Ithaka Harbors Explained

Type:501(c)(3) Not-for-profit
Key People:
Ithaka Harbors, Inc.
Founder:Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Location:151 East 61st Street New York, NY 10065
Products:JSTOR, Artstor
Revenue:$85,732,800 (2014)
Endowment:$1,435,601

Ithaka Harbors, Inc. is a US not-for-profit, the parent company of digital library website JSTOR, the digital preservation service Portico, and the research and consulting group Ithaka S+R. Its stated mission is to "help the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways".[3] Ithaka was founded in 2003 by Kevin M. Guthrie.[4] Ithaka's total revenue was $105 million in 2019, most of it ($79 million) from JSTOR service fees.[5]

History

JSTOR was founded in 1995 under the direction of current ITHAKA president Kevin M. Guthrie. Guthrie also served as the founding president of ITHAKA in 2004.[1] Both organizations were initially funded by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which at the time was led by William G. Bowen.[6]

The two organizations announced that they would merge in 2009 after years of working together closely.[7] The organizations stated that the merger was "a natural progression" and that they would work together to help "academic institutions use digital technology to enhance scholarship and teaching and reduce system-wide costs through collective action."[8]

Services

JSTOR

See main article: JSTOR. JSTOR is a major database of academic research materials, with content that includes books, journals, and primary sources.

Portico

Portico was created by JSTOR in 2002 as the Electronic-Archiving Initiative. It was transferred to ITHAKA in 2004. Portico operates as a "'dim' archive for e-journal content" that stores information from scholarly journals so it cannot be lost, an example being when the part of it housing the Graft: Organ and Cell Transplantation journal was "lit up" and became publicly accessible after access to that journal's website was removed by its publisher.[9] In 2019, Portico generated $6.3 million in revenue.

Ithaka S+R

Ithaka S+R is a research and consulting service that releases public research reports and offers consulting services to libraries, publishers, scholarly societies, universities, and other non-profit organizations.[10] Ithaka S+R conducts triennial surveys of faculty members and library directors in the United States.[11] [12] In 2019, Ithaka S+R generated $1.8 million in revenue.

Awards

The same year that Ithaka Harbors obtained Portico, the Library of Congress gave a $3 million NDIIPP grant to the company for it to "develop, test, and operate one or more electronic archives for electronic journals", along with providing "long-term access to those journals". The endeavor was known as the Portico Project.[13]

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services named Ithaka Harbors as one of the four recipients of their 2008 Digital Partnership grant awards. The company was chosen because of its Protecting Future Access Now: Developing a Prototype Preservation Model for Digital Books project, which is meant to be a "prototype preservation service that will provide a practical model for the preservation of digitized books."[14]

Ithaka Harbors received federal contract awards in 2010 and 2011. The former was $75,000 given by the US Department of Labor for their "Archived E-journal Collections".[15] A year later, the Department of the Army awarded $17,000 for collection additions of "books, maps and other publications".[16]

Notable trustees

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kevin M. Guthrie . Ithaka Harbors . January 13, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150219161158/http://www.ithaka.org/people/kevin-m-guthrie . February 19, 2015 . live . mdy-all .
  2. News: President Emeritus Honored . https://web.archive.org/web/20140921084751/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-302464696.html . dead . September 21, 2014 . . September 14, 2012 . January 19, 2013 . mdy-all .
  3. Web site: Our Mission. Ithaka. 13 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150109041626/http://www.ithaka.org/mission. 9 January 2015. live. dmy-all.
  4. Web site: Milestones in our history . Ithaka . 8 August 2018.
  5. Web site: Form 990 for period ending December 2019. Nonprofit Explorer . ProPublica. pdf.
  6. News: Staff writer. Staff writer. Bowen, William G.. January 1, 2006. Contemporary Authors. January 19, 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140610204045/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3481300052.html. June 10, 2014. mdy-all.
  7. Web site: JSTOR and Ithaka Merge. Info Today. 2 February 2009 . 2015-01-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20150410122508/http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/JSTOR-and-Ithaka-Merge-52456.asp. 2015-04-10. live.
  8. News: JSTOR, Ithaka join forces . Staff writer . Staff writer . https://web.archive.org/web/20140610204103/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-197106559.html . dead . June 10, 2014 . . April 1, 2009 . January 19, 2013 . mdy-all .
  9. News: Portico's "Dim" E-Archive Lights Up with Member Access to Graft . Andrew . Albanese . . December 5, 2007 . January 19, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150407171203/http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2008/03/ljarchives/porticos-dim-e-archive-lights-up/ . April 7, 2015 . dead . mdy-all .
  10. Web site: "Our Services". Ithaka S+R. 2015-01-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20150215010013/http://sr.ithaka.org/clientservices. 2015-02-15. live.
  11. News: Beyond eBooks. 13 March 2014. Inside Higher Ed. Straumsheim. Carl. 13 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150202044643/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/11/survey-university-libraries-finds-diversity-developing-institutional-type. 2 February 2015. live. dmy-all.
  12. News: Interesting Findings from Ithaka S&R's Latest Faculty Survey. 11 April 2013. Scholarly Kitchen. Anderson. Rick. 13 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150915073705/http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/04/11/interesting-findings-from-ithaka-srs-latest-faculty-survey/. 15 September 2015. live. dmy-all.
  13. Book: Library of Congress . Library of Congress . Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress . 2004 . January 19, 2013 . . 110 . 9780844411545 .
  14. News: National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute of Museum and Library Services award Advancing Knowledge Digital Partnership grants . https://web.archive.org/web/20140921094808/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1542341671.html . dead . September 21, 2014 . . August 26, 2008 . January 19, 2013 . mdy-all .
  15. News: Contract Award: Ithaka Harbors Wins Federal Contract for "Archived E-journal Collections" . https://web.archive.org/web/20140921093301/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2112972081.html . dead . September 21, 2014 . . August 18, 2010 . January 19, 2013 . mdy-all .
  16. News: Contract Award: Ithaka Harbors Wins Federal Modification Contract for Books, Maps and Other Publications . https://web.archive.org/web/20140921093302/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2545794021.html . dead . September 21, 2014 . . December 23, 2011 . January 19, 2013 . mdy-all .

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