Ithaka Harbors
Founded | 1995 |
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Founder | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
Type | 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit |
Location |
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Coordinates | 40°45′48″N 73°57′59″W / 40.76333°N 73.96639°W |
Products | JSTOR, Artstor |
Key people |
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Revenue | $85,732,800 (2014) |
Endowment | $1,435,601 [citation needed] |
Website | www |
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
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
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.[5]
Awards
The same year that Ithaka Harbors obtained Portico, the
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
Notable trustees
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- Henry S. Bienen, former president of Northwestern University
- William G. Bowen, President Emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, former president of Princeton
- Ira Fuchs, former vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Catharine Bond Hill, President of Vassar College
- Alexandra W. Logue, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost of the City University of New York (CUNY)
- Judith Shapiro, former President of Barnard College
- Stephen M. Stigler, Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago.
- Charles M. Vest, former President of the MIT
References
- ^ a b "Kevin M. Guthrie". Ithaka Harbors. Archived from the original on February 19, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
- US Federal News. September 14, 2012. Archived from the originalon September 21, 2014. Retrieved January 19, 2013. (subscription required)
- ^ "Our Mission". Ithaka. Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ^ "Milestones in our history". Ithaka. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- ^ a b c "Form 990 for period ending December 2019" (pdf). Nonprofit Explorer. ProPublica.
- ^ Staff writer (January 1, 2006). "Bowen, William G." Contemporary Authors. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved January 19, 2013. (subscription required)
- ^ "JSTOR and Ithaka Merge". Info Today. 2 February 2009. Archived from the original on 2015-04-10. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
- ^ Staff writer (April 1, 2009). "JSTOR, Ithaka join forces". Information Today. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved January 19, 2013. (subscription required)
- ^ Albanese, Andrew (December 5, 2007). "Portico's "Dim" E-Archive Lights Up with Member Access to Graft". Library Journal. Archived from the original on April 7, 2015. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
- ^ ""Our Services"". Ithaka S+R. Archived from the original on 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
- ^ Straumsheim, Carl (13 March 2014). "Beyond eBooks". Inside Higher Ed. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ^ Anderson, Rick (11 April 2013). "Interesting Findings from Ithaka S&R's Latest Faculty Survey". Scholarly Kitchen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ISBN 9780844411545. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
- US Federal News. August 26, 2008. Archived from the originalon September 21, 2014. Retrieved January 19, 2013. (subscription required)
- US Federal News. August 18, 2010. Archived from the originalon September 21, 2014. Retrieved January 19, 2013. (subscription required)
- US Federal News. December 23, 2011. Archived from the originalon September 21, 2014. Retrieved January 19, 2013. (subscription required)