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Current Scholarship Program Today’s scholarship is coming to JSTOR

Current Scholarship Program Today’s scholarship is coming to JSTOR. Mary Rose Muccie Director, Current Journals Program JSTOR maryrose.muccie@ithaka.org. Current Scholarship Program Defined.

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Current Scholarship Program Today’s scholarship is coming to JSTOR

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  1. Current Scholarship Program Today’s scholarship is coming to JSTOR Mary Rose Muccie Director, Current Journals Program JSTOR maryrose.muccie@ithaka.org

  2. Current Scholarship Program Defined • JSTOR partnering with many publishers to include current journal issues on a redesigned JSTOR platform • Key differences from JSTOR back issues • Publishers set the price for current issues • Publisher, society, journal branding stronger (but no silos) • Titles licensed individually and in collections • Shared principles are paramount • Part of and serve the scholarly community • Committed to fair and sustainable models to support the widest possible dissemination of research • Efficient, great experience for researchers • Program may include other types of content in the longer term

  3. Motivating Factors • Constituent Demand • Libraries – 2006 survey • Faculty and users – Faculty surveys in ’00, ’03, ’06, and ’09 • Publishers • Value of Scale • Technology economies • Interdisciplinary content aggregation for libraries and users • Response to Environment • Desire to maintain diverse publishing community • Drive to enhance user research efficiency • Mission Imperative • Leverage community investment in JSTOR to build for tomorrow

  4. 2011 Publishers

  5. Platform Changes for JSTOR

  6. Offering to Libraries • Publishers set the prices for current journal issues to achieve the widest possible access to research in sustainable ways • Flexibility and choice • Titles can be licensed individually as current issues only or bundled with back issues for a full run • Current issues defined as going back to the year a title was first available online outside of an aggregation. • Libraries will not lose content, nor pay again for content purchased previously. • Titles can also be purchased in defined or custom collections • Order current issues directly with JSTOR or through your subscription agent • Single license for both current and back issues • Long-term preservation and post-cancellation access • All current journals preserved in Portico • Post-cancellation access offered

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