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JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
-based online
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
 system for archiving academic journal
Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research....
s, founded in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized
Digitizing

Digitizing or digitization is representing an Object , , document or a Signal by a discrete set of its points or sample s. The result is called "digital group representation" or, more specifically, a "digital image", for the object, and "digital form", for the signal....
 back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, or Phil. Trans., is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society.Begun in 1665, it is the oldest scientific journal printed in the Anglosphere and the second oldest in the world, after the French Journal des s?avans....
.

JSTOR was originally funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City and Princeton, New Jersey in the United States, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W....
, but is now an independent, self-sustaining non-profit organization
Non-profit organization

A nonprofit organization is any organization that does not aim to make a profit, and which is not a public body....
 with offices in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 and Ann Arbor, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
. In January 2009, it was announced that it would merge with Ithaka, another non-profit academic organization.

Usage and contents
JSTOR access is licensed mainly to libraries, universities and publishers all over the world.






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JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
-based online
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
 system for archiving academic journal
Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research....
s, founded in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized
Digitizing

Digitizing or digitization is representing an Object , , document or a Signal by a discrete set of its points or sample s. The result is called "digital group representation" or, more specifically, a "digital image", for the object, and "digital form", for the signal....
 back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, or Phil. Trans., is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society.Begun in 1665, it is the oldest scientific journal printed in the Anglosphere and the second oldest in the world, after the French Journal des s?avans....
.

JSTOR was originally funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City and Princeton, New Jersey in the United States, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W....
, but is now an independent, self-sustaining non-profit organization
Non-profit organization

A nonprofit organization is any organization that does not aim to make a profit, and which is not a public body....
 with offices in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 and Ann Arbor, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
. In January 2009, it was announced that it would merge with Ithaka, another non-profit academic organization.

Usage and contents


JSTOR access is licensed mainly to libraries, universities and publishers all over the world. Some institutions with Athens
Athens access and identity management

Athens is an Access and Identity Management service that is supplied by Eduserv to provide single sign-on to protected resources combined with full user management capability....
 subscriptions have access to it. Licensee institutions can make JSTOR available to their members free of charge through the Internet. Individual subscriptions are also available to certain journal titles through the journal publisher.

As of February 2008, JSTOR material is provided by 568 publishers. More than 10 million searches of the archives were performed between January 1 and February 6, 2008. In addition to its use as an archive for individual journals, JSTOR has also been used as a resource for linguistics research. The breadth of material in the archive makes it useful in investigating trends in language use over time.

The availability of nearly all journals on JSTOR is controlled by a "moving wall", which is an agreed-upon delay between the current volume of the journal and the latest volume available on JSTOR. This time period is specified by agreement between JSTOR and the publisher and is usually 3-5 years. Publishers can request that the period of a "moving wall" be changed or request discontinuation of coverage. Formerly publishers could also request that the "moving wall" be changed to a "fixed wall" – a specified date after which JSTOR would not add new volumes to its database. As of March 2008, "fixed wall" agreements were still in effect with three publishers of 32 journals made available online through sites controlled by the publishers.

Related projects


ARTstor
ARTstor

ARTstor is a non-profit organization which operates the ARTstor Digital Library, a collection of digital images of artwork available for non-commercial and educational use....
 was set up as a sister organization to JSTOR to do the same job, using a similar subscription model, and beginning to function in 2004. It gained considerable impetus after the disbanding in 2005 of Art Museum Image Consortium
Art Museum Image Consortium

Art Museum Image Consortium was a non-profit organization of institutions with collections of art, collaborating to enable educational use of museum multimedia....
 (AMICO), a competitive online system for images of artworks, set up by a Getty Foundation
Getty Foundation

The Getty Foundation, based in Los Angeles, California, at the Getty Center, awards grants for "the understanding and preservation of the visual arts"....
-led consortium of institutions. ARTstor has gained the use of many existing image databases, and has digitized for the first time The Illustrated Bartsch, the largest catalogue for old master print
Old master print

An old master print is a work of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition . A date of about 1830 is usually taken as marking the end of the period whose prints are covered by this term....
s. It contained a total of "nearly 500,000" images in mid-2007.

Ithaka Harbors, Inc., a non-profit organization based in New York City and Princeton, New Jersey, works closely with JSTOR and ARTstor in the areas of finance, human resource management, information technology, software development, research, and strategic guidance.

Aluka
Aluka

Aluka is an Internet digital library focusing on materials about Africa. Aluka's mission is to connect scholars from around the world by building a common platform that allows online collaboration and knowledge sharing....
 is an online digital library focusing on the materials about Africa. Started in 2003, Aluka was an initiative of Ithaka Harbors. In July 2008, Aluka merged with JSTOR organizationally, and the platforms and content will eventually be merged as well.

See also

  • Digital preservation
    Digital preservation

    Digital preservation is the management of digital information over time. Preservation of digital information is widely considered to require more constant and ongoing attention than preservation of other media....
  • Project MUSE
    Project MUSE

    Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer reviewed humanities and social sciences Academic journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S....


Further reading

    • Spinella, Michael P. "JSTOR: Past, Present, and Future." Journal of Library Administration, 2007, Vol. 46 Issue 2, pp. 55-78,


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