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2020</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/new-jisc-and-jstor-collaboration/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Free access to digital collections through new Jisc and JSTOR collaboration</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>Well-known education platform brings together digital content from across UK institutions for researchers, teaching staff and students</p> <p>Not-for-profit <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://ithaka.org/">ITHAKA</a>, JSTOR’s parent organization, and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.jisc.ac.uk/">UK education and technology not-for-profit Jisc</a> have agreed to a pioneering initiative that will allow institutions to make their digital special collections freely available to millions of researchers, faculties, and students around the globe.</p> <p>The partnership gives UK higher education institutions the opportunity to add their digitized content to JSTOR’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/open-community-collections/">Open Community Collections</a>… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/new-jisc-and-jstor-collaboration/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/open-access/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Open Access</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-9586"> <div class="meta date">September 23, 2020</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstors-ebook-program-adds-three-new-publishers/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">JSTOR’s ebook program adds three new publishers</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/">Books at JSTOR</a> program has grown to more than 90,000 titles from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.jstor.org/librarians/products/books/publishers/">279 scholarly publishers</a>. We’re delighted to announce that three additional leading presses have recently joined the program:… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstors-ebook-program-adds-three-new-publishers/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/books/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Books</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-9273"> <div class="meta date">August 20, 2020</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-dda-now-available-through-gobi/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">JSTOR DDA now available through GOBI</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>JSTOR’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/librarians/products/books/acquisition-models/demand-driven-acquisition/">Demand-Driven Acquisition program</a> is now available through <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.ebsco.com/academic-libraries/products/gobi-library-solutions">GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO</a>, helping libraries streamline their ebook acquisition workflows. GOBI’s multi-vendor DDA service prevents content gaps by cascading the DDA option to an available platform based on the library’s preferences. It provides trusted technical services, deduplication, and collection development support.</p> <p>JSTOR’s <a href="/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/">ebook program</a> offers 90,000 high-quality titles from scholarly publishers. Our unlimited-user, DRM-free access model and seamless integration with journals and primary sources provides an easy… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-dda-now-available-through-gobi/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/books/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Books</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-8822"> <div class="meta date">July 15, 2020</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-offers-4-million-fee-relief-for-libraries-and-guarantees-revenue-for-publishers-holds-pricing-flat-through-2023/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">JSTOR offers $4 million fee relief for libraries and guarantees revenue for publishers; holds pricing flat through 2023</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>Dear colleagues,</p> <p>As education institutions around the world continue to grapple with the momentous impact of COVID-19, libraries and publishers must cut budgets while continuing to support the needs of students, researchers, and their colleagues. We have talked with many of you about your needs, and we appreciate that JSTOR and Artstor are more important than ever to your communities.</p> <p>When the pandemic forced institutions to stop residential learning abruptly last spring, we worked with our publishers to execute a… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-offers-4-million-fee-relief-for-libraries-and-guarantees-revenue-for-publishers-holds-pricing-flat-through-2023/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/books/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Books</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/journals/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Journals</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/libraries/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Libraries</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/publishers/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Publishers</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-8731"> <div class="meta date">June 30, 2020</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/gobi-library-solutions-from-ebsco-partners-with-books-at-jstor-on-demand-driven-acquisition/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO partners with Books at JSTOR on Demand-Driven Acquisition</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news">New offering provides libraries more choice to acquire and manage DDA programs via preferred workflow solution <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.ebsco.com/products/gobi-library-solutions">GOBI<b>®</b> Library Solutions from EBSCO</a> is providing choice for libraries by extending its Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) services to include <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/">Books at JSTOR</a>. This arrangement offers libraries more options to acquire and manage their DDA program via their preferred workflow solution.</p> <p>JSTOR’s e-book program offers nearly 90,000 DRM-free, unlimited-access titles that are easy to discover and use alongside journals on its highly… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/gobi-library-solutions-from-ebsco-partners-with-books-at-jstor-on-demand-driven-acquisition/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/books/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Books</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-8450"> <div class="meta date">June 17, 2020</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/covid-19-expanded-access-extended-to-32000-books/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">COVID-19 expanded access extended to 32,000 books</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>After seeing high usage and a positive response from end users, libraries, and the publishing community, JSTOR’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/expanded-access-to-jstor-during-covid-19-crisis/">temporary free access to a set of 38,000 ebooks</a> in response to the COVID-19 crisis is being extended past its original end date of June 30. Forty-eight publishers have generously agreed to continue offering <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/covid19/expanded-access-to-ebooks/">free access to more than 32,000 titles</a> to participating academic institutions and secondary schools through August 31, 2020.… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/covid-19-expanded-access-extended-to-32000-books/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/books/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Books</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-8127"> <div class="meta date">May 27, 2020</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/expanded-access-to-jstor-archive-extended-through-2020-a-letter-from-kevin-guthrie/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Expanded Access to JSTOR archive extended through 2020: a letter from Kevin Guthrie</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>Dear colleagues,</p> <p>On March 18th, working in collaboration with JSTOR’s publishing partners, we announced a set of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/expanded-access-to-jstor-during-covid-19-crisis/">expanded access offerings</a> to support libraries, faculty, and students making the emergency shift to remote instruction and research. In the nine weeks since launching the program, there have been more than 10 million accesses to that content. We are inspired by the impact of the initiative and are motivated by the many messages of support we have received from publishers, librarians, and… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/expanded-access-to-jstor-archive-extended-through-2020-a-letter-from-kevin-guthrie/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/accessibility/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Accessibility</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/journals/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Journals</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/open-access/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Open Access</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/primary-sources/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Primary Sources</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/thematic-collections/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Thematic Collections</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-7632"> <div class="meta date">April 15, 2020</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/expanded-access-to-jstor-during-covid-19-crisis/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Expanded access to JSTOR during COVID-19 crisis</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>We are continuing to expand access to JSTOR for students, faculty, and institutions impacted by COVID-19. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/covid19/">Access to all these resources</a> will be available through June 30, 2020:… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/expanded-access-to-jstor-during-covid-19-crisis/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/accessibility/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Accessibility</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/books/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Books</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/journals/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Journals</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/open-access/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Open Access</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-7449"> <div class="meta date">April 9, 2020</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/transition-in-jstor-leadership-a-letter-from-laura-brown/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Transition in JSTOR leadership: a letter from Laura Brown</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>Dear friends and colleagues,</p> <p>I’m writing to share some personal news with you, and all of JSTOR’s participating libraries and publishers. I’ve made the decision to retire from my role as Managing Director of JSTOR and will be stepping into a new part-time role as Senior Advisor for ITHAKA this month.</p> <p>I have had a wonderful career in publishing, and over the past 40 years have been fortunate to help lead two great organizations – Oxford University Press USA and… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/transition-in-jstor-leadership-a-letter-from-laura-brown/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/ithaka/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">ITHAKA</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-6516"> <div class="meta date">January 7, 2020</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstors-lives-of-literature-at-mla/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">JSTOR’S Lives of Literature at MLA</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p><a href="/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/lives-of-literature/"></a></p> A letter from one of our editors <p>Good news: Just in time for our participation in the <a href="/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/events/jstor-mla-2020/">Modern Language Association conference</a>, we’re making <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/l/free-lives-of-lit-fac/">Lives of Literature</a> free through January and February to all! You can browse, read, and download articles from all 69 journals currently available in the collection.</p> <p>We’re looking forward to the conference — we’ve been loving <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2020/2020-Presidential-Theme">this interview</a> by Simon Gakandi, president of the Modern Language Association, about this year’s theme, Being… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstors-lives-of-literature-at-mla/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/journals/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Journals</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-6367"> <div class="meta date">December 20, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/the-impact-of-open-access-latin-american-scholarship/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">The impact of Open Access Latin American scholarship</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>In 2018, JSTOR received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the digitization of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/open-access-books-from-colmex/">680 out-of-print titles</a> from El Colegio de México Press and the dissemination of those titles on an openly accessible basis.</p> <p>In <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/The-Impact-of-Open-Access-Latin-American-Scholarship.pdf">a new white paper</a>, we document the significance of this work, the process used to select and digitize titles, and what we’ve learned about the usage of this collection. We hope this will benefit other initiatives interested in increasing access… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/the-impact-of-open-access-latin-american-scholarship/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/books/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Books</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/open-access/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Open Access</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-6144"> <div class="meta date">October 22, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/open-access-latin-american-monograph-project-announced/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Open Access pilot for Latin American monographs</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news">LARRP, CLACSO, JSTOR, and García Cambeiro launch pilot <p>A partnership led by the Latin American Research Resources Project (LARRP) in collaboration with the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), JSTOR, and Latin American bookseller García Cambeiro is working toward introducing a sustainable Open Access model for monographs to be developed and supported by the library community. This project is funded by the following LARRP member libraries: NYU, Columbia University, the