With each issue of JSTORNEWS, it feels increasingly difficult to select the most important stories to cover, because there are so many exciting developments to share. We turn to our mission to guide us, choosing stories that demonstrate our commitment to building and broadening access to a trusted electronic archive.

One such exciting and challenging new development is the recent release of our linking workspace, which offers a set of tools to support the generation of third-party links to the full-text articles in JSTOR. These tools can be used for a variety of purposes by individual faculty, participating libraries and publishers, as well as other electronic resource providers. It is our hope that these tools will prove useful to these constituencies and that they will assist in making it as easy as possible for students and researchers to retrieve articles that are of interest to them.

We are also pleased to include an article providing background on our collaborative effort with the Center for Research Libraries. This program, which we are calling the JSTOR Deposit Program, was launched in May 2000. The goal is to establish the first of what we expect will be a number of paper repositories comprised of the complete runs of JSTOR journals. We are excited about this program and look forward to working with other libraries on similar efforts in the future. JSTOR also plans to maintain its own copy of all journals included in the archive. These copies will provide a further layer of backup and also serve as a resource in case consultation with the originals proves necessary or there is a need to rescan all or parts of the journals. Holding a complete run is consistent with our mission to serve as a trusted archive for the scholarly community.

As always, I hope to hear your ideas, thoughts, or criticisms of our work. We are constantly striving to be better!

Kevin M. Guthrie

Last updated on September 8, 2006