News from JSTOR: University Press Joins Current Scholarship Program

["Marita LaMonica" <Marita.LaMonica@ithaka.org>]

January 6, 2010

Indiana University Press Joins Current Scholarship Program

Indiana University Press, founded in 1950 and one of the leading 
university presses in the country, and JSTOR, the preservation 
archive and research platform that is part of the not-for-profit 
ITHAKA, announced an agreement today to make leading journals 
from the Press available worldwide as part of the Current 
Scholarship Program, a new collaborative initiative announced 
<http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/news/announcements/2009.jsp#AugC> 
on August 13, 2009.

By joining the Program, current and historical content from 28 
Indiana University Press-published journals will be made 
available on a re-designed JSTOR in 2011. This will offer faculty 
and students around the world access to current issues alongside 
back issues easily and seamlessly. JSTOR's nearly 6,000 library 
participants worldwide will be able to license the Press's 
journals, either individually or as part of current issue 
collections, together with JSTOR back issue collections in a 
single transaction.

IU Press serials in the Program will include Africa Today, Jewish 
Social Studies, the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, the 
Journal of Folklore Research, and the Journal of Modern 
Literature, among others. The journals will be preserved in 
Portico, the digital preservation service that is also part of 
ITHAKA.

According to Kathryn Caras, Director of Electronic and Serials 
Publishing at IU Press, "The addition of current scholarship to 
the already-rich JSTOR archive of content is the mother lode. 
Once the project launches in early 2011, researchers and 
scholars, through subscribing institutions, will have access to 
the complete runs of some of the most important journals from 
some of the finest university presses in the country.  It will be 
an invaluable research tool, and I'm very pleased IU Press 
Journals is part of it."

Indiana University Press joins University of California Press and 
the University of Illinois Press in the Program. The current 
issues of at least 70 journals from these publishers will be 
available from JSTOR for the 2011 subscription year. Other 
organizations are being encouraged to join.

"Indiana University Press publishes excellent journals that are 
essential to research in the humanities," said Mary Rose Muccie, 
JSTOR Current Journals Director. "We look forward to working with 
the Press to provide librarians and users with a great and 
efficient experience - access to the latest Press-published 
research and full archives, on a platform they know and use every 
day."

Together, participants in this Program aim to create an improved 
online work environment for faculty and students by bringing 
complete journal runs from multiple publishers together in one 
place, to ease the burden on librarians of negotiating separate 
license agreements with a multitude of publishers and independent 
titles, and to promote a more cost-effective publishing 
environment for the scholarly community. For more information, 
see 
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/programs/currentScholarship.jsp.