JSTOR : a history / Roger C. Schonfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schonfeld, Roger C., 1977-

Contributor:

Varian, Hal R., Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

JSTOR (Organization)--History.

JSTOR (Organization).

JSTOR (Computer file).

Periodicals--Databases.

Periodicals.

Genre:

Authors' presentation copies.

Dust jackets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ten years ago, most scholars and students relied on bulky card catalogs, printed bibliographic indices, and hardcopy books and journals. Today, much content is available electronically or online. This book examines the history of one of the first, and most successful, digital resources for scholarly communication, JSTOR. Beginning as a grant-funded project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the University of Michigan, JSTOR has grown to become a major archive of the backfiles of academic journals, and its own nonprofit organization. Roger Schonfeld begins this history by looking at JSTOR's original mission of saving storage space and thereby storage costs, a mission that expanded immediately to improving access to the literature. What role did the University play? Could JSTOR have been built without the active involvement of a foundation? Why was it seen as necessary to "spin off" the project? This case study proceeds as an organizational history of the birth and maturation of this nonprofit, which had to emerge from the original university partnership to carve its own identity. How did the grant project evolve into a successful marketplace enterprise? How was JSTOR able to serve its twofold mission of archiving its journals while also providing access to them? What has accounted for its growth? Finally, Schonfeld considers implications of the economic and organizational aspects of archiving as well as the system-wide savings that JSTOR ensures by broadly distributing costs.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword / Varian, Hal

A Note on Publication

Introduction

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

A JSTOR Time Line

CHAPTER 1. The Idea at Denison, the Project at Mellon

CHAPTER 2. In Search of a Partner, but Beginning Alone

CHAPTER 3. Securing an Institutional Partner: The University of Michigan

CHAPTER 4. The Pilot Project

CHAPTER 5. Evolving Organizational Decisions-and Independence

CHAPTER 6. Defining a Mission in Partnership with Publishers

CHAPTER 7. Operational Changes at Michigan

CHAPTER 8. Developing a Business Plan

CHAPTER 9. A More Thoroughly Professionalized Operation

CHAPTER 10. Public Availability and Library Participation

CHAPTER 11. Developing Two New Collections

CHAPTER 12. Increasing Availability and Participation

CHAPTER 13. Completing Arts & Sciences I and Strategizing for the Future

CHAPTER 14. Challenges and Opportunities of Growth

CONCLUSION. A Self-Sustaining Organizaiton

EPILOGUE. Lessons Learned

APPENDIX. All Journals in JSTOR, by Collection

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-404) and index.

ISBN:

9786613458100

9781283458108

1283458101

9781400843114

1400843111

OCLC:

777375664