Publishers cannot remove content once it is on the JSTOR platform. If a publisher decides to withdraw a title from the platform--which, according to this JSTOR Fact Sheet, has happened 6 times in 20 years--the publisher stops sending new content for the withdrawn title. Libraries that had licensed a collection that contained the content prior to the publisher's decision to withdraw continue to have access rights to that content. However, any library that licenses the collection after the withdrawal will not have access to the content.

You do have to continue to pay the annual access fee to maintain access to the JSTOR content, so that is an important consideration when making a decision to withdraw the print volumes.

Ithaka has created a decision support tool to help libraries decide what journals to withdraw.

-Kathleen

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Kathleen M. Folger, Electronic Resources Officer
University of Michigan Library
312 Hatcher North
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Fazio, Patricia <Patricia.Fazio@stockton.edu> wrote:

I don't know about the image quality, but you may want to check that the content will always be there in JStor before discarding journals that are essential. Awhile back, content was available at the will of the publisher.

Patricia Fazio

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To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Weeding of Print Titles in JSTOR Archives Products

We have been routinely weeding anything that is in JSTOR Archives packages for several years now, regardless of subject or the presence of pictures or music. We have not had any complaints from faculty from any department.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Barbara Pope <bpope@pittstate.edu> wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> We subscribe to several of the JSTOR Archives packages and have done
> considerable amount of weeding of our print and microfilm based on our
> JSTOR Archives access. I have been hesitant to weed anything that is
> an art journal or others that might have pictures, illustrations, or music in them.
> Has anyone gotten a handle on how good the images present in the print
> journal look compared to the same in the JSTOR content? Have any
> faculty at your institutions been resistant to weeding such journals
> from the collection? I am going to compare some issues that have
> pictures, illustrations, or music and compare them, but I also wanted
> to get a feel for what other institutions are doing.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Barbara M. Pope, MALS
> Periodicals/Reference Librarian
> Axe Library
> Pittsburg State University
> 1701 S. Broadway
> Pittsburg KS 66672
> 620-235-4884
> bpope@pittstate.edu
>
>
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