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With the success of this limited project, Bowen, Fuchs, and Kevin Guthrie, the then-president of JSTOR, wanted to expand the number of participating journals. They met with representatives of the [[Royal Society|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.<ref name = "Taylor" /> In 1999 JSTOR started a partnership with [[Jisc|Joint Information Systems Committee]] and created 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Guthrie |first1=Kevin M. |year=1999 |title=JSTOR: Large Scale Digitization of Journals in the United States |url=https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/10146/10595 |format=pdf |journal=LIBER Quarterly |volume=9 |issue=3 |page=291 |doi=10.18352/lq.7546 |issn=1435-5205 |via= |doi-access=free}}</ref> | With the success of this limited project, Bowen, Fuchs, and Kevin Guthrie, the then-president of JSTOR, wanted to expand the number of participating journals. They met with representatives of the [[Royal Society|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.<ref name = "Taylor" /> In 1999 JSTOR started a partnership with [[Jisc|Joint Information Systems Committee]] and created 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Guthrie |first1=Kevin M. |year=1999 |title=JSTOR: Large Scale Digitization of Journals in the United States |url=https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/10146/10595 |format=pdf |journal=LIBER Quarterly |volume=9 |issue=3 |page=291 |doi=10.18352/lq.7546 |issn=1435-5205 |via= |doi-access=free}}</ref> | ||
The [[Andrew W. Mellon Foundation]] funded JSTOR initially. Until January 2009, JSTOR operated as an independent, self-sustaining [[nonprofit organization]] with offices in | 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 the nonprofit [[Ithaka Harbors, Inc.]]<ref name="history">{{cite web |title=About: Mission and history |url= https://about.jstor.org/mission-history/ |publisher=JSTOR |access-date= 29 December 2022 |archive-date= December 29, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221229223421/https://about.jstor.org/mission-history/ |url-status= live }}</ref>—a nonprofit organization founded in 2003 and "dedicated to helping the [[academic community]] take full advantage of rapidly advancing information and networking technologies".<ref name = "About Ithaka" /> | ||
In 2019, JSTOR's revenue was $79 million.<ref name=NonProfitExplorer>{{Cite web|url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/133857105/03_2021_prefixes_11-16%2F133857105_201912_990_2021030217777098|title=Form 990 for period ending December 2019|department=Nonprofit Explorer |publisher=[[ProPublica]]|format=pdf}}</ref> | In 2019, JSTOR's revenue was $79 million.<ref name=NonProfitExplorer>{{Cite web|url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/133857105/03_2021_prefixes_11-16%2F133857105_201912_990_2021030217777098|title=Form 990 for period ending December 2019|department=Nonprofit Explorer |publisher=[[ProPublica]]|format=pdf}}</ref> | ||