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/. ____________ Sarah Glasser Director, Global Product Marketing ITHAKA Tel: 212-358-6419 [log in to unmask]