From: Sarah Glasser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:26:47 -0500

With apologies for cross-posting…

JSTOR and WALDO (the Westchester Academic Library Directors
Organization) are pleased to announce 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)
program.

WALDO – the membership organization 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.

Through the agreement, WALDO members are able to individually select
books and create DDA approval plans with the Books at JSTOR program,
which includes titles from the university presses of Columbia,
Cornell, Penn State, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and many others.
Participating libraries will 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.

Robert Karen, Director of Procurement Services for WALDO said of the
new program, “Finally WALDO can offer our members flexible acquisition
options for e-books combined with volume discounts.  As the new
program rolls out, WALDO members can opt to move forward with a DDA
program, pick and mix, or predefined collections. The choice is made
by the individual library and not defined by the consortium.  Adding
e-books to the JSTOR platform is just a natural evolution for
libraries and it will deliver an even greater return on investment for
our membership."

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.

About JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library of more than 1,900 academic journals,
15,000 books, and 2 million primary source objects.  JSTOR helps
people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a
powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content
for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit
organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more
information, please visit http://about.jstor.org

About WALDO

WALDO is a membership organization supporting the procurement and
administration of electronic information services for libraries since
1982. Incorporated as a non-profit organization, WALDO offers
consortial discounts for databases and services from over 60 different
vendors representing just over 2,000 online databases and services.
WALDO membership includes over 1,000 academic, public, special and
hospital Libraries. More information about WALDO is at
www.waldolib.org/.

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Sarah Glasser
Director, Global Product Marketing
ITHAKA
Tel: 212-358-6419
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