From: "Hulbert, Linda A." <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:33:46 +0000
Books at JSTOR is coming on line and I hate to rain on its parade.
It's a terrific ebook product, I'm sure. The book content will be
discoverable in the database that faculty use and to which they direct
their students. If the book is in there and the user finds a citation
to it from a JSTOR book or journal, the user can get to the book.
They have listened to libraries for acquisition methods offering the
books to be purchased book by book, narrowly described subject,
broadly described subject, the whole collection or DDA. They are using
the same tiers they've developed for journals for pricing. JSTOR is
that trusted source of archival materials and they have arranged for
archival preservation. Libraries have given them their content for
digitizing. And libraries send 10s of thousands of dollars to them
every year.
Books at JSTOR will include the fine quality publications of our
university presses and institutes.
However, if I buy that same book through my book vendor (should it
continue to be offered that way), I've negotiated the right to
interlibrary loan - keeping my institution's fair use. I know that
ILL is inefficient and potentially more expensive for ebooks than
other methods of accessing them (I don't need a response from
colleagues telling me I'm stupid for trying to maintain fair use for
ebooks). I believe in time the marketplace may direct me to the
short-term loan as a more efficient and less expensive model - but I
want that choice and that choice is gone in Books at JSTOR. There is
NO ILL. Period. Not a paragraph, not a chapter, not 10% of the book.
When I sign the license to buy an ebook from Books at JSTOR, I cede
Fair Use.
The folks at JSTOR don't mention that in their literature and it's the
last thing on the webinar. We abandon the Fair Use doctrine at our
own peril. We decide that our user needs are paramount and we're not
going to worry about that so that we can get them this terrific
content today, at our future peril. As we move more and more to the
e-choice for books, we make more and more less available to our
borrowing partners and they to us.
I encourage my colleagues to put pressure on JSTOR to go back to the
drawing board and renegotiate ILL rights for purchasers. I encourage
librarians to go back to their University presses and encourage them
to allow ILL and favorable rights for our publishing scholars.
Linda
Linda Hulbert, Associate Director
Collection Management and Services
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library #5004
University of Saint Thomas
2115 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
Phone: (651) 962-5016 Fax: (651) 962-5486 email:
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Subject: A New Chapter Begins: Books at JSTOR Launches
From: Sarah Glasser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:47:33 -0500
With apologies for cross-posting.
A New Chapter Begins: Books at JSTOR Launches
More than 15,000 books join the journals on JSTOR
JSTOR is pleased to announce the launch of its new books program,
Books at JSTOR, which brings scholarly monographs from leading
university presses and other academic publishers to the JSTOR
platform. Books are deeply integrated with the 1,600 current and
archival journals on JSTOR. All content is cross-searchable, and books
are linked with millions of book reviews and from hundreds of
thousands of book citations within the journal literature.
The Books at JSTOR initiative is the result of extensive consultations
with librarians, publishers, and users to develop an offering that
meets and balances the needs of the scholarly community. We plan to
continue the dialogue with all of our stakeholders as we learn
together from our experience and usage data; add new books and
publishers to the program; and refine the functionality on the
platform.
Books at JSTOR features:
* A growing list of titles in core scholarly disciplines. Books from
participating presses are already highly-cited within the corpus of
journals on JSTOR. More than 15,000 front- and backlist are currently
offered through the program, and new titles are added every month.
* Flexible purchase options. All books are available in a single-user
model, and thousands in a multi-user model. Books are available for
purchase as individual titles, disciplinary packages, and customizable
collections. Volume discounts are offered. A demand-driven acquisition
option is also available.
* Preservation assured. Books are preserved in Portico (portico.org),
ITHAKA's digital preservation service.
* Seamless integration. JSTOR currently has millions of book reviews
and hundreds of thousands of book citations on the platform. Books,
journal articles, and reviews are cross-searchable and linked in ways
that make online research faster, easier, and more effective.
To date, Books at JSTOR has 26 participating presses, including
leading university presses, scholarly societies and other academic
publishers. For a list of participating presses, visit
http://books.jstor.org.
Experience books on JSTOR
Books have been incorporated into the existing functionality on JSTOR,
and tabs on the search results page allow for easy filtering by
content type. Learn more about books on JSTOR by viewing a tutorial
at:http://about.jstor.org/sites/default/files/general/BooksGuide112012.pdf.
The latest title list is now available at http://books.jstor.org.
Libraries can also request trial access to books by contacting us at
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Sarah Glasser
Director, Global Product Marketing
ITHAKA
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