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Under JISC Banding the annual subscription prices for JSTOR are:

All prices shown exclude V.A.T.

For queries regarding prices and discounts, please contact Tanya Torres, Assistant Director for International Library Relations, participation@jstor.org.

JSTOR invoices JISC institutions based on the academic year. They will prorate the annual base fees for all collections in the first year of participation to reflect the number of months left in that year (i.e., April - July). However, JSTOR asks that you please list the full, non-prorated annual base fees for each collection on the Schedule 1 portion of the licence agreement.

Discounts in Effect

Arts & Sciences I Collection:

Existing Arts & Sciences I participants will receive the following discounts:

A 50% discount on the Business Collection fee.
A 30% discount on the Language & Literature Collection fee.
A 20% discount on the Arts & Sciences II Collection, Health & General
Science Collection and Ecology & Botany Collection fee.
A 74% discount on the Mathematics & Statistics Collection fee.
A 10% discount on the Biological Sciences Collection fee.

Arts & Sciences II Collection:

Existing Arts & Sciences II participants will receive the following discounts:

A 6% discount on the Mathematics & Statistics Collection fee.
A 10% discount on the Business Collection fee.

Arts & Sciences III Collection:

Institutions licensing the Arts & Sciences III Collection will pay the fees outlined in the table below except in the following instances:

Participants of the Arts & Sciences I and Language & Literature Collections will pay the Arts & Sciences III fee noted in the table below less the Language & Literature fee already paid for the current billing period. The Language & Literature Collection fee will be removed from the next billing period.

Music Collection participants will pay the Arts & Sciences III Collection fee noted in the table below less the Music Collection fee already paid for the current billing period. The Music Collection fee will be removed from the next billing period.

Arts & Sciences IV Collection:

Participants of the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will pay the fees outlined in the table below except in the following instances:

Business Collection participants licensing the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences IV fee noted in the table above. The Business Collection fee will then be reduced to 60%* beginning the next billing period to account for the 26 titles still available in the Business Collection but not the Arts & Sciences IV Collection.

Business and Arts & Sciences I participants licensing the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences IV fee noted in the table below. The Business Collection fee then will be reduced to 10%* beginning the next billing period to account for the 9 titles still available in the Business Collection but not the Arts & Sciences I or Arts & Sciences IV Collection.

Business and Arts & Sciences II participants licensing the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences IV fee noted in the table below. The Business Collection fee will then be reduced to 50%* beginning the next billing period to account for the 17 titles still available in the Business Collection but not the Arts & Sciences II or Arts & Sciences IV Collections.

Business, Arts & Sciences I and Arts & Sciences II participants licensing the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences IV fee noted in the table below. The Business Collection fee will then be removed from the next billing period since all Business titles will now be accessible via the Arts & Sciences I, II and IV.

Arts & Sciences V Collection:

Institutions licensing the Arts & Sciences V Collection will pay the fees outlined in the table above except in the following instances, while the collection is being built:

• In 2007/8 and 2008/9, participants of the Arts & Sciences V Collection will receive an 80% discount on the full base fee.
• In 2009/10, participants of the Arts & Sciences V Collection will receive a 40% discount on the full base fee.
• Beginning with 2010/11, the full base fee will be invoiced.

Please note that the annual invoice for this collection will reflect an additional discount, independent from the % Discount for Collection Overlap (noted in Schedule 1 above), in recognition of the fact and during such time this collection is not yet complete.

Arts & Sciences Complement:

Institutions must license at least one Arts & Sciences Collection to be eligible for participation in the Arts & Sciences Complement. Institutions licensing the Arts & Sciences Complement in combination with ANY two or more Arts & Sciences Collections will receive the following discounts:

One Arts & Sciences Collection: no discount.

Any two (2) Arts & Sciences Collections: 15% discount on the Arts
& Sciences Complement fee.

Any three (3) Arts & Sciences Collections: 30% discount on the
Arts & Sciences Complement fee.

All four (4) Arts & Sciences Collections: 50% discount on the Arts &
Sciences Complement fee.

Biological Sciences Collection:

Institutions may license the Biological Sciences Collection on its own, or with any combination of collections. Institutions currently participating in the Arts & Sciences I Collection and/ or Ecology & Botany Collection will receive a 10% discount to account for the overlap in journal titles.

Arts & Sciences I Collection: 10% discount.

Arts & Sciences I Collection and Ecology & Botany Collection: 10%
Discount.

Ecology & Botany participants adding the Biological Sciences Collection will pay the fees noted in the table below. The Ecology & Botany fee will then be removed from the next billing period since all Ecology & Botany titles will now be accessible via the Biological Sciences Collection.

Business II

Institutions may license the Business II Collection on its own, or with any combination of collections. Institutions currently participating in the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will receive a 10% discount to account for the overlap in journal titles.

