The University of Illinois Press, the publishing division of the University of Illinois, has announced an agreement with JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA.Under the deal, the University of Illinois Press will make leading journals from the Press available worldwide as part of the Current Scholarship Program.
The Current Scholarship Program, first announced in August 2009, is a new collaboration initiated by University of California Press and JSTOR. 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. In addition, the initiative seeks to promote a more cost-effective publishing environment for the scholarly community.
Current and historical content from atleast ten University of Illinois Press-published journals will be available on a re-designed JSTOR in 2011. This will offer faculty and students worldwide access to current issues alongside back issues and a growing set of primary source materials from libraries. JSTOR’s nearly 6,000 library participants worldwide will be able to license the Press’s current journals, either individually or as part of current issue collections, together with JSTOR back issue collections in a single transaction. University of Illinois Press-published journals available as part of the Program will include American Journal of Psychology, Journal of Aesthetic Education, and Journal of American Ethnic History, among others. The journals will also be preserved in Portico, the digital preservation service that is also part of ITHAKA.
With the addition of the University of Illinois Press, the current issues of at least forty journals will be available from JSTOR for the 2011 subscription year. Other organisations are also being encouraged to join the Program.
Search for more such archiving services in K-Store
Discuss this NEWS
