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MacArthur Grantee Workshop 2005 Stephanie Krueger, Assistant Director for International Library Relations, sk@jstor.org 20 May 2005

History:

History JSTOR stands for “journal storage” Originally conceived by William G. Bowen, President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 1994 Established as an independent not-for-profit organization in August 1995 Initially a pilot project (University of Michigan) to provide electronic access to the backfiles of ten journals in two core fields, economics and history

JSTOR Today:

JSTOR Today Reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature Primary functions: preservation and access over time At present, over 480 journals in twelve collections Over 17 million pages Archival content only (only 2 journals have current issues – the American Journal of International Law and the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, in Arts & Sciences I)

Participation:

Participation 2,400+ library participants US: 1,300+ Outside US: 1,000+ 300+ publisher participants 15 publisher countries Scholarly societies, small/university sponsored publications, university presses, commercial publishers

Participation in Russia:

Participation in Russia 34 current participants: See list at: http://www.jstor.org/about/participants_intl.html#Russia Over 219,947 total accesses already in 2005

Usage in Russia:

Usage in Russia

Usage in Russia:

Usage in Russia

Usage in Russia:

Usage in Russia

Collection Development:

Collection Development Multi-discipline collections Arts & Sciences I Arts & Sciences II Arts & Sciences III Arts & Sciences IV Arts & Sciences Complement Biological Sciences Discipline-specific collections General Science Ecology & Botany (A&SI) Business (A&SI, A&SII, A&SIV) Language & Literature (A&SI, A&SIII) Music (A&SIII) Mathematics & Statistics (A&SI, A&SII, GS, BUS) Goal: Provide flexibility to every institution in meeting their collection development needs Title Lists at: http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html

Deciding how to grow:

Deciding how to grow Librarian, user, and publisher feedback about “missing” disciplines Comprehensive coverage of fields commonly part of a liberal arts education More attention to interdisciplinary fields and journals with cross-disciplinary appeal Foundation support for discipline-specific collections (Music, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature)

Selection Criteria:

Selection Criteria Publishing history Historical significance The number of institutional subscribers Citation data Reputation in the field Needs and interests of the community

Why collections?:

Why collections? The value of curation Broad selection of disciplines makes it a resource for an entire institution Facilitation of cross-disciplinary research Stability

Arts & Sciences I:

Arts & Sciences I Complete back runs of 117 titles in fifteen disciplines Established in 1997, it is JSTOR’s first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences http://www.jstor.org/about/asI.list.html

Arts & Sciences II:

Arts & Sciences II Complete back runs of 124 titles Adds depth to many disciplines introduced in Arts & Sciences I, such as economics, history, and Asian studies Offers core journals in several new disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies http://www.jstor.org/about/asII.list.html

Arts & Sciences III:

Arts & Sciences III 133 titles signed; 93 available Recently signed titles include: Artibus et Historiae Journal of Religion in Africa La Ricerca Folklorica Muqarnas Studia Islamica Most internationally diverse selection of journals in the archive On track to be fully released by the end of 2005 http://www.jstor.org/about/asIII.list.html

Arts & Sciences IV:

Arts & Sciences IV 98 titles signed; 72 available Recently signed titles include: Arab Law Quarterly Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Peabody Journal of Education Psychological Inquiry Includes a noteworthy cluster of student-run law reviews, with more than a century of top legal scholarship On track to be fully released by the end of 2006 http://www.jstor.org/about/asIV.list.html

Arts & SciencesComplement:

Arts & Sciences Complement 86 titles signed; 31 available Recently signed titles include: African Economic History Indonesia Journal of Arabic Literature Revue Française de Sociologie An opportunity to deepen our coverage of the disciplines in JSTOR More interdisciplinary journals New areas, such as linguistics and Jewish Studies http://www.jstor.org/about/ascomp.list.html

Biological Sciences:

Biological Sciences Just announced on April 13! Created in collaboration with the Ecological Society of America and BioOne Over 100 titles, including the 29 in EcoBot http://www.jstor.org/about/biosci.list.html Seven new disciplines: Aquatic Sciences Biological Sciences Botany & Plant Sciences Developmental & Cell Biology Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Paleontology Zoology

Discipline-Specific Collections:

Discipline-Specific Collections Typically lower fees Popular are: Business Mathematics & Statistics Music

Fees: ACF and AAF:

Fees: ACF and AAF 2 Fees – An Archive Capital Fee (ACF – a one-time fee) and an Annual Access Fee (AAF) ACF: Designed to ensure that JSTOR has the necessary resources to meet its archival obligation as technology evolves AAF: Helps cover the recurring costs of updating the archive and maintaining access and support services for participating institutions

Linking & JSTOR:Article-level Linking Partners:

Linking & JSTOR: Article-level Linking Partners Article-level linking from other resources to JSTOR: ABC-CLIO: Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) EBSCOhost Endeavor (LinkFinderPlus) ExLibris (SFX) Family Scholar Publishing (Family Index Database) Gale (MLA International Bibliography) H.W. Wilson (WilsonWeb) Ingenta Innovative Interfaces (III) (WebBridge) MathSciNet National Information Services Corportation (NISC) (BiblioLine) OCLC FirstSearch Openly Informatics (1-Cate) ProQuest Information and Learning (PCI) Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) Serials Solutions (ArticleLinker)

Ithaka:

Ithaka Mission: A not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education around the world A new nonprofit organization launched in December 2002 with core start-up funding from the Mellon, Hewlett, and Niarchos Foundations Led by Kevin Guthrie, founding President of JSTOR Affiliated with JSTOR and ARTstor An innovative model for supporting and incubating new initiatives (such as Aluka) Taking advantage of economies of scale and years of expertise