Institutions currently participating in the Arts & Sciences IV Collection and Arts & Sciences Complement Collection will receive a 40% discount to account for the overlap in journal titles.

Institutions licensing the Business II Collection will pay the fees outlined in the table above except in the following instances, while the collection is being built:

• In 2007/8, participants of the Business II Collection will receive a 45% discount on the full base fee.
• Beginning with 2008/9, the full base fee will be invoiced.

Please note that the annual invoice for this collection will reflect an additional discount, independent from the % Discount for Collection Overlap (noted in Schedule 1 above), in recognition of the fact and during such time this collection is not yet complete.

For details of how to subscribe and the licence please go to the subscription page.

The agreement will run from 1st August 2007 to 31st July 2012. Institutions can subscribe at any time, but will be committed until the end of the agreement. In addition, please be assured that your access will remain uninterrupted during the renewal period.

For more information on the JISC Model Licence please see the  Guide to the Model Licence.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organisation in the US dedicated to helping the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technologies.*  JSTOR's mission is to: (1) build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly literature, and (2) dramatically improve access to these journals.  Through the development and enhancement of this searchable, interdisciplinary archive, JSTOR's objective is to help all participants in the scholarly community - libraries and publishers, faculty and students - to be more productive, while simultaneously reducing system-wide costs and increasing convenience.

Originally conceived as a project at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR began as an effort to ease the increasing problems faced by libraries seeking to provide adequate shelf space for the long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. Please note that JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.

Over 700 journals are currently online. JSTOR is an online archive of scholarly journals. Participants can choose from 14 collections, selecting any single, or combination of collections.

Title Lists for all 14 collections in JSTOR are available at: www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/collections.jsp.

For a full product description, please go to:  www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/index.jsp.

*Please note: JSTOR is a US company, and its privacy policy data is based on US rather than UK or EU law. Therefore institutions should familiarise themselves with the relevant policy at http://www.jstor.org/about/privacy.html .

JSTOR is geared towards the Graduate and Undergraduate levels.

JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections. These options are designed to provide flexibility for libraries and institutions to choose the sets of journals and collection growth paths that are most appropriate for their needs.

Participants in the Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and IV Collections and the Health & General Science Collection receive all the titles in the Business, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics, and Music Collections. Participants in the Biological Sciences Collection receive all the titles in the Ecology & Botany Collection. Participants who have all six Arts & Sciences Collections, the Health & General Science Collection, the Biological Sciences Collection, and the Business II Collection have access to all content currently available in the JSTOR archive.

Publishers Selection
Policy

The titles included in JSTOR have been selected based on the following criteria: the number of institutional subscribers for which a journal has citation analysis, recommendations from experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been published.

JSTOR supports internal reference linking, inbound linking from linking partners, as well as outbound linking to current issues for many titles through the use of the SICI standard.
For more information, please go to: www.jstor.org/page/info/resources/index.jsp

JSTOR creates and enters new cataloging records or updates existing cataloging records in OCLC for each title, current or previous, in the archive. The records include the URL for each title in the 856 MARC field.

JSTOR does not have local copies of these records, and due to a July 2003 revision to the CONSER cataloging standards, it is no longer possible to download them as a group from OCLC.

Currently, the only way to locate all the cataloging records for each title in a JSTOR collection is to conduct a title-by-title search.

As some of our participating institutions have chosen to implement a metasearch engine for their users, we recognized the need to provide both a stable, standardized method for querying the JSTOR archive and also a manner of returning results that could be easily utilized by a metasearch program. To accomplish this, we have chosen the Search and Retrieve URL (SRU) Service as the basis for the JSTOR XML Gateway.

For more information, see: www.jstor.org/page/info/resources/linking/meta.jsp

Full-text searching is available. Institutions that participate in multiple collections may search across them together.

JSTOR is undertaking to offer COUNTER-compliant reports as part of a much larger usage statistics development project that will be ongoing through 2006. We expect that when they become available, the JSTOR COUNTER reports will adhere to Release 2 of the Code of Practice (expected to become the definitive version in January 2007).

Users may set certain preferences to personalize their use of JSTOR.

Accessibility

It is a priority for JSTOR to ensure that their content is available and accessible to all users. In order to increase the accessibility of the articles within JSTOR, they now offer users the ability to download articles in TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) as well as PDF and PostScript formats. As a not-for-profit organisation with the mission to act as a trusted archive, JSTOR is in a unique position with regard to making content accessible. Rather than displaying the raw text for articles, JSTOR displays and delivers page images in order to provide a faithful replication of the original print journals. It is through this faithful replication in image format that JSTOR fulfill their not-for-profit mission to function as an electronic archive that can be used as a substitute for the original print material. Although JSTOR have created a full text index for search purposes, JSTOR are unable to display or deliver it to users, because while it is accurate for search purposes, it is not designed for use in connection with assistive technology.

For more information see: www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/accessibility.jsp.

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