Kevin M. Guthrie, President, JSTOR, invited the Registrar of BU to attend a meeting in Bangalore, India on the January 21, 2002.Vice Chancellors and representatives from more than twenty universities and institutions in South Asia attended the meeting.The Registrar attended the meeting, where a core committee was formed to suggest and work out a reasonable registration and annual charges so that maximum universities/institutions in South Asia could benefit from the JSTOR collaborative program. JSTOR is a not- for- profit organization based in United States that is building a trusted archive of the back volumes of important academic journals. More than 1200 institutions from nearly 54 countries have already registered as members of JSTOR.Detailed information about JSTOR is available at their website at http://www.jstor.org