1. Current Scholarship Program Today’s scholarship is coming to JSTOR Mary Rose Muccie Director, Current Journals Program JSTOR maryrose.muccie@ithaka.org

2. Current Scholarship Program Defined  JSTOR partnering with many publishers to include current journal issues on a redesigned JSTOR platform  Key differences from JSTOR back issues –Publishers set the price for current issues –Publisher, society, journal branding stronger (but no silos) –Titles licensed individually and in collections  Shared principles are paramount –Part of and serve the scholarly community –Committed to fair and sustainable models to support the widest possible dissemination of research –Efficient, great experience for researchers  Program may include other types of content in the longer term

3. Motivating Factors  Constituent Demand –Libraries – 2006 survey –Faculty and users – Faculty surveys in ’00, ’03, ’06, and ’09 –Publishers  Value of Scale –Technology economies –Interdisciplinary content aggregation for libraries and users  Response to Environment –Desire to maintain diverse publishing community –Drive to enhance user research efficiency  Mission Imperative –Leverage community investment in JSTOR to build for tomorrow

4. 2011 Publishers PublisherTitles The University of Chicago Press51 University of California Press36 Indiana University Press28 University of Illinois Press19 Penn State University Press13 University of Nebraska Press8 Mathematical Association of America4 American Society of International Law3 Association for the Study of African American Life & History2 Historical Society of Pennsylvania2 Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Inc.1 Australian & New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine1 Central Michigan University1 Classical Association of the Middle West & South1 Massachusetts Historical Society1 Trustees of Indiana University on behalf of the Department of History1 Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture1 Oregon Historical Society1 Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University1 Total175

5. Platform Changes for JSTOR ChangeImpact More Content Formats (full-text HTML, born-digital PDF) Ability to present content in multiple formats serves specific journal/discipline needs Multimedia Ability to deliver zoomable images, audio, video, GIS, etc. New Look & Feel Debuting Summer 2010 New design allows publishers stronger branding; evolves JSTOR into a more broad-based platform that can handle multiple content types well Content Provider Management Tools Giving publishers tools to manage their own content (both journal and marketing) lays the groundwork for other forms of contributed content Open Search & BrowseReveals existence of more content to users

6. Offering to Libraries  Publishers set the prices for current journal issues to achieve the widest possible access to research in sustainable ways  Flexibility and choice  Titles can be licensed individually as current issues only or bundled with back issues for a full run  Current issues defined as going back to the year a title was first available online outside of an aggregation.  Libraries will not lose content, nor pay again for content purchased previously.  Titles can also be purchased in defined or custom collections  Order current issues directly with JSTOR or through your subscription agent  Single license for both current and back issues  Long-term preservation and post-cancellation access  All current journals preserved in Portico  Post-cancellation access offered