Why does ARTstor charge licensing fees?
The Mellon Foundation has provided substantial financial support for the early development of ARTstor’s collections and services. However, the ongoing operational costs of such a service are significant, and it is essential that ARTstor develop a distribution model that will ensure that the ARTstor service is scalable and sustainable while also enabling subscribing institutions (especially libraries) to assign a value to ARTstor’s collections and services. Like JSTOR, ARTstor therefore charges institutional licensing fees to defray some part of our ongoing operating costs. Ongoing development of ARTstor collections will be funded in other ways.
