Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST)

The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST) is a shared print initiative of around 200 member institutions in 17 states from Maine to Florida and as far west as Tennessee. EAST member libraries commit to retain agreed upon titles in their local collection and make those titles available to other EAST members. EAST member libraries have collectively made retention commitments to over 11 million print monographs. A subset of EAST members (31 libraries) has committed to retaining approximately 37,000 journal holdings. The criteria for which journal titles were committed can be found on the EAST website. In 2025, 60 EAST members began a new phase of journal collection analysis, with the support of CRL. EAST is a member of the Shared Print Partnership.

USA

Operational

Print

Journals

EAST worked with the Center for Research Libraries on analyzing print serial and journal titles across the journal retention partners. EAST focuses on preserving scarcely held titles and securing up to 3 retention commitments for widely held materials.

15 years

Original owner

Member Funded

Dedicated staff (Program Officer / Executive Director)

PAPR, OCLC WorldCat

Regional Based