The Central European University Press , commonly known as the CEU Press , abbreviated as CEUP , is an academic publisher with close connections to the Central European University . It is located in Budapest and New York City .
37-635: The CEU Press was established in 1993, following the establishment of the Central European University in 1991. Its language of publication is English. As of 2024, the CEU Press has 470 books available on JSTOR . The main topics of the CEU Press include political philosophy , open society , history , jurisprudence , nationalism studies , human rights , conflict resolution , gender studies , Jewish studies , economics , medieval studies , literature , and international relations . Originally,
74-427: A broader audience. Posted articles are generally based on JSTOR entries, and some entries provide the backstory to current events. Reveal Digital is a JSTOR-hosted collection of documents produced by or about underground, marginalized and dissenting 20th century communities. Reveal Digital's open access content includes zines, prison newspapers, AIDS art, student-movement documents, black civil rights materials, and
111-675: A mirror website at the University of Manchester to make the JSTOR database available to over 20 higher education institutions in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded JSTOR initially. Until January 2009, JSTOR operated as an independent, self-sustaining nonprofit organization with offices in New York City and in Ann Arbor, Michigan . Then JSTOR merged with
148-562: A robust nationwide network like NSFNET. BITNET, with Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem (RSCS) and the Network Job Entry (NJE) network protocol , was used for the huge IBM internal network known as VNET . BITNET links originally ran at 9600 bit/s. The BITNET protocols were eventually ported to non-IBM mainframe operating systems , and became particularly widely implemented under VAX/VMS , in addition to DECnet . BITNET featured email and LISTSERV software, but predated
185-532: A substantial portion of JSTOR's collection of academic journal articles. When the bulk-download was discovered, a video camera was placed in the room to film the mysterious visitor and the relevant computer was left untouched. Once video was captured of the visitor, the download was stopped and Swartz was identified. Rather than pursue a civil lawsuit against him, in June 2011 JSTOR reached a settlement wherein Swartz surrendered
222-559: A white supremacy archive. JSTOR is licensed mainly to academic institutions, public libraries, research institutions, museums, and schools. More than 7,000 institutions in more than 150 countries have access. JSTOR has been running a pilot program of allowing subscribing institutions to provide access to their alumni, in addition to current students and staff. The Alumni Access Program officially launched in January 2013. Individual subscriptions also are available to certain journal titles through
259-568: Is available in addition to the main site. JSTOR Plant Science provides access to content such as plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials and aimed at those researching, teaching, or studying botany, biology, ecology, environmental, and conservation studies. The materials on JSTOR Plant Science are contributed through the Global Plants Initiative (GPI) and are accessible only to JSTOR and GPI members. Two partner networks are contributing to this:
296-607: Is conducting a pilot program with Misplaced Pages , whereby established editors are given reading privileges through the Misplaced Pages Library , as with a university library. In 2012, JSTOR users performed nearly 152 million searches, with more than 113 million article views and 73.5 million article downloads. JSTOR has been used as a resource for linguistics research to investigate trends in language use over time and also to analyze gender differences and inequities in scholarly publishing, revealing that in certain fields, men predominate in
333-649: Is in the public domain, it can always be provided for free". In January 2012, JSTOR started a pilot program, "Register & Read", offering limited no-cost access (not open access ) to archived articles for individuals who register for the service. At the conclusion of the pilot, in January 2013, JSTOR expanded Register & Read from an initial 76 publishers to include about 1,200 journals from over 700 publishers. Registered readers may read up to six articles online every calendar month, but may not print or download PDFs. In 2013, more than 8,000 institutions in more than 160 countries had access to JSTOR. As of 2014, JSTOR
370-419: Is uniquely identified by an integer value, starting at 1 , which is used to create a stable URL . In addition to the main site, the JSTOR labs group operates an open service that allows access to the contents of the archives for the purposes of corpus analysis at its Data for Research service. This site offers a search facility with graphical indication of the article coverage and loose integration into
407-456: The World Wide Web , the common use of FTP , and Gopher . Gateways for the lists made them available on Usenet . BITNET also supported interactive transmission of files and messages to other users. A gateway service called TRICKLE enabled users to request files from Internet FTP servers in 64 Kb UUencoded chunks. The Interchat Relay Network , popularly known as Bitnet Relay , was
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#1732855301058444-696: The African Plants Initiative, which focuses on plants from Africa, and the Latin American Plants Initiative, which contributes plants from Latin America. JSTOR launched its Books at JSTOR program in November 2012, adding 15,000 current and backlist books to its site. The books are linked with reviews and from citations in journal articles. In September 2014, JSTOR launched JSTOR Daily , an online magazine meant to bring academic research to
