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JSTOR Music Collection

JSTOR Music Collection. And Potential Links to Other Projects Mellon All Projects Meeting Musicology and Music Information Retrieval June 5-7,2007 Heidi McGregor Director, Strategic Planning. Today’s Discussion. Background Who is JSTOR? What is the JSTOR archive? Music Collection

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JSTOR Music Collection

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  1. JSTOR Music Collection And Potential Links to Other Projects Mellon All Projects Meeting Musicology and Music Information Retrieval June 5-7,2007 Heidi McGregor Director, Strategic Planning

  2. Today’s Discussion • Background • Who is JSTOR? • What is the JSTOR archive? • Music Collection • History and Development • Outcomes • Impact & Opportunity • How well served are musicologists? • Future • Growth in digital content • Integration and innovation

  3. Background

  4. Who is JSTOR? • JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technology. • Aims and Objectives • Reducing long-term costs • Preserving and increasing access to scholarship • Improving productivity and efficiency in research and teaching • Enabling new, innovative academic work • Current Areas of Activity • Building shared digital archives (JSTOR archive; Portico) • Building/facilitating development of print repositories • Conducting/supporting research • Seeking new areas of need/opportunity • Role and approach • Third-party that enables collective action • Balance interests • Collaboration among those that share values

  5. What is the JSTOR archive? • The JSTOR archive is a shared repository providing long-term preservation and access to scholarly literature. • Approach • Identify and prioritize important academic journals • Secure rights from publishers; establish “moving wall” • Convert from print to digital form (soon ingest born-digital) • Release to participating institutions in collections • Maintain preservation and delivery systems and practices • Re-invest (inward and outward facing) • Financial support • Foundation grants for specific collections and projects • Institutional fees for preservation and access • Additional fees (individual access, publisher sales service)

  6. The JSTOR archive 2007 • 729 titles online • 23.8 million pages & 3.7 million articles • 47 disciplines covered (humanities, social sciences, sciences) • Over 1.7 million images, thousands of maps & non-text content • Coverage from 1665 – 2007; most content between 1950 – 2003 • Full-text searchable; site-wide multi-user access • Recent functionality improvements: article language search; highlighted search terms; cut and paste capabilities; reference links 2001 (Music Collection conceived) • 169 titles online • 8 million pages • 18 disciplines covered

  7. Community Support • Participating Publishers and Journals • Signed 900th journal on May 22, 2007 • 446 publishers • 368 US • 78 International • Participating Institutions • 3,635 institutions in 117 countries • 1,828 US • 1,807 International • Users and Use • 95,458,763 articles viewed (2006) • 41,503,596 articles printed (2006) • Annual usage growth of approximately 45%

  8. Music Collection

  9. History and Development • 2000 -- 2001 Rising interest in music library community • Conversation initiated by RILM • Project conceived • RILM leads advisory group and title selection • JSTOR applies and receives grants from Mellon and Hewlett • 2002 – 2003 Introductions and invitations to publishers (RILM) • Agreement negotiations • Print acquisition and conversion to digital form • Development work (language challenges) • October 28, 2003 Music Collection Launch • Music titles also part of Arts & Sciences III Collection

  10. 19th-Century Music Acta Musicologica American Music Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft Asian Music Black Music Research Journal Cambridge Opera Journal Early Music Early Music History Ethnomusicology Galpin Society Journal International Review of Aesthetics and Sociology of Music Journal of Music Theory Journal of Musicology Journal of the American Musicological Society Journal of the Royal Musicological Association Latin American Music Review Leonardo Music Journal Lied und populare Kultur Music & Letters Music Analysis Music Theory Spectrum Musical Quarterly Musical Times Notes Perspectives in New Music Popular Music Revue de Musicologie Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae Tempo Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis Yearbook for Traditional Music Music Collection Titles

  11. Outcomes • Publisher and title participation • 26 publishers and 32 titles • 90% invited titles signed • 585,000 pages; 148,000 articles (+ annual updates) • Moving wall: 3-5 years • Additional incremental growth • 6 music titles in new collections • Black Perspective in Music, Computer Music Journal, Journal of Research in Music Education, Lenox Avenue: A Journal of Interartistic Inquiry, Music Educators Journal, Revue belge de Musicologie • Occasional requests for more (6-12 per year)

  12. Outcomes • Institutional participation • 1,500 institutions (93 Music; 1,407 Arts & Sciences III) • Annual cost per title (A&S III) ranges from $0 to $66 * • Maximum annual cost per page is less than $0.01 • Cost per download (Very Large institutions) is less than $0.01 • Usage (since launch) • 6.5 million articles viewed • 1.95 million articles printed • 60% of articles accessed at least once • * $66 is paid by relatively few Very Large institutions; most pay $50 as Charter JSTOR participants.

