8:00 - 8:15

Welcome & JSTOR and Portico Update

Kristen Garlock, Associate Director of Education & Outreach, will provide a brief update on enhancements to the JSTOR platform, new JSTOR collections, the new JSTOR usage stats tool, JSTOR plant science, and the Portico CRL audit.

8:15 – 8:45

Current Scholarship Program

In 2011, JSTOR will begin licensing and providing access to current issues for 175 journals. Bruce Heterick, Vice President, Outreach & Participation Services, will discuss the value for libraries and provide details about this new program and how you can participate.

8:45 – 9:15

The Expansion of Portico’s Preservation Services

Eileen Fenton, Executive Director of Portico, will discuss the substantial growth of the Portico archive, and Portico’s expanded offering of disaggregated e-journal and e-book services. Portico’s preservation work with these two genres continues to help libraries protect their investment in e-content, and helps keep pace with the community’s evolving preservation needs.

9:15 - 10:00

Faculty Attitudes 2009: Results from Ithaka S+R’s latest nationwide survey

Roger Schonfeld, Manager of Research, Ithaka S+R, and Ross Housewright, Analyst, Ithaka S+R, will discuss the analysis of the latest in a series of surveys of US-based faculty members. These surveys, conducted since 2000, have examined faculty attitudes as authors, teachers, and researchers on a variety of key strategic issues facing the higher education community. This presentation will include findings from the fall 2009 survey, focusing on the changing attitudes of faculty on the print-to-electronic transition for scholarly journals and other materials.