Change. It can be painful to endure. It is perhaps even more difficult to embrace. And yet, is there anything more inevitable?

The articles in this issue of JSTORNEWS are all, in one form or another, about change: changing faculty attitudes toward new technologies and the possibilities now available to them; changes in the traditional relationships between faculty and librarians and the degree to which they can truly collaborate on the tasks of research and teaching; and, changes in the approach the community must take to preserve electronic information for future students and scholars.

At JSTOR, we are dedicated to embracing change - to remaking the organization to fit our environment. We recognize that our resource is dependent upon technology, and so our software infrastructure and data must evolve continuously if JSTOR content is to remain accessible. We know our internal processes and procedures must change to respond to our surroundings, as well. As the "moving walls" for the journals in JSTOR are beginning to overlap with the electronic content offered on publisher sites, we are faced with a new kind of "production," where in addition to digitizing paper volumes, we will also receive and archive the electronic data from publishers. This has always been our expectation, and is fully consistent with the mission of JSTOR. At a practical level, however, the resources, the tasks, and the approach for building the archive under those two scenarios are quite different. It is our objective to demonstrate one good e-archiving approach, recognizing that many approaches are needed if we are to protect today's electronic scholarship for tomorrow's researchers. It is a very important topic.

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Last updated on September 8, 2006