RE: Elsevier and Portico Sign Archive Partnership

["Mcsean, Tony (ELS)" <T.Mcsean@elsevier.com>]

Dear Steve,

Thanks for your good wishes.

The financial details are confidential, for reasons I'm sure you will 
understand.

The agreement with Portico is in parallel to our agreement with the Royal 
Dutch Library.  It has been an important part of our archiving strategy to
maximise relience and part of this is achieved by having parallel 
strategies in place.  We also, of course, have very thorough internal 
archiving and back-up procedures in place.

Tony

Tony McSean
Director of Library Relations
Elsevier
+44 7795 960516
+44 20 7611 4413

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hitchcock [mailto:sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk]
Sent: 22 December 2005 09:56
To: Mcsean, Tony (ELS); liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Elsevier and Portico Sign Archive Partnership

Tony, I'm sure many will be reassured about plans to preserve the digital
versions of journals. Since long-term archiving is as much an
organisational and management issue as a technical issue, I have a few
questions about the sustainability of the partnership:

1 What are the costs of this arrangement for a) Elsevier b) Portico?
2 What does Portico offer that the arrangement with KB does not?
3 The answer to 2 may influence this - what is the business model for the
partnership with Portico?

Steve Hitchcock Preserv Project Manager
IAM Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
Email:  sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://preserv.eprints.org/

At 03:05 22/12/2005, you wrote:
>Subject: Elsevier and Portico  Sign Archive Partnership
>Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:05:22 EST
>Sender: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
>
>Elsevier has announced that Portico, a nonprofit electronic archiving=20
>service, will be an official e-journal archive for the company. The=20
>partnership with Portico will ensure that the over 2,100 current and=20
>formerly published journals on Elsevier's ScienceDirect service are=20
>preserved in a permanent archive for posterity.

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