The 3-Legged Stool: How JSTOR Balances the Needs of Scholars, Librarians, and Publishers in Maintaining a Sustainable Not-For- Profit Enterprise ACRL/NY Symposium 2004

“If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning” Originally a project of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Initiated to test the concept that storing old journal volumes in electronic form might reduce system-wide storage and preservation costs for libraries JSTOR established as an independent, not-for-profit organization in August 1995 Charged from inception with the requirement that it develop a sustainable economic model

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help the scholarly community take advantage of the advances in information technology. This includes: (1) building a reliable and comprehensive archive of core scholarly journals, and (2) dramatically improving access to this scholarly material. In pursuing its mission, JSTOR takes a system-wide perspective, seeking benefits for libraries, publishers and scholars “There is a significant difference between involvement and commitment. When I sit down to breakfast, I realize that the chicken was involved, the pig was committed.”

“Nothing will ever be accomplished if all possible objections must be overcome” Libraries Scholars Publishers

There are both advantages and disadvantages to compromise. As Moses observed when he came down from the mountain with the ten commandments: "The good news is that I got them down to ten, the bad news is that adultery is still in there". Archiving Moving Wall Digitization Standard (600 dpi) Uncorrected OCR Page Images Quality vs. Quantity Participation fees directly associated with mission No consortium pricing Institutional site licenses

“The future ain’t what it used to be” Reference capturing Image compositing Revenue sharing with publishers Archiving born-digital content

“The future will be like the past, because in the past, the future was like the past.” ARTstor –Content Large images Institution-wide relevance –Software tools Undergrads and art history faculty –Environment Indemnification interoperability

“Statistics are like bikinis, what they reveal is interesting, but what they conceal is essential.” 2,200+ participating institutions in 86 countries 270+ participating publishers 450+ titles in 36 disciplines 18 million pages of content 160 million significant accesses in 2004 –November 11, 2004: over 1 million accesses in a single day

“In the theatre of confusion, the important thing is to know the location of the exits” JSTOR: A History Roger Schonfeld Princeton University Press 2003