481-543: The CEU Press announced that it is transitioning to an open access monograph programme through its new library subscription membership initiative, Opening the Future. In 2022, CEU Press announced that nine University of California campuses have signed up through the California Digital Library to their Opening the Future collective funding programs and would receive unlimited, perpetual access to curated selections of
518-742: The CEU Press' backlists. The CEU Press is a member of the Association of European University Presses and Association of University Presses . It is working with the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs project. JSTOR JSTOR ( / ˈ dʒ eɪ s t ɔːr / JAY -stor ; short for Journal Storage ) is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources founded in 1994. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in
555-532: The United States, Europe or Israel to a single server running in France. In 1996, CREN ended their support for BITNET. The individual nodes were free to keep their phone lines up as long as they wished, but as nodes dropped out, the network splintered into parts that were inaccessible from each other. As of 2007, BITNET has essentially ceased operation. However, a successor, BITNET II, which transmits information via
592-413: The United States, and before 1870 in other countries. JSTOR stated that it had been working on making this material free for some time. The Swartz controversy and Greg Maxwell's protest torrent of the same content led JSTOR to "press ahead" with the initiative. As of 2017 , JSTOR does not have plans to extend it to other public domain content, stating that "We do not believe that just because something
629-408: The country using TCP/IP. Another was a network of regional computer networks that linked up universities in different parts of the country. In 1981, universities came together to form BITNET, which allowed thousands of new users to experience innovations such as email and file transfers for the first time. All of these new networks showed the possibilities of computer networks and helped stoke demand for
666-643: The current volume of the journal and the latest volume available on JSTOR. This time period is specified by agreement between JSTOR and the publisher of the journal, which usually is three to five years. Publishers may request that the period of a "moving wall" be changed or request discontinuation of coverage. Formerly, publishers also could request that the "moving wall" be changed to a "fixed wall"—a specified date after which JSTOR would not add new volumes to its database. As of November 2010 , "fixed wall" agreements were still in effect with three publishers of 29 journals made available online through sites controlled by
703-478: The downloaded data. The following month, federal authorities charged Swartz with several data theft –related crimes, including wire fraud , computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer , and recklessly damaging a protected computer. Prosecutors in the case claimed that Swartz acted with the intention of making the papers available on P2P file-sharing sites . Swartz surrendered to authorities, pleaded not guilty to all counts, and
740-701: The fall of 1987 are known to still be transmitting. They are the Electronic Air and SCUP Email News (formerly SCUP Bitnet News). BITNET's eligibility requirements limited exchange with commercial entities, including IBM itself, which made technical assistance and bug fixes difficult. This became a particular problem when trying to communicate on heterogeneous networks with graphical workstation vendors such as Silicon Graphics . At its zenith around 1991, BITNET extended to almost 500 organizations and 3,000 nodes, all educational institutions. It spanned North America (in Canada it
777-469: The humanities and social sciences. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals. Most access is by subscription but some of the site is public domain , and open access content is available free of charge. William G. Bowen , president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988, founded JSTOR in 1994. JSTOR was originally conceived as a solution to one of the problems faced by libraries, especially research and university libraries , due to
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#1732855301058814-608: The increasing number of academic journals in existence. Most libraries found it prohibitively expensive in terms of cost and space to maintain a comprehensive collection of journals. By digitizing many journal titles, JSTOR allowed libraries to outsource the storage of journals with the confidence that they would remain available long-term. Online access and full-text searchability improved access dramatically. Bowen initially considered using CD-ROMs for distribution. However, Ira Fuchs , Princeton University's vice president for Computing and Information Technology, convinced Bowen that CD-ROM
851-518: The journal publisher. Every year, JSTOR blocks 150 million attempts by non-subscribers to read articles. Inquiries have been made about the possibility of making JSTOR open access . According to Harvard Law professor, JSTOR had been asked "how much would it cost to make this available to the whole world, how much would we need to pay." In late 2010 and early 2011, Aaron Swartz , an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, used MIT 's data network to bulk-download
888-400: The main JSTOR site. Users may create focused sets of articles and then request a dataset containing word and n -gram frequencies and basic metadata. They are notified when the dataset is ready and may download it in either XML or CSV formats. The service does not offer full-text, although academics may request that from JSTOR, subject to a non-disclosure agreement. JSTOR Plant Science
