Ithaka Harbors

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. Both organizations were initially funded by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which at the time was led by William G. Bowen.{{cite news|author=Staff writer|author-link=Staff writer|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3481300052.html|title=Bowen, William G.|date=January 1, 2006|newspaper=Contemporary Authors|access-date=January 19, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610204045/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3481300052.html|archive-date=June 10, 2014|df=mdy-all}} {{subscription required}}

The two organizations announced that they would merge in 2009 after years of working together closely.{{cite web|url=http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/JSTOR-and-Ithaka-Merge-52456.asp|website=Info Today|title=JSTOR and Ithaka Merge|date=2 February 2009 |access-date=2015-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410122508/http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/JSTOR-and-Ithaka-Merge-52456.asp|archive-date=2015-04-10|url-status=live}}

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."{{cite news |title=JSTOR, Ithaka join forces |author=Staff writer |author-link=Staff writer |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-197106559.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610204103/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-197106559.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 10, 2014 |newspaper=Information Today |date=April 1, 2009 |access-date=January 19, 2013 |df=mdy-all }} {{subscription required}}

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

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.{{cite news |title=Portico's "Dim" E-Archive Lights Up with Member Access to Graft |first=Andrew |last=Albanese |url=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2008/03/ljarchives/porticos-dim-e-archive-lights-up/ |newspaper=Library Journal |date=December 5, 2007 |access-date=January 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407171203/http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2008/03/ljarchives/porticos-dim-e-archive-lights-up/ |archive-date=April 7, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} In 2019, Portico generated $6.3 million in revenue.

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.sr.ithaka.org/clientservices|title="Our Services"|publisher=Ithaka S+R|access-date=2015-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215010013/http://sr.ithaka.org/clientservices|archive-date=2015-02-15|url-status=live}} Ithaka S+R conducts triennial surveys of faculty members and library directors in the United States.{{cite news|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/11/survey-university-libraries-finds-diversity-developing-institutional-type|title=Beyond eBooks|date=13 March 2014|publisher=Inside Higher Ed|last1=Straumsheim|first1=Carl|access-date=13 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202044643/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/11/survey-university-libraries-finds-diversity-developing-institutional-type|archive-date=2 February 2015|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}{{cite news|url=http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/04/11/interesting-findings-from-ithaka-srs-latest-faculty-survey/|title=Interesting Findings from Ithaka S&R's Latest Faculty Survey|date=11 April 2013|publisher=Scholarly Kitchen|last1=Anderson|first1=Rick|access-date=13 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915073705/http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/04/11/interesting-findings-from-ithaka-srs-latest-faculty-survey/|archive-date=15 September 2015|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} In 2019, Ithaka S+R generated $1.8 million in revenue.

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.{{cite book |last=Library of Congress |author-link=Library of Congress |title=Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress |year=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AtvgAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Ithaka+Harbors%22 |access-date=January 19, 2013 |publisher=Library of Congress |page=110 |isbn=9780844411545 }}

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."{{cite news |title=National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute of Museum and Library Services award Advancing Knowledge Digital Partnership grants |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1542341671.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921094808/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1542341671.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 21, 2014 |newspaper=US Federal News |date=August 26, 2008 |access-date=January 19, 2013 |df=mdy-all }} {{subscription required}}

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".{{cite news |title=Contract Award: Ithaka Harbors Wins Federal Contract for "Archived E-journal Collections" |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2112972081.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921093301/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2112972081.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 21, 2014 |newspaper=US Federal News |date=August 18, 2010 |access-date=January 19, 2013 |df=mdy-all }} {{subscription required}} A year later, the Department of the Army awarded $17,000 for collection additions of "books, maps and other publications".{{cite news |title=Contract Award: Ithaka Harbors Wins Federal Modification Contract for Books, Maps and Other Publications |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2545794021.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921093302/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2545794021.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 21, 2014 |newspaper=US Federal News |date=December 23, 2011 |access-date=January 19, 2013 |df=mdy-all }} {{subscription required}}

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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

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• {{Official website|https://www.ithaka.org/}}
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