Newswise — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry, has signed an agreement with Portico to enable the digital preservation of its extensive online journal collection. The agreement ensures that the more than 300 periodicals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), Adis International and Facts & Comparisons®, and provided to library customers via Ovid Technologies will be preserved so that online versions of these titles will be available for future scholars, researchers and students.
Publishers have entrusted thousands of titles to Portico for digital preservation. Access to all preserved content is granted to libraries supporting Portico if and when titles are no longer available from the publisher or any other source. This agreement assures that, regardless of the status of the publication, the archives will always be available to those libraries and their end users.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a leading international publisher for healthcare professionals and students with nearly 300 periodicals and 1,500 books in more than 100 disciplines publishing under the LWW brand, as well as content-based sites and online corporate and customer services. Adis International publishes peer-reviewed journals for the pharmaceutical industry, and Facts & Comparisons publishes reference materials for pharmacists. With the inclusion of the LWW, Adis and Facts & Comparisons titles, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of e-journals is available at www.portico.org/about/content_digitally_preserved_alpha.html.
About Wolters Kluwer Health Wolters Kluwer Health (Philadelphia, PA) is a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts & Comparisons®; electronic information providers, such as Ovid, UpToDate®, Medi-Span® and ProVation® Medical; and pharmaceutical information providers such as Adis International and Source®.
Wolters Kluwer Health is a division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal, and regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer had 2008 annual revenues of €3.4 billion ($4.9 billion), employs approximately 20,000 people worldwide, and maintains operations in over 35 countries across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its shares are quoted on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Visit www.wolterskluwer.com
About PorticoPortico (www.portico.org) preserves scholarly literature published in electronic form and ensures that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students. More than 14,300 e-journals and e-books have been promised to the Portico archive which is supported by nearly 500 libraries worldwide and 70 publishers representing hundreds of scholarly societies and associations. Portico is a part of Ithaka (www.ithaka.org),a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to advance scholarship and teaching in sustainable ways.
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