New York Public Library, Harvard University, Princeton University, the… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/open-access-latin-american-monograph-project-announced/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/books/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Books</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/open-access/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Open Access</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/publishers/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Publishers</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-6038"> <div class="meta date">October 16, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/crl-and-jstor-make-saoa-openly-available/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Center for Research Libraries and JSTOR partner to make South Asian historical materials openly available online</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>JSTOR and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) are pleased to announce that collections from the South Asia Open Archives are now openly available on JSTOR, at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/http://saoa.crl.edu/">saoa.crl.edu</a>.</p> <p>The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) is a rich and growing collection of historical and contemporary sources in the arts, humanities and social sciences from and about South Asia. SAOA has been made possible through a collaborative grassroots initiative of US research libraries and partners from South Asia and has grown… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/crl-and-jstor-make-saoa-openly-available/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/journals/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Journals</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/open-access/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Open Access</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/primary-sources/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Primary Sources</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5955"> <div class="meta date">September 25, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-and-ithaka-at-charleston-conference/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">JSTOR and ITHAKA at Charleston Conference</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>The banner for this year’s Charleston Library Conference schedule features an illustration of Lewis Carroll’s poem “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43914/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter-56d222cbc80a9">The Walrus and the Carpenter</a>” with the quote “The time has come to talk of many things” — and indeed, for ITHAKA it has. Representatives of JSTOR, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.portico.org/">Portico</a>, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://sr.ithaka.org/">Ithaka S+R</a> are taking part in approximately a dozen presentations and panels on collections, innovations, ethics, and more; a full list is below. We also invite you to visit us at table… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-and-ithaka-at-charleston-conference/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/ithaka/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">ITHAKA</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5862"> <div class="meta date">September 18, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/brigitte-weinsteiger-joins-jstors-library-advisory-group/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Brigitte Weinsteiger joins JSTOR’s Library Advisory Group</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>Brigitte Weinsteiger, associate university librarian for collections at the University of Pennsylvania, has joined <a href="/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/library-advisory-group/">JSTOR’s Library Advisory Group</a>. The group is composed of leading librarians from around the globe and provides JSTOR with guidance on strategic questions and decisions.</p> <p>As associate university librarian for collections, Brigitte Weinsteiger leads the Collections, Preservation, Acquisitions, Access, and Licensing, and Academic Engagement and Community Outreach departments of the Penn Libraries. Brigitte also represents Penn on various committees and councils, including the Ivy Plus… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/brigitte-weinsteiger-joins-jstors-library-advisory-group/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/libraries/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Libraries</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5800"> <div class="meta date">August 27, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/rebecca-seger-joins-ithaka-as-vp-of-institutional-participation-and-strategic-partnerships/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Rebecca Seger joins ITHAKA as VP of Institutional Participation and Strategic Partnerships</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>Rebecca Seger joins ITHAKA as Vice President, Institutional Participation and Strategic Partnerships beginning September 30.</p> <p>Rebecca steps into the position previously held by Bruce Heterick, who has taken on a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/bruce-heterick-named-senior-vp-of-open-collections-infrastructure/">new role as SVP, Open Collections & Infrastructure</a>. Rebecca will lead global library outreach for JSTOR, Artstor, and Portico, and will work to expand access and deliver high-quality products that meet the needs of our constituents.</p> <p>Rebecca is well known in the community, with more than three decades of… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/rebecca-seger-joins-ithaka-as-vp-of-institutional-participation-and-strategic-partnerships/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/ithaka/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">ITHAKA</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5765"> <div class="meta date">August 15, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/new-white-paper-on-digitization-of-arabic-language-materials/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">New: white paper on digitization of Arabic-language materials</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>In 2017, JSTOR received <a href="/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/neh-highlights-jstors-arabic-language-digitization-project/">a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities</a> to study processes for digitizing Arabic-language scholarly content. Our goal was to develop a workflow for scanning Arabic journals that is cost-efficient, feasible to implement at scale, and able to produce high-quality images, metadata, and fully searchable text.</p> <p>In a recently released white paper, “<a href="/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/NehAward_PW-253861-17_JstorArabicDigitizationInvestigation_WhitePaper_20190329.pdf">Digitizing printed Arabic journals: is a scalable solution possible?</a>,” ITHAKA’s Anne Ray, Senior Licensing Editor, and John Kiplinger, Director of Production,… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/new-white-paper-on-digitization-of-arabic-language-materials/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/journals/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Journals</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5742"> <div class="meta date">August 5, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/an-expanded-view-of-mlk-in-jstor-labs-interview-archive/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">An expanded view of MLK in JSTOR Labs’ Interview Archive</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>To make <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/king-in-the-wilderness">King in the Wilderness</a>, an HBO documentary about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final three years, documentarian Peter Kunhardt recorded more than 31 hours of interviews with 19 people who witnessed and made history with King, only a tiny fraction of which made it into the film. In response, JSTOR Labs created <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://labs.jstor.org/interview/mlk/">the Interview Archive</a>, a prototype project that includes all the uncut interviews with Civil Rights leaders such Marian Wright Edelman, John Lewis, and Harry Belafonte.… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/an-expanded-view-of-mlk-in-jstor-labs-interview-archive/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/jstor-labs/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">JSTOR Labs</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5701"> <div class="meta date">July 19, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/bruce-heterick-named-senior-vp-of-open-collections-infrastructure/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Bruce Heterick named Senior VP of Open Collections & Infrastructure</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>Bruce Heterick, ITHAKA Vice President of Institutional Participation and Strategic Partnerships, has been named <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.ithaka.org/people/bruce-heterick">Senior Vice President, Open Collections & Infrastructure</a>.</p> <p>In his new role, Bruce will lead our efforts to work with libraries and consortia to accelerate the availability and utility of openly accessible collections by enabling them to digitize, upload, catalogue, publish, and preserve their materials on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.jstor.org/">JSTOR platform</a>. Our goal is to help libraries leverage the community-wide investment in JSTOR by placing their own… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/bruce-heterick-named-senior-vp-of-open-collections-infrastructure/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/ithaka/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">ITHAKA</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5655"> <div class="meta date">July 3, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/take-our-2-minute-webinar-survey/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Take our 2-minute webinar survey!</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>We are working on refreshing our educational webinars for upcoming classes and we’d love to know what kind of content would be most helpful to get your students and faculty off and running.</p> <p><a class="button" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JSTORwebinars">Take the survey</a>… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/take-our-2-minute-webinar-survey/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/platform-updates/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Platform Updates</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5618"> <div class="meta date">June 12, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/68000-additional-free-articles-added-to-early-journal-content/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">68,000 additional free articles added to Early Journal Content</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>In September 2011, JSTOR introduced Early Journal Content, 500,000 publicly available articles published in the United States before 1924 and before 1876 in other countries. Following the initial release, as we added journals to JSTOR with issues from that time period, we included the eligible content in EJC, and over time it grew to 595,000 articles.</p> <p>In May of this year, we expanded the eligibility dates to pre-1924 and pre-1876, and the EJC now includes an additional 68,000 items for… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/68000-additional-free-articles-added-to-early-journal-content/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/accessibility/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Accessibility</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/journals/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Journals</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5606"> <div class="meta date">June 5, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/new-on-jstor-full-screen-view/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">New on JSTOR: full-screen view</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>Good news: You can now read articles on JSTOR in full-screen view! Simply click the “View Full Screen” option to make use of the entire browser area.</p> <p></p> <p>Once in full-screen mode, you can zoom in and navigate to next and previous pages. Also, users with low vision are now be able to increase the size of the text. And this feature is keyboard navigable, meaning you can use can use the arrow keys to move a zoomed-in page scan.… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/new-on-jstor-full-screen-view/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/platform-updates/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Platform Updates</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5508"> <div class="meta date">May 13, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/open-access-collaboration-with-el-colegio-de-mexico-expands/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Open Access collaboration with El Colegio de México expands</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>Thanks to a grant from the Mellon Foundation, we’ve worked with El Colegio de México to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/open-access-books-from-colmex/">digitize nearly 600 important scholarly books</a> and make them available to everyone on an Open Access basis. These titles have been highly used in the six months since we started adding them to JSTOR: every book has been accessed, and there have been more than 175,000 chapter views and downloads in 180 countries and territories! </p> <p>We are now working on digitizing approximately… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/open-access-collaboration-with-el-colegio-de-mexico-expands/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/books/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Books</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/open-access/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Open Access</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5166"> <div class="meta date">March 26, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/career-opportunity-director-of-books-at-jstor/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Career opportunity: Director of Books at JSTOR</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p><span style="font-weight: 400">ITHAKA is seeking a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://recruiting.ultipro.com/ITH1000ITHAK/JobBoard/5fe90ad4-9e26-490b-9c45-6c9669d4dcd0/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=2a7426c4-8dbc-4d02-8b39-dd91fc1c96d4">Director of Books at JSTOR</a> to oversee all aspects of the book program, including building strong relationships with our library and publisher participants, attracting new content to the platform, developing sustainable acquisition models, and ensuring seamless workflows for researchers and librarians.</span></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Books at JSTOR</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> offers digital editions of scholarly books to colleges, universities, and other organizations as part of the JSTOR research and learning platform. Launched in 2012,</span>… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/career-opportunity-director-of-books-at-jstor/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/books/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Books</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/ithaka/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">ITHAKA</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5117"> <div class="meta date">March 11, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/recording-meeting-research-challenges-in-security-studies/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">Recording now available for “Meeting research challenges in Security Studies”</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p><span style="font-weight: 400">On a recent webinar for JSTOR, Dr. Sara Moller, Assistant Professor of International Security at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.shu.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Seton Hall University</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, discussed the special challenges she has encountered in conducting research in security studies. </span><span style="font-weight: 400"><br/> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400"><br/> </span><span style="font-weight: 400">Dr. Moller was joined by Bob Flatley, Associate Professor Electronic Resources and Periodicals at the </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://library.kutztown.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Kutztown University Rohrbach Library</span></a><span style="font-weight:… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/recording-meeting-research-challenges-in-security-studies/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/thematic-collections/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Thematic Collections</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-5105"> <div class="meta date">March 5, 2019</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/a-new-way-to-share-sources-on-jstor/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">A new way to share sources on JSTOR</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>JSTOR has introduced a feature that supports collaboration in your research and teaching by allowing you to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007226454#sharing_content">easily share a list of sources you save in My Workspace</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://www.jstor.org/myjstor/workspace/">My Workspace</a> is JSTOR’s citation-management tool. It allows you to save and organize your journal articles and book chapters from JSTOR along with other references found on the web, and now you can share this research with colleagues, students, and friends.</p> <p>Whether you want to share a single article or… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/a-new-way-to-share-sources-on-jstor/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/platform-updates/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Platform Updates</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-4897"> <div class="meta date">December 24, 2018</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-and-artstor-2018-highlights/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">JSTOR and Artstor 2018 highlights</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p></p> <p>As 2018 comes to a close, we took a look at JSTOR and Artstor’s milestones. This year we:… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-and-artstor-2018-highlights/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/books/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Books</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/journals/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Journals</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/open-access/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Open Access</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/platform-updates/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Platform Updates</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-4803"> <div class="meta date">November 28, 2018</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/understanding-great-works-launch/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">The JSTOR Understanding series: a new research tool on JSTOR</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/http://jstor.org/greatworks">The JSTOR Understanding series</a> (Beta) is a free research tool from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/http://labs.jstor.org/">JSTOR Labs</a> that fosters student engagement with classic literature by connecting passages in primary texts with journal articles and book chapters on JSTOR that cite those lines.</p> <p>Building on the success of the Understanding Shakespeare tool, the Understanding series encompasses several key works of British literature such as Frankenstein and Pride and Prejudice, the King James Bible, as well as all Shakespeare sonnets and plays. These… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/understanding-great-works-launch/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/jstor-labs/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">JSTOR Labs</a></div> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/platform-updates/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Platform Updates</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-4787"> <div class="meta date">November 13, 2018</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/an-initiative-to-learn-how-plants-have-shaped-human-societies/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">An initiative to learn how plants have shaped human societies</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>Plants offer remarkable opportunities for interdisciplinary research, and Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR are collaborating to launch the Plant Humanities Initiative to foster this work through scholarly programming, the exploration of primary sources, and digital publication via a new scholarly research tool.</p> <p>Head to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-have-plants-shaped-human-societies/">Scientific American blog</a> to learn more about the initiative. There, Yota Batsaki, executive director of Dumbarton Oaks, and Alex Humphreys, director of JSTOR Labs and associate vice president of JSTOR, explore how to confront the considerable… <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/an-initiative-to-learn-how-plants-have-shaped-human-societies/" class="read-more">Read more»</a></p> <div class="meta categories"> <div class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/tag/global-plants/" data-category="news-list" data-action="tag">Global Plants</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="tease tease-post" id="tease-4719"> <div class="meta date">November 1, 2018</div> <h2 class="h3 post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/https://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-and-apex-covantage-mark-20-years-bringing-academic-research-online/" data-sc="text link:news:title" data-category="news-list" data-action="title">JSTOR and Apex CoVantage mark 20 years bringing academic research online</a></h2> <p class="post-content" data-sc="content:news"><p>Today JSTOR, the global, non-profit digital library of thousands of journals, books, and primary sources, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201016161951/http://www.apexcovantage.com/">Apex CoVantage</a> (Apex), the innovative digitization and publishing solutions leader, mark the 20-year anniversary of their relationship. The organizations have pioneered the high-quality conversion of academic publications from analog to digital form, breathing new life into millions of pages of scholarly research dating back to the 1600s.</p> <p>JSTOR was founded in the mid-1990s, initially as a grant-funded project from the Andrew W. 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