Fellow not-for-profit Artstor comes under the ITHAKA umbrella to expand the impact of its digital image library and community hosting platform and offering new ways to the scholarship on JSTOR.
Fellow not-for-profit Artstor comes under the ITHAKA umbrella to expand the impact of its digital image library and community hosting platform and offering new ways to the scholarship on JSTOR.
Several major reports and books kick off this area focused on addressing the key challenges facing higher education in the United States.
“Where news meets its scholarly match” is the mantra for this new online magazine that brings academic research into the mainstream.
New team – the model for JSTOR in the future – tests ideas for driving research and teaching forward in partnership with libraries, publishers, teachers, students, and scholars. Early projects include Understanding Shakespeare, Classroom Readings, and JSTOR Snap.
Global Plants is launched as a community-contributed database where worldwide herbaria share resources and expertise. The first in a new series of JSTOR resources, at launch, Global Plants contains more than 2 million plant type specimens, paintings, drawings, correspondences, and supporting materials.
The British Library is the first national library to tap Portico as its partner to meet legal deposit requirements for the preservation of academic journals published in their country.
A major milestone is reached in meeting the challenge of digital preservation.
Ithaka S+R’s new monthly series launches with influential leaders contributing their latest thinking on everything from driving innovation at public universities to creating smarter spaces on campuses.
Register & Read, a free, online-reading access plan launches, allowing users outside of JSTOR participating institutions to read up to three articles every two weeks. This is followed by the launch of a paid service, JPASS, the following year.
Portico expands preservation efforts to support libraries’ rapid expansion in purchasing e-books to support research and teaching.
JSTOR announces Books at JSTOR, a program that will bring more than tens of thousands of books online, developed out of a year-long investigation into the needs of publishers, libraries, and researchers.
JSTOR announces the Current Scholarship Program, making current and archival journals available on a single, integrated platform for librarians and end-users.
Portico is the first major digital preservation service to receive certification as a trusted repository by the Center for Research Libraries.
ITHAKA, the new combined not-for-profit organization, unites three services focused on the shared mission of helping the academic community effectively use digital technologies to improve education: JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R.
“Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources” marks Ithaka’s first commissioned study by a funder, the Strategic Content Alliance in the UK.
Data for Research is developed to support research and teaching using digital collections at scale.
The next wave in digital preservation is taken up, with Portico leading the way.
Ithaka releases “University Publishing in a Digital Age,” a landmark report arguing that a renewed commitment to publishing can enable universities to realize the global impact of academic programs, enhance the reputations of their institutions, maintain a strong voice in determining important scholarship, and, in some cases, reduce costs.
The JSTOR library is made freely available to all educational and other non-profit organizations throughout Africa. This initiative is expanded to 40 developing countries beyond Africa in 2008.
Portico - born from the Electronic-Archiving Initiative - is launched as a long-term, third-party digital preservation solution funded by publishers and libraries.
Ithaka is founded by Kevin Guthrie, then president of JSTOR. JSTOR focuses on providing a growing shared online library and access expansion, while Ithaka focuses on research and new service development in support of JSTOR’s founding mission. The Electronic Archiving Initiative is moved from JSTOR to Ithaka.
Preservation needs take center stage as libraries move from print to digital journal collections, JSTOR launches the Electronic-Archiving Initiative with a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a solution. This initiative lays the foundation for a new service, Portico.
JSTOR launches a pioneering, shared online library of digitized journal back issues in partnership with academic libraries and publishers. This helps institutions save costs associated with preserving and storing library materials, and improves access to scholarship.
The UK government invests in major transformation of its university infrastructure, working with JSTOR as a primary partner in preserving and expanding access to research.
JSTOR is founded as an independent not-for-profit organization with start-up funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Its broad mission is to help the academic community take advantage of advances in new technologies.
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