In 2010, JSTOR will begin licensing and providing access to current issues for more than 80 journals. Mary Rose and Jason will discuss the value for libraries and provide details about the new offering and how you can participate.

In an era when journals publishing is increasingly dominated by commercial publishers on one end and Open Access advocates on the other, is there room for university press journal publishing models? Is not-for-profit, cost recovery publishing doomed? The increasing number of major journals and journal packages migrating away from university presses has caused great alarm within the university press community. This presentation will look at how university presses are coping with the erosion of their client base and other challenges.

Ithaka S+R is finalizing its 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 an early public preview of 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.

In late 2009, Ithaka S+R released "What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization" and an accompanying decision-support tool for JSTOR-digitized journals to help libraries evaluate the print preservation needs and activities for scholarly journals in the presence of digitized surrogates. This presentation will explain the underlying framework of the report and provide a brief demonstration of the accompanying "proof-of concept" tool.

To keep pace with the library community’s reliance on e-content, Portico digital preservation work expanded in mid-2008 to include e-books and digitized historical collections. At present, six publishers of e-books have signed with Portico, committing over 30,000 titles. In addition, Gale Cengage has committed ten of its digitized historical collections for long-term preservation with Portico. Portico’s preservation work with these two new genres continues to help libraries protect their investment in e-content and offers greater flexibility in managing print collections.