In late September, JSTOR announced its third multi-disciplinary collection - Arts & Sciences III - which focuses on Arts and Culture. When the collection is complete in 2005, scholars will have access to over 120 titles in a variety of disciplines, including some new in JSTOR, such as Art, Art History, Architecture, Architectural History, Cultural Studies, Film, Folklore, Performing Arts, and Religion. Some of these titles represent over one hundred years of scholarly publishing, and through preservation in the JSTOR archive, valuable material from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be assured of long-term care for current and future generations of scholars.

The Arts & Sciences III Collection includes 33 of the titles already available in the stand-alone Language & Literature Collection¹, as well as the 31 titles in the recently released Music Collection. By including these titles in Arts & Sciences III (http://www.jstor.org/about/asIII.list.html), JSTOR hopes to provide a useful collection development path for participants in the discipline-specific collections while also offering flexibility for librarians to choose the smaller collections most appropriate to the needs of their institution.

The initial release of Arts & Sciences III is comprised of 71 titles, including the aforementioned titles in Language & Literature (33) and Music (31), as well as seven new Art, Art History, Architecture, and Architectural History titles. As a result of using a new composite imaging process, users are able to view high-quality color and gray-scale images incorporated directly into the online journal pages, capturing the "look and feel" of the original print issues. As already noted, musicologists will have access to an international selection of titles dedicated to scholarly research and theory in the field of music. The Language & Literature titles span the literary cultures of many different countries, contain articles in several languages, and offer researchers access to early book reviews for seminal works, original poetry, and important literary criticism.

Arts & Sciences III mirrors the academic trend toward multi- and inter-disciplinary studies. For example, a historian studying a particular region will be able to access journals which deal with many aspects of social history - Music, Literature, Performing Arts, and Religion. A graduate student in Art History will be able to search for articles which highlight both the cultural and artistic context of a particular school or specific artwork.

We are very excited about the Arts & Sciences III Collection and look forward to its release over the next two years. For more information, please contact:

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¹ Arts & Sciences III does not include the 13 Language & Literature titles that are already available in the Arts & Sciences I Collection.

Last updated on September 8, 2006