From: Sarah Glasser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:57:22 -0400
Subject: Books At JSTOR: Launching in November. Initial Title List Now
Available.
With apologies for cross-posting…
JSTOR is pleased to announce that Books at JSTOR will be live in
November 2012. Books at JSTOR will feature over 14,000 scholarly
monographs from leading academic presses, which will be fully
integrated with the more than 1,600 current and archival journals on
JSTOR, including links to and from book reviews.
An initial title list, as well as more information on the program, is
available at http://books.jstor.org.
Books at JSTOR will feature front- and backlist books, available for
purchase as individual titles. All books will be available in a single
concurrent user model, and many will be in an unlimited user model.
The program will feature:
* Flexible purchase options, including demand-driven acquisition
* High-quality metadata, including chapter-level DOIs and free MARC records
* Perpetual access rights, with books preserved in Portico
(http://www.portico.org)
* COUNTER-compliant usage statistics
The following publishers are participating in Books at JSTOR; we
anticipate adding additional publishers prior to launch:
Boydell and Brewer
Brookings Institution
Central European University Press
Columbia University Press
Cornell University Press
Edinburgh University Press
Harvard University Press
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Penn State University Press
Princeton University Press
RAND Publications
Russell Sage Foundation
University of California Press
The University of Illinois Press
The University of Michigan Press
The University of Minnesota Press
The University of North Carolina Press
The University of Texas Press
The University of Toronto Press
University Press of Mississippi
Yale University Press
For an initial title list and more information, please visit
http://books.jstor.org. More titles will be added to the list each
month; we encourage you to sign up for e-alerts to be notified when
the latest title list is available.
To learn more about Books at JSTOR and other new initiatives, visit us
at ALA at booth #2324. Stop by to learn about:
New Archive Collections
Latest Current Journals
JSTOR Search Beta
Plant Science
Books
Flexible Subscription Options
JSTOR representatives will be hosting information sessions at booth
#1290 at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m on Saturday, June 23 and Sunday, June
24.
For more information, please contact us at [log in to unmask]
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Sarah Glasser
Associate Director, Marketing & Communications
ITHAKA
Tel: 212-358-6419
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ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org) is a not-for-profit organization that helps
the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the
scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable
ways. We provide innovative services that benefit higher education,
including Ithaka S+R, JSTOR, and Portico.
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