[Eril-l] ITHAKA announces new services to help academic, research, and cultural institutions easily and affordably share, preserve, and manage their local digital collections

[Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list]

Dear Colleagues,

Following a successful series of pilots during which over 300 institutions shared more than 1,800 collections on JSTOR, and a cohort of 40 partners helped to define preservation and collection loading needs, ITHAKA announced today a new set of services to help academic, research, and cultural institutions easily and affordably share, preserve, and manage their local digital collections. Using the same infrastructure that powers ITHAKA's nonprofit services JSTOR and Portico, institutions can now increase the reach and usefulness of their local digital collections, secure access for generations to come, and further the mission they share with one another and ITHAKA to improve access to knowledge worldwide.

"Research and learning increasingly take place online, so institutions need solutions that align their local collections to digital workflows, are interoperable with a variety of tools, and are actively preserved as technology advances," said Bruce Heterick, VP, Open Collections & Infrastructure at ITHAKA. "We created JSTOR and Portico to do exactly this for more than 100,000 journals and books held by libraries, and are excited to extend the use of this infrastructure to help institutions get their local digital collections more effectively into existing research and teaching workflows affordably, efficiently, and at scale."

The library community will have an opportunity to learn more about ITHAKA's infrastructure services and other important initiatives at booth #4834<https://about.jstor.org/l/ala/?utm_source=conference&utm_medium=pre-event-email&utm_campaign=ALA_2023> during the American Library Association's (ALA) 2023 annual conference in Chicago on June 22-27. All others can request more information online at about.jstor.org/advance<https://about.jstor.org/advance>.

Read the full press release<https://www.ithaka.org/news/new-services/>.

Best,
Heidi

Heidi McGregor
VP, Communications
ITHAKA | www.ithaka.org<http://www.ithaka.org/>

ITHAKA's mission is to improve access to knowledge and education for people around the world. We believe education is key to the well-being of individuals and society. Through our work, we make higher education and access to knowledge more affordable, improve outcomes for students and researchers, and preserve knowledge for future generations. Our services include: Constellate, Ithaka S+R, JSTOR/Artstor, and Portico. Learn more at www.ithaka.org.



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