Hi everyone, for your info/interest, please find attached to this post a list of the 1295 new books added to JSTOR in March/April 2020.
For an ebook refresher, please join me (Sarah Polkinghorne) for a Spring Training session! I’m offering it twice: May 14 and May 19.
As you know, JSTOR provides us newly-published ebooks from many university presses from around the world. Nearly every week, JSTOR adds new books to their platform, with the catalogue records following within 7-10 days (at which time the UAL cataloguing team, aka the “bibebook” team, loads the records into our catalogue). This is a DDA (demand-driven acquisition) process, meaning that the book records are loaded into the catalogue, and then the final step, the purchase, is triggered when a book is used.
As always, the thing to keep in mind is that JSTOR DDA is only one of the processes by which new books are added to the general collection. There are also university presses that aren’t represented in our JSTOR collection because we buy their books in other ways.
With questions or comments, please contact us at csu@ualberta.ca, as always.