JSTOR will be taking part in the VALA 2022 library conference in Australia. John Lenahan, ITHAKA’s AVP of Published Content, will be presenting the paper “Publishing and global usage of open content on JSTOR and the understanding of data.” We encourage all VALA participants to attend this online session on June 14 at 12 noon AEST.
The paper looks at usage data for multiple content types that have been published on JSTOR and made available to users across… Read more»
EBSCO Discovery Service is the first to host JSTOR’s Open Community Collections
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) announces the availability of JSTOR Open Community Collections through EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). EDS users will gain access to a breadth of freely accessible primary source content including artwork, photographs, publications, recordings, and other artifacts from library collections around the world, strengthening the depth and quality of their research.
Open Community Collections enables institutions to host their special collections on the… Read more»
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) has made a group commitment to support the new Reveal Digital publishing program Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements. All 15 member libraries are participating in this agreement, which totals more than $500,000.
Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements is a three-year program that will bring libraries and archives together to develop, fund and digitize primary source collections on the histories of civil rights activism by the everyday citizens… Read more»
Reveal Digital is committed to making underrepresented perspectives from historical events visible to researchers everywhere. In partnership with libraries and archives, we have been uncovering these important primary sources, enabling innovative scholarship and a more complex understanding of the past.
Today, we are pleased to announce Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements, a new program to digitize the histories of civil rights activism by the everyday citizens of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian American/Pacific Islander communities.… Read more»
ITHAKA’s mission is to expand and enhance access to knowledge and education for people all over the world. As a not-for-profit organization, our aim is for our policies and decisions to maximize impact, not revenue or profit. At the onset of the pandemic in 2020, we promised that fees would not increase for JSTOR participants through 2023. We also introduced a year-long program that provided participating academic institutions with access to all Archive Collections at no additional cost. Since then,… Read more»
Lean Library, a Technology from SAGE company that delivers library services directly into the patron’s workflow, is collaborating with JSTOR. Together, they will provide libraries the ability to deliver Open Access and licensed content on JSTOR to patrons at their point of need, alongside search results on Google or Google Scholar.
The collaboration will begin by integrating JSTOR with the Lean Library browser extension, offering libraries the ability to deploy relevant content from their holdings alongside patron search results. The… Read more»
As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of ebooks on JSTOR, ITHAKA AVP of Published Content John Lenahan describes in Against the Grain the evolution of the program and how we have collaborated with the community to develop innovative, cost-effective models to increase access to academic books.
The article provides background on our collective efforts to increase access to monographs, discusses models to support the publishing of Open Access content, and shares our perspective on ensuring long-term… Read more»
JSTOR has partnered with TypeCite, a free citation tool that specializes in APA, MLA, and Harvard formats, to provide JSTOR users with metadata (title of journal, edition, number, pagination details, contributor details, etc.) when generating citations to academic journals.
TypeCite will analyze our metadata to generate the most accurate and complete citations for our users, saving them time and effort so they can focus on the tasks of writing and research. We hope you will find this free resource… Read more»
This month, the Open Community Collections initiative marks a new milestone with more than 700 contributed collections. With this achievement, we have announced the extension of the Charter period for all Community Collections participating institutions until December 31, 2022.
Spark unexpected discoveries705 collections from 180 contributors (and growing). The top ten most used collections cover a wide range of content types, disciplines, time periods, and geographic territories:… Read more»
ITHAKA and JSTOR will be taking part in the Charleston Conference this November 1-5. As a hybrid event, visitors can find us at booth 61 or virtually on the Charleston site. We will be discussing a number of topics for librarians, publishers, and resource managers including:… Read more»