University System Gains Access to a Trusted Archive of Scholarly Research Now Available to Students and FacultyCHARLES TOWN, W.Va., Dec 15, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- American
Public University System (APUS) now has access to the complete
backfiles of 278 leading scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and
general sciences by becoming a member of JSTOR. JSTOR was founded in
1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. APUS, an online
university system that educates more than 50,000 adult learners
worldwide, now participates in Arts & Sciences II and Arts & Sciences
III collections. Combined, the collections provide access to more than 7
million digitized journal pages.
"The library at APUS has been eagerly waiting to enter the JSTOR
domain," said Fred Stielow, APUS's Dean of Libraries & Educational
Materials. "JSTOR is known for helping to preserve scholarly materials
and provides a key component to sustainable access for our institution."
JSTOR currently contains over 1,000 leading academic journals across the
humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs
and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus, more
than 35 million pages, is full-text searchable, with search term
highlighting, high-quality color and grayscale images, and links between
millions of citations and references.
The APUS Online Library already contains millions of pages of books and
scholarly articles licensed from the Deep Web along with trusted
selections from the free, or Open Web. The Library also has assembled a
growing collection of nearly 80,000 primarily electronic books as well
as departmental study portals, interlibrary loan, textbook/bookstore
resources and a tutorial center.
"We are delighted to welcome American Public University System as a
JSTOR participant," said Bruce Heterick, JSTOR's Vice President for
Outreach & Participation Services. "We expect that JSTOR will quickly
become an invaluable resource to the students and faculty at APUS, just
as it has for nearly every four-year higher education institution in the
United States, and in more than 6,000 institutions worldwide."
More than 6,000 non-profit educational and research institutions in 155
countries participate in JSTOR today, including nearly every 4-year
higher education institution in the United States. JSTOR is one of the
most widely recognized and heavily used online resources among faculty
and students globally. It is valued for its reliability, ease of use,
breadth of content, disciplinary coverage, and commitment to long-term
preservation.
American Public University System
American Public University System (APUS) includes American Public
University and American Military University and educates more than
50,000 adult learners worldwide. APUS's relevant curriculum,
affordability and flexibility helps working adults pursue degrees in
subjects ranging from homeland security to management and liberal
arts. For more information, visit www.apus.edu.
JSTOR
JSTOR (www.jstor.org)
is a preservation archive and research platform for the academic
community. Through JSTOR, faculty, researchers, and students are able to
discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted
digital archive of over 1,000 academic journals, as well as conference
proceedings, monographs, and other scholarly content. Nearly 6,000
libraries and cultural heritage institutions and hundreds of the world's
leading publishers of scholarly literature participate in and support
JSTOR. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org),
a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital
technologies to advance scholarship and teaching in sustainable ways.
ITHAKA also includes two additional services - Ithaka S+R and Portico.
SOURCE: American Public University System (APUS)
American Public University System
Renee Williams Hockaday, 703-334-3868
rhockaday@apus.edu