From: Laura Brown <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 20:46:18 +0000 Hi Toby and others – I am happy to share relevant data for JSTOR with this list. For 2015, JSTOR made 10.2 million journal articles available. We had just over 70 million downloads (this figure excludes bots and counts in compliance with COUNTER 4). This includes 1.9 million downloads of our open content (Early Journal Content) with the remainder coming predominantly from people at nearly 10,000 institutions that license JSTOR journal collections either for a fee or for free through our African Access and Developing Nations Initiatives. We also offer anyone in the world the option of registering with JSTOR to read journal articles online for free. To Toby’s point about audiences being larger than one thinks, we started this program when Google began sending significant traffic to JSTOR from beyond our participating institutions. About 80% of the journals on JSTOR are now available this way (some publishers have opted out of this program). Last year, we gave this free reading option to users over 110 million times (as a point of comparison in terms of potential audience, we passed authenticated users into articles 147 million times). However, users actually took the option and registered or logged-in to read the articles about 1.6 million times. So our usage is higher than Sci-Hub’s, but there is more we can do. We recognize and have benefited from the reality that use is a function of convenience in our core community and the growing one outside. Even our small registration barrier can be too high for some people. Users simply expect access to be as easy as possible, especially when they know what they are looking for. We have no illusions about this fact and see delivery of a fantastic, easy, multi-device experience as the bar we should be aiming for at JSTOR, for institutional and unaffiliated users alike. We are pursuing this reality in a way that respects the rights of others and that takes into account the other things that matter beyond frictionless delivery of a PDF. These include structured data – mentioned in the Science article, preservation, reliable long-term access, and the ability to invest new resources in continuing to bring content from the past online in useful ways. JSTOR digitized 4.3 million pages of new content last year and, with the investment of those institutions that contributed fees to JSTOR, has digitized 63 million over the last 20 years. It is not easy but I am optimistic we can find ways to continue to invest as a community in the things that matter even as access becomes more convenient for everyone. Laura Brown JSTOR Managing Director