ITHAKA, a
not-for-profit organisation helping the academic community use digital
technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research
and teaching in sustainable ways, and
Atypon®,
a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing
industry, jointly announced the move of the JSTOR digital library,
including its related primary source collections, from Atypon's
Literatum platform to a new technology platform created by ITHAKA.
Atypon and ITHAKA are working together to make the transition smooth for
the nearly 10,000 libraries and millions of people who use JSTOR every
day. Components of the new system are already live behind the scenes.
For instance, JSTOR search is now supported by the new ITHAKA
infrastructure.
The first major public release of the new platform was the November 2014
launch of JSTOR's primary source collections available at
www.aluka.org. The transition of the rest of the JSTOR site will continue throughout 2015.