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Afghanistan |
Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Haiti India Indonesia Iraq Kenya Laos Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mongolia Mozambique Myanmar Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria |
Pakistan Papua New Guinea Rwanda São Tomé e Príncipe Senegal Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia Sudan Tajikistan Tanzania Togo Uganda Uzbekistan Vietnam Western Samoa/ Samoa Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe |
In our June 2004 issue of JSTORNEWS, we highlighted our commitment to furthering JSTOR access in developing nations around the world. We reported the establishment of a 65% savings level on JSTOR fees for institutions in the sixty poorest countries, defined according to the 2002 World Bank Gross National Income statistics (see sidebar). Today, fifty-four institutions from thirteen of these countries have licensed one or more JSTOR collections. While institutions in these countries and our foundation partners that help fund much of their access have been pleased with this progress, their feedback has prompted us to do more.
At the beginning of this year, we announced that participating institutions in these nations, regardless of their size, will be able to gain access to all current JSTOR collections with a single Archive Capital Fee (ACF) of $5,000 and an Annual Access Fee (AAF) of $2,000. Under the previous fee structure, a medium-sized university in one of these countries would pay a one-time ACF of approximately $18,000 and an annual fee (AAF) of $7,000 for the same set of content. The savings with this new model are significant, and we hope they will lead to even greater participation in these countries. In addition, with the decreased ongoing financial commitment, the chances of long-term sustainability of the archive for these institutions may be greatly improved.
The benefit for students and faculty at institutions in these countries is tremendous. They will now secure access to the complete back runs of the more than 460 titles that comprise the Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, Complement, Ecology & Botany, and General Science collections. They will also be provided with new titles as part of JSTOR's upcoming Biological Sciences Collection.
Our partners in the foundation community share our excitement about this development and continue to see the value in funding institutions under this new model. We see evidence of this already. The Ford Foundation has announced this new model to their twenty-four JSTOR grantee institutions in India, and, with the projected savings the model will generate, they expect to be able to fund access for all collections and to bring two more institutions into the grant program. In addition, India's University Grants Commission (UGC) has used the new participation fees model as a catalyst to begin the participation process for approximately fifty institutions beyond those being funded by Ford. The Higher Education Commission in Pakistan is also extending access under the new model to over fifty institutions in Pakistan.
As our efforts in the developing world grow, we will continue to report on our progress. We have set an ambitious target to provide access to four hundred institutions in these countries over the next five years.
Last updated on September 8, 2006
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