JSTOR : A History.
Title:
JSTOR : A History.
Author:
Schonfeld, Roger C.
ISBN:
9781400843114
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (361 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- A Note on Publication -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- A JSTOR Time Line -- Chapter 1 The Idea at Denison, the Project at Mellon -- December 1993-January 1994 -- Chapter 2 In Search of a Partner, but Beginning Alone -- February-May 1994 -- Chapter 3 Securing an Institutional Partner: The University of Michigan -- April-August 1994 -- Chapter 4 The Pilot Project -- September 1994-April 1995 -- Chapter 5 Evolving Organizational Decisions-and Independence -- February-December 1995 -- Chapter 6 Defining a Mission in Partnership with Publishers -- September 1995-August 1996 -- Chapter 7 Operational Changes at Michigan -- September 1995-August 1996 -- Chapter 8 Developing a Business Plan -- January-December 1996 -- Chapter 9 A More Thoroughly Professionalized Operation -- September 1996-December 1997 -- Chapter 10 Public Availability and Library Participation -- September 1996-December 1997 -- Chapter 11 Developing Two New Collections -- May 1997-December 1999 -- Chapter 12 Increasing Availability and Participation -- January 1998-December 1999 -- Chapter 13 Completing Arts & Sciences I and Strategizing for the Future -- July 1998-December 1999 -- Chapter 14 Challenges and Opportunities of Growth -- January 2000-December 2001 -- Conclusion -- A Self-Sustaining Organizaiton -- Epilogue -- Lessons Learned -- Appendix -- List of Journals -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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