Books at JSTOR Adds Four New Academic Presses

Four more academic publishers in the United States are planning to bring their scholarly book content online at JSTOR, bringing the total number of presses in a partnership with JSTOR to 8, including Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, Minnesota, North Carolina, Princeton, Yale, University of California, Columbia and Cornell.


JSTOR has provided online access to a huge variety of high quality scholarship in many disciplines since 1995. Books will be available in spring 2012 and will be preserved in Portico, a leading digital preservation service for the scholarly community.



Read the full press release: JSTOR Books



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NYTimes: Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit

This recent New York Times article provides a nice overview of some of the problems associated with preserving digital materials:  Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit