About the publisher
JSTOR offer to eIFL countries and how to subscribe
Support and promotional resources for librarians

About the publisher

Service Type
Online archive of high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching.

Mission
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive. Our overarching aims are to preserve a record of scholarship for posterity and to advance research and teaching in cost-effective ways. We operate a research platform that deploys information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. We collaborate with organizations that can help us achieve our objectives and maximize the benefits for the scholarly community.

Content
An archive of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. The archive contains over 800 important scholarly journals in 50 disciplines. Visit JSTOR’s Available Collections page for detailed information on the current collections found in the archive.

Titles of Journals
A full alphabetic list of the journals available can be seen at the Journals page

Content Strengths
•   Art & Art History
•   Economics
•   Education
•   History
•   Language & Literature
•   Mathematics & Statistics
•   Music
•   Political Science
•   Science

Service Strengths
The archive is unique in terms of scale, content, and the significant use it receives.

It is recognized specifically for:
• offering a unique, interlinked aggregation of scholarly works
• facilitating interdisciplinary and historical research
• exemplary standards for digitization and completeness
• interfaces and functionality that support academic use
• highly reliable access
• long-term preservation

JSTOR offer to eIFL countries and how to subscribe

The agreement signed by eIFL and JSTOR allows selected countries of the eIFL network to access JSTOR Collections at high discounts and often at no cost for a period of 5 years starting in 2009.  Access will be provided to the entire JSTOR archive, including all content added to the archive during the period of participation. Updated information about each collection may be found at Available Collections

Access will also include all collections developed by Aluka, an initiative of JSTOR that has developed a collaborative digital library of material from and about Africa. The Aluka materials will be available at www.aluka.org in the near term.

If you are a librarian from an institution in one of the eIFL countries and would either like to know whether your institution has access to JSTOR or how to gain access, please get in touch with your country coordinator.

If you are a country coordinator, the agreement between eIFL and JSTOR as well as the licenses to fill out for access activation can be found at the MEMBERS ONLY area of our website, under "Publishers" section

Eligible eIFL countries fall within one of the 3 initiatives below:

• Under its African Access Initiative JSTOR has waived the standard participation fees (the Archive Capital Fee and the Annual Access Fee) for any not-for-profit institution on the continent of Africa for an initial 3 years.

Eligible eIFL countries: Botswana, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

• Under its Developing Nations Access Initiative, divided into 3 Tiers, JSTOR has waived and or reduced the standard participation fees (the Archive Capital Fee and the Annual Access Fee) for any not-for-profit institution in select eIFL countries. Please see links below for participation information under each Tier.

-    Developing Nations Tier 1 - JSTOR waives its standard participation fees (the Archive Capital Fee and Annual Access Fee) for any not-for-profit institution in select developing countries for an initial 3 years.
-    Developing Nations Tier 2 - JSTOR waives its standard participation fees (the Archive Capital Fee and Annual Access Fee) for any not-for-profit institution in select developing countries for 2009 and 2010 with a minimal annual increase for 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Eligible eIFL countries: Cambodia, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Moldova, Mongolia, Nepal, Syria, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
-    Developing Nations Tier 3 - JSTOR offers a dramatically reduced fee model for any not-for-profit institutions in select developing countries. Fees provide access to all available collections for a single, set discounted price.
Eligible eIFL countries: Azerbaijan, Georgia.

How to access JSTOR

Access to JSTOR and collections developed by Aluka is provided via the Internet, using IP addresses that are authorized at the institution to have that access. Institutional ID and password access may be provided where stable IP's are not available. Before JSTOR can register any institution for access to the archive, the required JSTOR Network Verification Form must be filled and submitted. Filling out the form will enable us to ensure that your network is able to run JSTOR, and will determine whether any impediments (such as proxy servers or caches) exist that might prohibit direct access to JSTOR.

Each institution has to complete and sign an agreement for access to all current collections: The JSTOR Developing Nations Access Initiative Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 and African Access Initiative Participation Agreements can be found at the MEMBERS ONLY area of our website and at the JSTOR site, under Participation Agreements.

Contact Information

For further information on JSTOR’s African Access Initiative and Developing Nations Access Initiative please contact participation@jstor.org

Support and promotional resources for librarians

Usage statistics

JSTOR provides Usage Statistics for authorized personnel at a participating institution or organization and may be obtained from the JSTOR Usage Statistics server (stats.jstor.org). JSTOR is a COUNTER Member and currently provides the COUNTER JR1 report, in addition to other usage data.

Promotional material

Support and promotional resources for librarians can be found at the following link:
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/resources/librarians/training.jsp.  

If your library wishes to receive promotional material by post, please feel free to contact Danielle Waugh, Danielle.Waugh[at]jstor.org.