  13. Cumulative Music and A&S III Participation

  14. Efforts to Increase Use and Efficiency • Linking from core resources • RILM, Music Index (2002-2003) – 1,665 links during April 2007 • RILM retrospective indexing project • Visibility in search engines • Google and Google Scholar (2006) – 545,454 links during April 2007 • Microsoft Live Academic (soon in 2007) • Total external links during April 2007 = 955,326 • Article views (resulting from internal and external links) = 494,947 • Expanding access options • Launched Publisher Sales Service in December 2006 • 7 music journals (and growing) • Fees range from $7-$12 per article • Musical Times is highest selling journal in entire program (average of 65 articles sold per month)

  15. Efforts to Increase Use and Efficiency • Capture and linking of references • 35% of the collection complete (226,273 pages) • 234,834 citations; 7,339 (3%) linked within JSTOR • Remainder cite: • Journals not included in JSTOR • Books • Musical scores • Musical performances • Primary sources

  16. Impact and Opportunity

  17. What impact are we having? // How can we have an impact? • 2006 survey of US faculty conducted by Odyssey on behalf of JSTOR and Ithaka • Impact of JSTOR • Awareness and impression • Use of JSTOR • Level of satisfaction • Areas for improvement/Opportunities • Recommendations for JSTOR (and others!) • Trends and expectations

  18. JSTOR Impact

  19. Awareness of JSTOR varies tremendously by discipline…

  20. But awareness of JSTOR among music faculty has increased over time, as its image has improved as well

  21. Number of occasions in the past year that music faculty have used JSTOR(Base: Music faculty using JSTOR)

  22. JSTOR more often used to search for journal articles of which people are unaware(Percent stating extremely or very likely, Base: Music faculty aware of JSTOR)

  23. Is JSTOR primary or secondary destination for research among music faculty?(Base: Music faculty using JSTOR)

  24. Music faculty use both current issues and back issues, but many are frustrated with their access options—a fact that hasn’t changed much since 2003(Percent of music faculty believing that the statement describes their point of view extremely or very well)

  25. Opportunities

  26. How music faculty find information in journals“How often do you use each of the methods listed below to find information in academic journals?”

  27. Music faculty believe JSTOR can increase its value by adding more content • Nearly nine in ten music faculty believe that JSTOR will become significantly more valuable if more journals in fields already covered are offered and if current issues are made available • Strong majorities of music faculty view the addition of primary source documents and books as valuable activities for JSTOR to pursue Music faculty viewing factor as increasing JSTOR’s value a great deal

  28. Music faculty believe JSTOR can increase its value by adding more content Music faculty viewing factor as increasing JSTOR’s value a great deal • There was strong support for JSTOR becoming more of a gateway to scholarly content, not just an archive of journals • Many music faculty members thought there was value in including more disciplines in JSTOR • Majorities of music faculty expressed interest in the possibility of having non-English titles and local content accessible through JSTOR

  29. Music faculty are less interested in JSTOR’s potential to offer interactive content • Only a third of music faculty were interested in accessing the article preprints of their colleagues through JSTOR • Few music faculty respondents believed JSTOR could be made more valuable by offering access to blogs or podcasts • Fewer than a fifth of music faculty thought that a potential JSTOR investment in article sharing would be valuable Music faculty viewing factor as increasing JSTOR’s value a great deal

  30. Frequently used tools for teaching and research are not always perceived as important but are generally expected to grow in importance

  31. Interactive teaching resources are not frequently used, but are expected to grow in importance

  32. The Future

  33. Growth in Digital Content for Music • Should JSTOR invest in expanding the collection? • Faculty survey suggests more journals valuable • MLA and RILM interest • Other forms of content appear to be valuable (reference links; faculty interest) • Books • Primary source materials • Other content? • Next steps • Evaluate priorities • Stimulate and leverage community action

  34. Integration and Innovation • What can we do for together to increase impact? • Federated searching • Intelligent linking • Audio and text integration • Improved faceted navigation • Improved intersection with course management systems • Consider unique needs of field (device compatibility, for example) • Sharing platform and services • Experiments to stimulate ideas: • JSTOR – ARTstor search (http://www.jstor.org/search/) • Faceted navigation (enhanced by NLP techniques) (http://sandbox.jstor.org/) • NINES (http://staging.nines.org/collex/browse) • Topic mapping (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lemur/science/)

  35. Thank You Heidi McGregor Director, Strategic Planning hm@jstor.org JSTOR 149 5th Avenue New York, NY 10010 Tel: (212)358-6400 Fax: (212)358-6499

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