The University of Chicago Press has announced a partnership with JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA. Under the deal, the Press will make leading titles available worldwide as part of the Current Scholarship Program. Scheduled for launch early next year, the programme will bring scholarly content from leading not-for-profit publishers to a single integrated platform, making its use more innovative, efficient, and affordable for faculty, students, librarians and publishers.
The University of Chicago Press brings 51 popular titles to the programme, including many influential publications such as The American Historical Review, The American Naturalist, the American Journal of Sociology and the Journal of Political Economy. Both current and back issues will be accessible on the platform.
First announced in August 2009, the Current Scholarship Program seeks to address some of the biggest challenges and inefficiencies in scholarly communications today. For scholars and educators, the programme offers an improved online work environment that combines new content with complete journal backfiles. For librarians, the collaboration brings leading journals from multiple publishers together under one roof, allowing direct licensing through JSTOR.
Currently, there are eleven publishers working together as part of the programme. With the addition of the University of Chicago Press, the current issues for at least 150 journals will be available on JSTOR by 2011. More than 6,000 JSTOR library participants worldwide will be able to license the current journals, either individually or as part of current issue collections, together with JSTOR back issue collections in a single transaction. The journals will also continue to be preserved in Portico, the digital preservation service that, along with JSTOR, is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA.
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