Getting the Most from the JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive

Stephanie Krueger, Assistant Director for International Library Relations, stephkru@jstor.org

February 2005

Outline

• History and Mission• Content Overview• Using JSTOR

– Searching– Working with Articles and Citations– Linking and JSTOR

• Expanding Access to JSTOR in Developing Nations

• Questions and Answers• Conclusions

History

• 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

• Reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature

• Primary functions: preservation and access over time

• At present, over 450 journals in eleven collections

• Over 16 million pages• Archival content only• Focus on the social sciences and

humanities

Participation

• 2,224 library participants• US: 1,315• Outside US: 909

• 272 publisher participants• 15 publisher countries • Scholarly societies, small/university

sponsored publications, university presses, commercial publishers

JSTOR in Australia and New Zealand

• Australia: 43 institutions– CAUL institutions– CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences– Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST)– State Forests of New South Wales

• New Zealand: 10 institutions– CONZUL institutions– Commerce Commission– Reserve Bank of New Zealand– The Treasury

JSTOR in Australia

• Total accesses, 2000 to present: – Over 6 million

total accesses– 2004: 3,053,340

accesses– 2003: 1,942,192

accesses

JSTOR in New Zealand

• Total accesses, 1999 to present: – Over 1 million

accesses– 2004: 623,617

accesses– 2003: 269,805

accesses

Collection Development

• Multi-discipline collectionsArts & Sciences IArts & Sciences IIArts & Sciences IIIArts & Sciences IVArts & Sciences

Complement

• Discipline-specific collectionsGeneral ScienceEcology & 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

Using JSTOR:Search

Main Search Interface• Searches all types of journal content (articles,

book reviews, etc.) by default• Use quotation marks to search for a phrase

(e.g., "punctuated equilibrium") • Use ti: to search for an article title, au: to

search for an author (e.g., ti:"parabolic equations" au:"john nash")

• Use AND, OR, NOT to combine terms– Terms combined with AND by default (like

Google)

Using JSTOR:Search

Main Search Interface• Help available at:

http://www.jstor.org/help/search.html• Additional field operators available to

search for authors of reviewed works, captions, journal titles, ISSN

• Use phrase searching to include stopwords in the phrase

• Single/multiple wildcards available• Proximity searching also available

Finding non-English Language Content

• Transliteration: Some journal articles in JSTOR contain non-Roman, non-ASCII characters. To be searchable, these words or phrases have been transliterated into Roman characters.

• ALA-LC (American Library Association - Library of Congress) Romanization Tables were used for many languages (see http://www.jstor.org/help/ transliteration.html for details)

Using JSTOR:Advanced Search

Advanced & Expert Search• Narrow your search using a form,

to:– Discipline(s)– Journal(s)– Type of Article– Date Range

Using JSTOR:Save Citations Feature

• Useful for exporting citations into management software (e.g., EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, RefWorks)– Filter under “TIPS” (can be customized or users

can create their own)– Tab Delimited option also available (export into

Excel instead of management software)• 200 citations can be saved• Saved citations are deleted when user:

– Removes them from the list– Closes browser – Exits JSTOR

Exporting Citations: JSTOR Citation List

Options:

•Save All Citations on this page

•View Saved Citations

(also indicates how many citations have previously been saved)

Exporting Citations: JSTOR Citation List

Export citations:•As text, email or in a new window

•In citation-manager, printer-friendly, or tab-delimited formats

Exporting Citations: JSTOR Citation List

Citation manager format (text version)

Exporting Citations: Importing List into

EndNote

Linking & JSTOR: JSTOR to Project Muse

Using JSTOR Links

• Links can be created to a particular:– Journal– Table of Contents– Article

• Useful in subject guides and web pages– Cut and paste links into web documents or

course management software– Note: Users may need to authenticate if off-

campus to access links

Links in Web Pages

Steps:

1. Cut link out of JSTOR.

2. Paste into web editing software or course management software.

3. If an HTML page, place on a web server.

Links in Online Syllabi & Course Reserves

Electronic Course Reserves, University of Michigan

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)

Linking & JSTOR:Partner Linking Example

MathSciNet

Linking & JSTOR: ABC-CLIO to JSTOR

Linking & JSTOR: Open URL example

Foundation Support for Access & Education

• Increasing access to “developing nations” and to decrease US digital divide– John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

(Russia)– Southern Education Foundation (US Historically

Black Colleges and Universities [HBCUs])– Niarchos Foundation (Greece)– Ford Foundation (India)– Mellon Foundation (Eastern Europe)

Foundation Support for Access & Education

Future Plans

• Content– Double size over next 5 years– Possibility of special collections & new

format types • Technology:

– Migration (to XML/Oracle)– E-archive– Authentication (Shibboleth?)

• Organization– Work with other Ithaka entities (ARTstor,

etc.)

New Related Initiative: ARTstor

Conclusion

Final Questions?

Thank you very much for your attention!

Please address general support questions to:

support@jstor.org

I will be happy to answer specific requests:

Stephanie Kruegerstephkru@jstor.org