Opening Access

Mr. Jason Philips E-mail: jphilips@jstor.org

Associate Director for Int’l Library Relations JSTOR

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The Scholarly Journal Archive

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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

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Participation

2,500+ library participantsUS: 1,300+Outside US: 1,200+95 Countries Represented

340+ publisher participants540+ journals in 12 collections; 18 million pages of contentScholarly societies, small/university sponsored publications, university presses, commercial publishers

Taiwan54 InstitutionsWill announce representative

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1,614,4085,913,259

17,311,45333,301,021

50,279,206

80,082,633

131,510,667

171,969,141

232,377,254*

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150,000,000

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1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005*

Total Accesses

Year *projected

Total Accesses

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The “Moving Wall”

Science

Moving Wall: 5 Years

2001 – 2005

No JSTOR content

1880 -- 2000

Content found in JSTOR

1880 -- 2001

Content found in JSTOR

2002 – 2006

No JSTOR content

2005 2006

One year added to JSTOR

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Collection Development

Multi-discipline collectionsArts & Sciences IArts & Sciences IIArts & Sciences IIIArts & Sciences IVArts & Sciences ComplementBiological SciencesGeneral Science

Discipline-specific collectionsEcology & 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)

Goal: Provide flexibility to every institution in meeting their collection development needs

Title Lists at: http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html

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Biological Sciences Collection

37 titles / 1.5 million pages currently availableo Launched April, 2005o 70 titles new to JSTORo Biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, cell

biology, zoologyo At least 100 titles by 2007

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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

Collection Development

*subject to change

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OPENING ACCESS

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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)

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How Metasearching Works: Model A

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Search: mad cow disease

Result setResult Set:

Resource 1: 24 hits

Resource 2: 7 hits

JSTOR: 31 hits

Resource N: 4 hits

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How Metasearching Works: Model B

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Result Set:

Resource 1: 24 hits

Resource 2: 7 hits

JSTOR: 31 hits

Resource N: 4 hits Search: mad cow disease

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Linking & JSTOR:Inbound Linking Example

MathSciNet

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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.

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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

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• Monitoring interest from Taiwanese academic community• Evaluating intellectual property restrictions• Need to better understand the technology and service requirements

of this community

Availability in Taiwan

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Thank You

Jason PhillipsAssociate Director for International Library Relations

JSTOR (www.jstor.org)149 Fifth Avenue

8th FloorNew York, NY 10010 USA

Tel: +1 (212) 358-6400Email: participation@jstor.org