JSTOR Current Scholarship Program:

Current Issues and e-Books

Ken DiFiore, MLSAssociate Director

Outreach & Participation ServicesJSTOR | Portico

Scholarly Communication Landscape

•Teaching and research practices moving online…

…dynamic content, Web2.0, OA, IR.

•New publishing models emerging…

…if content is not online, it’s non-existent.

…price increases, consolidation, and aggregation.

•Competition over market share threatens small publishing entities…

• Increased pressure on university press publishing…

…struggle to modernize, lack administration support.

“University Publishing in a Digital Age”, ITHAKA Report, 2007

Current Scholarship Program (CSP)

2010: JSTOR launches Current Scholarship program to help the academic community – presses, scholarly associations, libraries, faculty, and students – benefit from investment in a shared technology platform and related services to support the economically sustainable publication, dissemination, and use of new scholarship.

• Deep understanding library needs and the challenges and inefficiencies inherent in the current system of scholarly communication.

• Desire to collaborate in ways that are innovative, share and use technological and other resources wisely and efficiently, and promote wide-spread access to scholarship in sustainable ways.

Publisher Participants:

Two Components of CSP: Current Issues

2011: Current Issues of select publishers available on JSTOR platform.

1)

Moving Wall

Backfile Issues Current Issues

Vol. 1Issue 1

Current Vol.

Issue

Available on JSTOR

• Current issue subscribers may align titles with JSTOR back file.

• Seamless access across entire run of title on JSTOR platform.

• “Current” Single Title/Collection: Prices established by publisher.

• Full Run” Single Title/Collection: Fee is an aggregate of current price, set by publisher, plus individual back file fee, set by JSTOR.70% of e-only subscription price

Two Components of CSP: Current Issues

2011: 174 titles; 19 publishers for subscription year

2012: 5 new publishers / 13 new titles signed for 2012 subscription year (as of 16 March)

Publisher Titles

The University of Chicago Press 50

University of California Press 37

Indiana University Press 28

University of Illinois Press 19

Penn State University Press 13

University of Nebraska Press 8

Modern Humanities Research Association (2012) 6

Mathematical Association of America 4

American Society of International Law 3

American Society of Oriental Research (2012) 3

Paradigm (2012) 2

Association for the Study of African American Life & History 2

Historical Society of Pennsylvania 2

Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Inc. 1

Australian & New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine 1

Central Michigan University 1

Classical Association of the Middle West & South 1

Massachusetts Historical Society 1

Science Fiction Studies (2012) 1

Slavic Review (2012) 1

Trustees of Indiana University on behalf of the Department of History

1

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 1

Oregon Historical Society 1

Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University 1

Total 174 / 187

(2012)

Current Issue Ordering Options

1. Place renewal and/or new orders directly with JSTOR

Simple process

• Subscription Order Form

• Rider to JSTOR license for existing participants

• Price calculator to estimate ordering cost

No additional fees

2. Place renewal and/or new orders with subscription agents, with the exception of Archive back file collections.

Print-only orders must be made to the publisher or subscription agent

Two Components of CSP: e-Books at JSTOR

2012: 8 University Press publishers to host their e-books on JSTOR

2)

• Currently refining business model for subscription and perpetual access, including DRM, ILL, etc

• May order via book wholesalers or directly with JSTOR.

CSP Benefits to Libraries

•Broad access to quality scholarship through affordable and sustainable means

•Seamless access to authoritative and diverse content

•Fair and transparent pricing

•Reliable, long-term preservation and access to scholarship

•Reduced administrative costs

•Evidenced based collection management (usage statistics)

•Use of innovative content access models and technology

Savings for Libraries and Consortia

•Fees for backfile collections remain constant; millions of pages are added to collections every year.

•Currently offer savings of 9% to ANKOS members.

•Direct orders for Current Issues and e-Books avoids Agent fees.

•Realize and extend cost savings for single licensing / single invoicing

•Evaluating volume-based savings with Current Issue purchases.

• For example, Complete University of Chicago Package

For more information…

http://about.jstor.org

Questions?