‘Science’ Will End Link to JSTOR

Since JSTOR’s founding in 1994, the popular online archive of scholarly journals hadn’t had a single member publisher decide to walk away — until this month. But last week, JSTOR lost a journal — and not just any journal, but Science, the flagship publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an early adopter of the JSTOR approach.

In a statement, Science said that “our strategic planning must reflect a business environment that is in a constant state of transition, one that has recently seen dramatic technological and competitive changes.” More scientific societies are “digitizing and controlling their own content, and AAAS shares the belief that it is now time to assume the full responsibility for maintaining a complete electronic archive of its flagship publication.”

Source: Inside Higher Ed

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