Merger of JSTOR and Ithaka
Merger of JSTOR and Ithaka
Merger of JSTOR and Ithaka
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<strong>Merger</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>JSTOR</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Ithaka</strong><br />
Jason E. Phillips<br />
Associate Director, Outreach & Participation Services
Components <strong>of</strong> this new infrastructure<br />
• <strong>JSTOR</strong><br />
• Large scale content access <strong>and</strong> delivery platform, motivated by a mission to<br />
serve the academic community. (Includes Aluka Collections)<br />
• Portico<br />
• Important leader in long-term preservation <strong>of</strong> digital content, especially<br />
electronic journals<br />
• <strong>Ithaka</strong> Research<br />
• Conducting research on the implications <strong>of</strong> transition <strong>of</strong> print to electronic in<br />
faculty behaviors, citation patterns, <strong>and</strong> library services <strong>and</strong> activities.<br />
• <strong>Ithaka</strong> Strategic Services<br />
• Advice on sustainability, white papers <strong>and</strong> analysis <strong>of</strong> major trends: open<br />
source s<strong>of</strong>tware, university publishing, sustainability <strong>of</strong> academic resources<br />
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Are we doing the most with what we have<br />
• Coordinate those various activities more closely.<br />
• Streamline governance <strong>and</strong> decision-making processes to make<br />
us faster <strong>and</strong> more flexible.<br />
• Re-launch ourselves to serve the needs <strong>of</strong> the next decade, not<br />
the last one.<br />
• Continue to lower the system-wide costs for scholarly<br />
community.<br />
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Our broad set <strong>of</strong> objectives<br />
• Coordinated repositories that hold all kinds <strong>of</strong> content at all<br />
stages <strong>of</strong> the process <strong>of</strong> knowledge production (data, drafts, preprints,<br />
published articles)<br />
• Guarantees <strong>of</strong> long-term preservation <strong>of</strong> the important content<br />
• Tools that make it easy to:<br />
• Contribute content<br />
• Discover content<br />
• Integrate <strong>and</strong> organize content<br />
• Share <strong>and</strong> collaborate around the content<br />
• Evaluate <strong>and</strong> rate (peer review) content for the purposes <strong>of</strong> quality<br />
screening, validation <strong>and</strong> certification<br />
• Ascertain how content has been used <strong>and</strong> evaluated by others<br />
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Our broad set <strong>of</strong> objectives, con’t<br />
• Host & aggregate a wide range <strong>of</strong> content<br />
• Broaden the reach <strong>of</strong> content owners through <strong>JSTOR</strong><br />
• Link collections to <strong>JSTOR</strong> & other hosted collections<br />
• Provide a trusted digital preservation service & archive<br />
• Provide/enable tools to encourage data analysis & collaboration<br />
• Provide research, strategic advice to our community (libraries,<br />
societies, content owners)<br />
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Thank You!<br />
Jason E. Phillips<br />
Associate Director, Outreach & Participation Services<br />
<strong>JSTOR</strong><br />
jason.phillips@jstor.org<br />
www.linkedin.com/in/jasphil
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