925-570: The network's instant messaging feature. BITNET differed from the Internet in that it was a point-to-point " store and forward " network. That is, email messages and files were transmitted in their entirety from one server to the next until reaching their destination. From this perspective, BITNET was more like UUCPNET . BITNET’s first electronic magazine, VM/COM, began as a University of Maine newsletter and circulated broadly in early 1984. Two email newsletters that began as Bitnet newsletters in
962-748: The networks and creating the Internet: Commercialization, privatization, broader access leads to the modern Internet: Examples of Internet services: BITNET was a co-operative U.S. university computer network founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University . The first network link was between CUNY and Yale. The name BITNET originally meant "Because It's There Network", but it eventually came to mean "Because It's Time Network". A college or university wishing to join BITNET
999-421: The nonprofit Ithaka Harbors, Inc. —a nonprofit organization founded in 2003 and "dedicated to helping the academic community take full advantage of rapidly advancing information and networking technologies". In 2019, JSTOR's revenue was $ 79 million. JSTOR content is provided by more than 900 publishers. The database contains more than 12 million journal articles, in more than 75 disciplines. Each object
1036-528: The prestigious first and last author positions and that women are significantly underrepresented as authors of single-authored papers. JSTOR metadata is available through CrossRef and the Unpaywall dump, which as of 2020 identifies nearly 3 million works hosted by JSTOR as toll access , as opposed to over 200,000 available in open access (mainly through third party open access repositories ). BITNET Early research and development: Merging
1073-412: The publishers. In 2010, JSTOR started adding current issues of certain journals through its Current Scholarship Program. Beginning September 6, 2011, JSTOR made public domain content available at no charge to the public. This "Early Journal Content" program constitutes about 6% of JSTOR's total content, and includes over 500,000 documents from more than 200 journals that were published before 1923 in
1110-715: The regional focus of the CEU Press was the Central and Eastern Europe . Later, it expanded to the former Soviet Union countries and their neighbors , as well as the Arab and Islamic worlds . The CEU Press publishes the CEU Review of Books . Since 2020, Frances Pinter has been the executive chair of the Press in Budapest, Hungary. Emily Poznanski took over as head of CEU Press in February 2021. In 2020,
1147-619: The then-president of JSTOR, wanted to expand the number of participating journals. They met with representatives of the Royal Society of London and an agreement was made to digitize the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society dating from its beginning in 1665. The work of adding these volumes to JSTOR was completed by December 2000. In 1999 JSTOR started a partnership with Joint Information Systems Committee and created
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1184-408: Was becoming an increasingly outdated technology and that network distribution could eliminate redundancy and increase accessibility (for example, all Princeton's administrative and academic buildings were networked by 1989; the student dormitory network was completed in 1994; and campus networks like the one at Princeton were, in turn, linked to larger networks such as BITNET and the Internet ). JSTOR
1221-490: Was implemented using BITNET protocols in the late 1980s, with a TCP/IP gateway to the Internet via Rhodes University . With the rapid growth of TCP/IP systems and the Internet in the early 1990s, and the rapid abandonment of the base IBM mainframe platform for academic purposes, BITNET's popularity and use diminished quickly. BITNET hosted its first multi-user dungeon (MUD) in 1984, the text-based MAD. Players connected from
1258-475: Was initiated in 1995 at seven different library sites, and originally encompassed ten economics and history journals. JSTOR access improved based on feedback from its initial sites, and it became a fully searchable index accessible from any ordinary web browser . Special software was put in place to make pictures and graphs clear and readable. With the success of this limited project, Bowen, Fuchs, and Kevin Guthrie,
1295-558: Was known as NetNorth), Europe (as EARN ), Israel (as ISRAEARN ), India ( VIDYANET ) and some Persian Gulf states (as GulfNet). BITNET was also very popular in other parts of the world, especially in South America, where about 200 nodes were implemented and heavily used in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Part of the South African inter-university academic network, initially known as UNINET, and later TENET (Tertiary Education Network)
1332-401: Was released on $ 100,000 bail. In September 2012, U.S. attorneys increased the number of charges against Swartz from four to thirteen, with a possible penalty of 35 years in prison and $ 1 million in fines. The case still was pending when Swartz died by suicide in January 2013. The availability of most journals on JSTOR is controlled by a " moving wall ", which is an agreed-upon delay between
1369-549: Was required to lease a data circuit from a site to an existing BITNET node , buy modems for each end of the data circuit, sending one to the connecting point site, and allow other institutions to connect to its site free of charge. In the early 1980s, the National Science Foundation (NSF) had several initiatives running to help spread the benefits of networking. One of these efforts was called CSNET, and it linked together several computer science departments across
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