
E-Content in 2014

11. Stephanie Orphan
Director of Publisher Relations, Portico
609-986-2226
stephanie.orphan@portico.org
www.portico.org
Thank you!