Portico Supports First Trigger Event

/Graft: Organ and Cell Transplantation/, published by SAGE Publications from January 2001 to March 2003, will be removed from SAGE's online offering at the end of this year creating the first ever trigger event for the Portico archive and Portico's participating publishers and
libraries.

Because SAGE Publications, a leading international publisher of electronic media, journals and books, has ensured that /Graft/ is preserved in the Portico archive and because /Graft/ will not be offered by any other commercial online source, Portico will "light up" this portion of the Portico archive and provide access to literature that otherwise would be lost to the scholarly community. Through this first trigger event Portico demonstrates how publishers, archives, and libraries can cooperatively provide a permanent archive of scholarly literature published in electronic form and avoid a permanent gap in the scholarly record.

On December 3, 2007, Portico will make /Graft/ available to its library participants via the Portico website and access via SAGE will end December 31, 2007. In the coming days, Portico will forward to its library participants instructions for accessing /Graft/.