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The Scholarly Journal Archive TAIPEI 19 OCTOBER, 2005

The Scholarly Journal Archive TAIPEI 19 OCTOBER, 2005. JSTOR. Scholarly Journal Archive Mission : (1) create a trusted archive of important scholarly literature, and (2) to extend access to that archive as broadly as possible.

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The Scholarly Journal Archive TAIPEI 19 OCTOBER, 2005

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  1. The Scholarly Journal Archive TAIPEI 19 OCTOBER, 2005

  2. JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive • Mission: (1) create a trusted archive of important scholarly literature, and (2) to extend access to that archive as broadly as possible. • Originally conceived as a demonstration project at 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 • Offices in New York City and Ann Arbor, Michigan USA

  3. Participation • 2,500+ library participants • US: 1,300+ • Outside US: 1,200+ • 95 Countries Represented • 340+ publisher participants • 540+ journals in 12 collections; 18 million pages of content • Scholarly societies, small/university sponsored publications, university presses, commercial publishers • Taiwan • 54 Institutions • Will announce representative

  4. Total Accesses Total Accesses Year*projected

  5. The “Moving Wall” Science Moving Wall: 5 Years 2005 2006 2001 – 2005 No JSTOR content 2002 – 2006 No JSTOR content 1880 -- 2000 Content found in JSTOR 1880 -- 2001 Content found in JSTOR One year added to JSTOR

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

  7. Biological Sciences Collection • 37 titles / 1.5 million pages currently available • Launched April, 2005 • 70 titles new to JSTOR • Biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, cell biology, zoology • At least 100 titles by 2007

  8. Collection Development • Future Plans* • Second Business Collection • Expanded General Science Collection • Engineering and Computer Science Collection • Content outside North America and United Kingdom • Working with participants to determine new directions *subject to change

  9. OPENING ACCESS

  10. JSTOR Searching and Linking Initiatives • Search Engine improvements (2005) • Public search engine access (2005 – 2006) • XML Gateway for Metasearching (2005) • Internal linking: establishing reference links between articles within the JSTOR archive (2005 – 2007) • Inbound reference linking (2006 and ongoing) • Outbound linking: • Establishing reference links from articles in JSTOR to other resources (2006) • Current Issues Linking (2006)

  11. Library Services Resource1 User Portal Metasearch Engine IntegratedLibrarySystem Resource2 authenticate authenticate Result set Result Set: Resource 1: 24 hits Resource 2: 7 hits JSTOR: 31 hits Resource N: 4 hits Search: mad cow disease ResourceN How Metasearching Works: Model A

  12. Resource1 Library Services User Portal IntegratedLibrarySystem Resource2 authenticate authenticate Result Set: Resource 1: 24 hits Resource 2: 7 hits JSTOR: 31 hits Resource N: 4 hits Result set Metasearch Engine Search: mad cow disease ResourceN authenticate How Metasearching Works: Model B

  13. Linking & JSTOR:Inbound Linking Example MathSciNet

  14. What Is ARTstor? • A not-for-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that is developing a digital library of images to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and humanities • A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data; • The tools to actively use those images; and • A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.

  15. Overview of ARTstor Digital Library What you see in ARTstor • Digital images and descriptive data • Initial collections focus on art, architecture and archeology • Total number of images in charter collections: ~300,000 (>500,000 by 2006) What you can do with ARTstor • Search and Browse collections • Analyze images using zoom and pan • Annotate images with instructor commentary or personal notes • Save groups of images for personal use, group use or institution-wide access • Presentation / slide-show tools (both online and off-line) • Integrate personal content with ARTstor content

  16. Availability in Taiwan • Monitoring interest from Taiwanese academic community • Evaluating intellectual property restrictions • Need to better understand the technology and service requirements of this community

  17. Thank You Jason Phillips Associate Director for International Library Relations JSTOR (www.jstor.org) 149 Fifth Avenue 8th Floor New York, NY 10010 USA Tel: +1 (212) 358-6400 Email: participation@jstor.org

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