... seven new publishers have recently joined the Current Scholarship Program. While work continues to sign additional publishers and titles to the Program, with these new partners, libraries will be able to license and provide their users with access to the current issues of at least 100 journals on the JSTOR platform beginning in 2011.
[The Current Scholarship Program was first announced on August 13, 2009.]
The publishers that recently joined the Program include:
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Michigan Historical Review, Central Michigan University
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Massachusetts Historical Society
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
University of Nebraska Press
Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University
These publishers bring a wealth of ground-breaking scholarship to the Program. Titles include The William & Mary Quarterly and The Journal of African American History, as well as other core publications in African American Studies, Feminist Studies, and History.
A final list of publishers and titles that will be available in the Current Scholarship Program for the 2011 subscription year will be coming soon, and pricing for the current issues of these journals will be available in early summer. In the meantime, as you begin your collection development planning for next year, a presentation from ALA Midwinter about the Program benefits for libraries and details about how your institution will be able to license titles in the Program is available online.
Starting in 2011, publishers who participate in the Current Scholarship Program will have both current and historical content from their published journals available on a redesigned JSTOR platform. Current issue prices will be set by participating publishers and will include all content ahead of the moving wall. Back issues of journals not included in JSTOR today will be added to the archive.
Libraries worldwide will be able to license the current journals, individually and as part of new current issue collections, simply by checking a box to add them to their existing JSTOR license agreement. These libraries will then pay one consolidated JSTOR invoice for all licensed content, including existing back issue collections.
