Expanding ITHAKA’s impact: 2023 year in review - ITHAKA

"At ITHAKA, we are dedicated to improving access to knowledge and education for people around the world, and it is a privilege to pursue this mission with our broad community of librarians, publishers, educators, administrators, funders, researchers, and students. Collaborating with all of you has been an incredibly rewarding journey, and we couldn’t be more grateful for your engagement and support.

We’re pleased to share an update on our progress in 2023. With your help, we achieved significant milestones:

Making more content universally accessible

• JSTOR Access in Prison: Incarcerated students at 1,000 prisons across the United States as well as Australia, the British Virgin Islands, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Morocco, and the United Kingdom now have full access to JSTOR’s archival collections.
• Path to Open: Forty-two presses and 87 libraries now support our new pilot to enable sustainable, open access publishing of diverse scholarly books—and the first 100 titles are now live.
• A cost-effective new fee model: More than 1,700 libraries have expanded their holdings through a new model that provides comprehensive access to JSTOR archival journals and primary sources.
• JSTOR- and Portico-based infrastructure services: A total of 350 libraries are now cataloging, sharing, and preserving 2,500 special collections, including audio and video, through our digital infrastructure—amplifying the reach of this content and ensuring its affordable long-term management and preservation...."