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] _____________ Sarah Glasser Associate Director, Marketing & Communications ITHAKA Tel: 212-358-6419 [log in to unmask] 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.