Eileen Fenton of the nonprofit electronic archiving service Portico will discuss the social and technical challenges concerning the archiving of electronic journals and other scholarly resources. For more than a decade, scholarly publishers have been creating electronic journals in response to demands from libraries and scholars for innovative information resources. Even as these electronic resources have become a significant part of the scholarly record upon which future students and researchers must rely, it has remained unclear precisely how these resources will be preserved for the long term.

Portico is building upon extensive input gathered from commercial and not-for-profit publishers and libraries to develop a sustainable technical infrastructure and an economically sustainable business model for a continuing archiving service for scholarly resources published in electronic form, beginning with electronic scholarly journals.

Portico (www.portico.org) began as the Electronic-Archiving Initiative in 2002 and was launched as Portico in 2005 with initial support provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR and the Library of Congress.

Gordon Tibbitts (Blackwell ) and Victoria Reich (LOCKSS/CLOCKSS) will present the LOCKSS/CLOCKSS program. Victoria will compare and contrast LOCKSS and CLOCKSS.

Librarians are using LOCKSS to build local library collections and stop the cycle of continual payment for access to materials. LOCKSS participants believe libraries are an important society memory organization.

CLOCKSS, a not for profit community partnership among publishers and libraries, is building a comprehensive, trusted, distributed archive which will protect online scholarly content from catastrophic events and other long-term interruptions. Core values of CLOCKSS (Controlled-LOCKSS) include leveraging the institutional stewardship role libraries have collectively played for the printed format—to preserve digital content for the world wide research community now and into the future; and making content freely available to all after a trigger event.

Eileen Fenton is Executive Director of Portico, an electronic-journal archiving service which has been launched with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR, and Ithaka. Previously Eileen was Director of Production at JSTOR, and she has also worked at the Vanderbilt and Yale University libraries. Eileen has earned a Masters of Science in Information from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Kentucky.

Victoria Reich is Director and co-founder of the LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries and a key participant in the CLOCKSS initiative. Prior to the LOCKSS Program, she was, for eight years, the Assistant Director of HighWire Press. Vicky works to facilitate the industry's transition from print to online publishing models. She has over 20 years of extensive library experience in both public and technical services and has held positions at the: Upjohn Company; University of Michigan; Library of Congress; National Agricultural Library; and Stanford University. She earned her MLS from the University of Michigan.

Gordon C. Tibbitts III, President, Blackwell Publishing Inc. Since joining Blackwell Publishing in 2000, Mr. Tibbitts has led the U.S. operations through significant changes, including the 2001 merger of Blackwell Science and Blackwell Publishers. At Blackwell, he has spearheaded the development of many corporate technology initiatives, including web-based content development. Mr. Tibbitts has held executive positions with Aster Publishing, Advanstar, and the Thomson Corporation. For over 20 years, Mr. Tibbitts has effectively integrated modern electronic publishing technology into traditional publishing businesses. In addition, he is a member of the Association of American Publishers, Professional Scholarly Publishing, and crossref.org. Mr. Tibbitts received a BS degree in Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Oregon.