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Collection Management has licensed the JSTOR Arts & Sciences X Collection and the Sage Humanities and Social Sciences journal backfile. JSTOR A&S X contains over 125 titles in Business, Sociology, Economics, Education, Finance, History of Science Technology, and Medicine, and Public Policy & Administration. Some notable titles include e-Service Journal, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Journal of Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, Mathematics Teacher, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Spectrum: The Journal of Black Men, and Transportation Journal. This JSTOR collection marks our 11th JSTOR package acquisition, meaning that University Libraries has become a Sustaining Member of JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization concerned with digital archives and preservation. Sustaining members earn a 25% discount on the archive capital and annual access fees on any future acquisitions.
Sage HSS offers 285 titles with over 424,000 individual articles. Coverage goes back to Vol. 1, issue 1 for each included title. Some highly ranked titles included the backfile are Group & Organization Management, Organization Studies, Journal of Teacher Education, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, School Psychology International, Politics & Society, Communication Research, Journal of Peace Research, Progress in Human Geography, Progress in Physical Geography, and The Holocene.
As part of an effort to purchase more ebooks in STEM disciplines, VIVA has added 22 Elsevier ebook subject collections within science and technology and also in the health sciences. These titles are part of their 2013 frontlist. Currently, 158 such ebooks are available to us, but that number should grow rapidly over the next two years.