University of California Libraries Shared Print Program
JSTOR Project

JSTOR Project Introduction

JSTOR Project Staff Photo
WELCOME to the UC Libraries/JSTOR Paper Repository Public Information site. In October, 2004, the University of California Libraries and JSTOR (Journal Storage) contracted to create a paper repository of over 14,000,000 pages (500+ titles) from journal runs across all UC campuses.

This "dim" archive (accessible to only UC faculty, staff, students and JSTOR) has one ideal & complete set of every contract JSTOR title.

The Repository benefits both JSTOR in terms of access to a complete print backfile, and UC in terms of the cost and space savings from no longer maintaining several copies of low-use print volumes.

The project plan was designed in early 2005, and was completed April 2007.

A second contract has been negotiated to add approximately 5,000,000 new pages (over 270 new titles) to the archive.


Official JSTOR Website
Return to SRLF Website

Recent News

JSTOR Audit June 2008 99.95%
JSTOR conducted an audit of the SRLF JSTOR archive on June 2nd and 3rd 2008. The audit team found the Archive in compliance with all requirements and found that we had an accuracy rate of 99.95% (well above the required 98%).

In an e-mail John Kiplinger JSTOR Director of Production wrote "I want to congratulate the staff on the JSTOR paper repository project on another very impressive audit result. To be honest, I am not surprised. The quality of the validation work coming out of the project has been top notch, and this just reiterates that. Whereas I may not be surprised by the quality of the work, I am still very impressed by it. Many, many thanks to all the staff at your end involved with this!"



March 2007 Official JSTOR Audit 99.8%
JSTOR staff audited the UC Libraries JSTOR Archive project in March of 2007. The result was an accuracy rate of 99.8%. The complete report will be available soon in the "Project Updates" of the "Project Info" section.
Project Updates

New Search screen added
The "Search Screen" connected to the tab above has been updated to reflect the second Phase of the UC/JSTOR archive project.

When you click on the tab you will be taken to the default setting of just the titles include in the "Phase 2" project. These are over 270 titles of new material that will be validated on a page by page basis and added to the Archive.

If you want to look at the "Phase 1" title list (the over 500 titles already added to the archive) just click on the link "Phase 1 Titles". To view all the titles either already included or to be included (Phase 1 and Phase 2) just click on the link "All Titles"

Phase 1 Titles

Moving Wall to keep moving
UC and JSTOR will continue to update the archive to include any new issues added to the JSTOR on-line catalog for any titles from either Phase 1 or Phase 2 contained in the archive.


Journal Donations to UCL/JSTOR Project Requested
If anyone is interested in contributing clean, non-reprint journals to this project, please direct all inquires to John Doing. Clicking on SEARCH above will reveal a list of titles, and from there potential donors can check to see if particular volumes and issues have already been validated (click on the title, then note if the validated box is checked or not). John's contact information can be found below.
Contact Info

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