The JSTOR Current Scholarship Program Expands.. for 2012

[Sarah Glasser <Sarah.Glasser@ithaka.org>]

With apologies for cross-posting....

March 31, 2011 - JSTOR is pleased to announce the addition of 21 
new journals from eight new publishers to the Current Scholarship 
Program, an effort launched earlier this year that brings 
together current and historical content on the JSTOR platform.

The University of Minnesota Press; the American Schools of 
Oriental Research; the Association for Slavic, East European, and 
Eurasian Studies; Science Fiction Studies; Paradigm Publishers; 
the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; Southeast 
Asia Program Publications at Cornell University; and the Modern 
Humanities Research Association have all recently joined the 
Current Scholarship Program, and their journals will be offered 
through the program for the 2012 subscription year.

With the addition of these publishers, the Current Scholarship 
Program now encompasses 196 titles from 27 publishers. The 
Program continues to expand its reach both internationally as 
well as in the range of publishers it serves, with the inclusion 
of its first commercial publisher (Paradigm Publishers) and its 
first UK-based participant (the Modern Humanities Research 
Association).

This second set of presses joins the esteemed journals and 
publishers already included in the Current Scholarship Program, 
including Chicago, California, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, and 
Penn State University Presses, and titles such as The American 
Historical Review, The Classical Journal, and The William and 
Mary Quarterly.

"The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) and JSTOR are 
partnering to make scholarship readily available to researchers 
across the globe. The Current Scholarship Program increases the 
ease of online access to ASOR's journals for our members and 
subscribers while maintaining high academic standards. ASOR is 
pleased to join the other distinguished publishers who are part 
of the JSTOR family, and we look forward to partnering with JSTOR 
for years to come,: said Andrew G. Vaughn, Executive Director of 
ASOR.

"This newest group of publishers brings a number of important, 
high-quality publications to the program," said Mary Rose Muccie, 
Director of the Current Journals Program at JSTOR. "They 
collectively share our vision to support the broad dissemination 
of scholarship through affordable and sustainable means, and 
their participation helps provide librarians with the ability to 
subscribe to and access an even greater amount of current content 
on JSTOR."

Among the new titles added to the program is the internationally 
acclaimed The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and 
Research; Slavic Review, a longstanding JSTOR participant; and 
Modern Language Review, one of the oldest and best-known modern 
language journals.  Electronic access to these 21 new titles will 
be available on JSTOR beginning in January 2012. For libraries 
that already participate in the JSTOR Archive Collections, 
participating in the Current Scholarship Program provides 
seamless access to the complete runs of journals via the JSTOR 
platform. Libraries may also subscribe to a complete run of 
single titles within the Program.

A full list of all titles participating in the Program is 
available at:

http://bit.ly/htXbmh