Ithaka's research group provides analysis of the impacts that new technologies are having on higher education to help the community respond strategically. Our purpose is to benefit academia by providing its leaders with knowledge that helps to accelerate and improve the transition to an electronic environment. We are guided in these efforts by our Research Advisory Committee.

Our current research interests fall into four broad areas:

• Providing academia with the policy basis needed to transition effectively and responsibly away from print collections and towards increasingly electronic-only collections

• The Impact of Digitization on Print Acquisitions and Collections (in progress)
• Print Repositories (in progress)
  
• Stewardship (in progress)
  
• Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals
• Economics of Scholarly Publishing
• Lessons Learned from JSTOR’s Early Development
• Systemwide View of Library Collections

• Helping information-services organizations meet the needs of scholars by understanding their changing attitudes and practices

• The Impact of Digitization on Citation Patterns (in progress)
  
• Faculty Surveys
• Librarian Survey

• Analyzing strategies for the dissemination of knowledge from colleges and universities to researchers, students, and other learners

• The Development of OpenCourseWare (in progress)
  

• How New Resources Are Used for Teaching and Learning

• Image Use and Provision at Liberal Arts Colleges

We seek for our work to have broad utility across the higher education community and we pursue this goal by sharing findings as broadly as possible, through a variety of means. Lists of articles we have published and upcoming conference presentations are available. In addition, we can design workshops and other forms of more intensive campus engagements to assist individual institutions or small groups.

If you are interested in our work, please contact us:
Roger Schonfeld, Manager of Research
rcs@ithaka.org