Received: from WUVMD.Wustl.Edu (wuvmd.wustl.edu [128.252.142.2]) by library.wustl.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA22126; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:40:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU by WUVMD.Wustl.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with BSMTP id 1974; Mon, 02 Feb 98 16:46:50 CST Received: from WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@WUVMD) by WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 2600; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:46:50 -0600 Received: from WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU by WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8c) with spool id 0474 for SLRLN-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:46:49 -0600 Received: from WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU by WUVMD (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 9165; Mon, 02 Feb 98 16:46:31 CST Received: from WUVMD (NJE origin SMTP@WUVMD) by WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 2598; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:46:31 -0600 Received: from rose.mobot.org by WUVMD.Wustl.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with TCP; Mon, 02 Feb 98 16:46:30 CST Received: from lehmann.mobot.org by rose.mobot.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA02717; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:48:09 -0600 Received: from LEHMANN/SpoolDir by lehmann.mobot.org (Mercury 1.21); 2 Feb 98 16:48:09 +0600 Received: from SpoolDir by LEHMANN (Mercury 1.21); 2 Feb 98 16:48:03 +0600 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.54) Message-ID: <17FEF20F9B@lehmann.mobot.org> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:47:58 CST6CDT Reply-To: Saint Louis Regional Library Network Discussion and Announcements <SLRLN-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU> Sender: Saint Louis Regional Library Network Discussion and Announcements <SLRLN-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU> From: Connie Wolf <cwolf%LEHMANN.MOBOT.ORG@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU> Organization: Missouri Botanical Garden Subject: JSTOR Update Comments: To: SLA_ARCH@mail.wustl.edu To: SLRLN-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU
Dear Colleagues:
I composed this message for our botanical librarians' group, and thought you
all might be interested as well since JSTOR works across a broad spectrum of
titles. My guess is that some local librarians already participate in JSTOR.
If so, I would appreciate hearing from you about your experiences to broaden my
own knowledge of it. tks!
JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization that has developed a completely
browsable, searchable and retrievable system for providing access to
core scholarly journals, will offer a cluster of botanical and
ecological journals as part of its growing database. This endeavor,
which will be accomplished through a collaboration with the Ecological
Society of America, is being undertaken with the support of The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation.
Dr. Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and John
Reed, Director of The New York Botanical Garden Library, will serve as
members of an Advisory Committee for the Ecological Society of America to
help oversee this project. The Advisory Committee will provide guidance
as to which journals will be invited to become part of the JSTOR archive,
and to help the ESA plan a strategy to encourage journals to participate
in the project. The work of the Committee is expected to be conducted
over the next four to six months.
The JSTOR database, which was first made available to academic libraries
on January 1, 1997, now has more than 250 libraries as participants. The
database includes over 2 million pages in a range of academic disciplines
in the humanities, social sciences and the sciences. The ESA's three
journals, Ecology, Ecological Monographs, and Ecological Applications, are
included in the JSTOR collection. For additional information, consult the
JSTOR Webpage: http://www.jstor.org.
Connie Wolf Phone: (314) 577-5156
Librarian Fax: (314) 577-9590
Missouri Botanical Garden Email: wolf@mobot.org
4344 Shaw Blvd. URL:http:/www.mobot.org/mobot/molib/
St. Louis, MO. 63110
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