JSTOR and WALDO (the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organisation) have announced an agreement that enables WALDO member libraries to participate in the Books at JSTOR through both outright book purchases as well as a demand-driven acquisition (DDA) programme.
WALDO - the membership organisation that counts more than 700 academic libraries amongst its members - and JSTOR will provide institutions with the ability to purchase books as individual titles, as well as to provide seamless access to titles through the demand-driven acquisition model. JSTOR is a digital library of more than 1,900 academic journals, 15,000 books and 2 million primary source objects.
Through the agreement, WALDO members can expect to individually select books and create DDA approval plans with the Books at JSTOR programme, which includes titles from the university presses of Columbia, Cornell, Penn State, Princeton, Harvard, Yale and many others. Participating libraries will reportedly have access to a wide range of scholarly monographs, with purchases triggered only for those books with real usage, and WALDO will facilitate those purchases for its members.
Books at JSTOR, which launched in November, currently features more than 15,000 books from 30 publishers. Books are deeply integrated with the 1,900 current and archival journals on JSTOR. All content is cross-searchable, and books are linked from millions of book reviews and from hundreds of thousands of book citations within the journal literature.
