As part of our continuing efforts to make access to the JSTOR archive as convenient as possible, we are working with other resource providers in the library community to facilitate linking from their resources into the archive. As linking is implemented with new partners and is made publicly available, we intend to announce these new implementations to our participants via email and JSTORNEWS. We are pleased to announce that article-level linking into JSTOR is now available from several new linking partners:

• Endeavor - LinkFinderPlus
• Gale - Literature Resource Center w/MLA International Bibliography add-on;
  MLA International Bibliography via InfoTrac
• H.W. Wilson - WilsonWeb
• Innovative Interfaces (III) - WebBridge
• Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
• Serials Solutions - ArticleLinker

Our participants have made it clear that continuing these linking efforts is important. Based on the linking statistics we have reviewed through August 31, almost 11% of the total articles viewed in JSTOR are the direct result of links from our linking partners. Already in 2003 we have seen some 1.6 million links to the JSTOR archive from participating publishers, participating libraries, faculty, and other content providers. As we have indicated previously, quality continues to be a concern as these article-level links proliferate. Just over 91% of the linking requests received by JSTOR include valid - or properly formatted - links. These are links which take the user directly to the article requested. We believe that the percentage of valid links needs to improve and we are developing strategies, in coordination with our linking partners, to review the invalid links received by JSTOR and to discern the possible causes.

Through August 31, the resources sending the largest number of article-level links to JSTOR were:

Resource	Article-level Links
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)	210,605
ABC-CLIO	178,171
History Cooperative	119,837
MathSciNet	67,896

For a complete list of linking partners, contact information, and implementation instructions, please visit our website at: http://www.jstor.org/resources/linking.partners.html

As a reminder, participating libraries, publishers, and faculty can get further information about creating article-level links to JSTOR by visiting our website at: http://makealink.jstor.org or by contacting us via email: support@jstor.org

Last updated on September 8, 2006