Hello -
I'm happy to provide an update on JSTOR membership in the UK Federation. As Nicole mentioned in her email, JSTOR has completed the membership paperwork, but the service is not yet live on the main JSTOR site (www.jstor.org).
We have been working on a new platform for JSTOR, and we anticipate that access via Shibboleth for the UK Federation will be live at the time of the release of the new site. We are currently in the preview phase of the new platform (some of you may have recently received an announcement about the preview, available from the JSTOR Sandbox, sandbox.jstor.org). The Shibboleth service is not live yet on the preview site. As soon as it is, however, we will be contacting a few institutions to ask for their assistance in testing the service before the release of the new platform.
We expect to make the complete transition to the new JSTOR platform within a month. I will be very glad to keep you informed of any changes to this schedule. In the meantime, please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Regards,
Kristen Garlock
JSTOR User Services
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