Current Scholarship Program
In 2010 JSTOR expanded its vast collection of archival content to include the most recent issues of academic journals. Through the aptly named Current Scholarship Program, publishers may distribute current scholarship and increase visibility, libraries may further consolidate holdings and save money, and scholars may access the full runs–archival and current issues–of academic journals on an integrated, powerful, convenient, affordable digital platform.
The Current Scholarship Program was a direct response to the needs of the communities we serve, and supports our mission to advance fair and sustainable models that promote the widest possible disseminations of scholarly research and preserve publishing diversity.
Current Scholarship Program benefits
- Enhance evidence-based collection management via JSTOR’s COUNTER-compliant usage statistics for the full run of a title.
- Access up to 214 current titles from 30 publishers across a wide range of disciplines.
- Ensure long term digital preservation and post-cancellation access of your journal subscriptions: All titles in the Current Scholarship Program are preserved in Portico, ITHAKA’s digital preservation service.
- Save money through flexible and discounted subscription options.
- Fuel discovery and expand usage of academic content: Journals in the Current Scholarship Program saw an average of 119% increase in usage for 2011, as compared to usage on their previous platforms.*
- Order subscriptions directly through JSTOR or an agent.
- Maintain a single license and point of purchase across many publishers and titles.
- Link current journals in the CSP program with your JSTOR Archive Collection holdings, providing full run access from volume 1, issue 1 through the current issue.
*Analysis based on COUNTER Journal Report 1 (R3) measuring the number of successful full-text article requests for current subscriptions by month and journal, comparing usage on former platforms from Jan-Oct 2010 to usage on the JSTOR platform from Jan-Oct 2011.