Bruce Heterick, Director of Library Relations

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• Bruce Heterick, Director of Library Relations
• www.jstor.org

CONCERT 2004 Taipei, Taiwan November 11, 2004
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Mission
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a
mission to help the scholarly community take
advantage of the advances in information
technology. This includes (1) building a
reliable and comprehensive archive of core
scholarly journals, and (2) dramatically improve
access to this scholarly material. In pursuing
its mission, JSTOR takes a system-wide
perspective, seeking benefits for libraries,
publishers and scholars
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JSTOR Archive

• Humanities, Social Sciences primarily
• JSTOR always digitizes journals back to volume 1,
  issue 1
• JSTOR creates page images to retain the look and
  feel of the original publication
• The JSTOR archive does not include current issues
  moving wall

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JSTOR Today

• 2,200 library participants in 85 countries
• 36 institutions in Taiwan licensing 77 total
  collections
• 267 publishers contributing to the 446 titles in
  the archive
• 11 Collections available, 26 disciplines, 16M
  journal pages

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Collections Available
Multi-Discipline Collections
Discipline-Specific Collections

• Arts Sciences I (117 titles)
• Arts Sciences II (122 titles)
• Arts Sciences III (114 titles)
• To be completed in 2005
• Arts Sciences IV (92 titles)
• To be completed in 2006
• Arts Sciences Complement (28 titles)
• To be completed in 2008

• General Science (7 titles)
• Includes Science, PNAS
• Ecology Botany (29 titles)
• Language Literature (46 titles)
• Includes PMLA
• Business (46 titles)
• Music (31 titles)
• Mathematics Statistics (30 titles)

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JSTOR Usage in Taiwan

• Top 5 JSTOR Disciplines Searched by Taiwan
  Participants (2004)
• Business 31
• Economics 19
• Finance 11
• Statistics 9
• General Science 8

• Top 5 JSTOR Disciplines Searched by ALL
  Participants (2004)
• Business 14
• History 12
• Economics 10
• Sociology 9
• Political Science 9

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Faculty Survey

• Faculty only This was not a survey of graduate
  students or undergraduate students.
• How might student (or librarian) responses vary
  from the responses of faculty?
• US only We were unable to include faculty from
  other countries
• How might responses from faculty in Taiwan differ
  from the US-specific findings?
• Colleges and universities that grant the
  Bachelors Degree or higher We did not include
  technical or teaching colleges.

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Disciplines Included

• Area Studies
• African Studies, African-American Studies,
  American Studies, Asian Studies, India Studies,
  Latin American Studies, Middle East Studies,
  Slavic Studies
• Humanities
• Classical Studies, History of Art, History or
  History of Science, Languages, Linguistics,
  Literature, Music, Philosophy, Theater and Drama
• Social Sciences
• Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Business
  or Finance, Economics, Education, Law, Political
  Science, Population or Demography, Psychology,
  Sociology
• Sciences
• Biology, Botany, or Ecology, Geography,
  Mathematics or Statistics, Physical Sciences,
  Public Health or Epidemiology

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Mailing and Response

• Within these disciplines, a list of all faculty
  was created.
• Sample was chosen by random selection from this
  list.
• 44,060 professors were sent a questionnaire (as
  compared with 32,670 in 2000).
• Total of 7,403 completed surveys received (as
  compared with 4,220 in 2000).
• Overall response rate of 16.8 (as compared with
  13 in 2000)

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• Information Resources in General
• The Role of the Library

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The Google-Effect on Faculty?
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Library Functions Valued by Faculty
How important is it to you that your library
provides each of the following functions? Percent
rating each function as very important
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Differences by Discipline Grouping
How important is it to you that your library
provides each of the following functions? Percent
rating each function as very important
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Dependence Varies by Institution Size
Degree of dependence on your college or
university library for your research
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But Relatively Little By Discipline
Degree of dependence on your college or
university library for your research
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Degree of Dependence 2000 vs. 2003
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And Is Expected to Continue to Decrease
Degree of dependence on your college or
university library for your research
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• Information Resources in General
• Hard-Copy Collections

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Hard-Copy Collections Are Not Expected To Gain In
Popularity
The act of searching through hard-copy
collections is much too time-consuming and
onerous. I would welcome access to new tools
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Huh?
A substantial problem for me is that journal
articles that I need are sometimes not available
at my university or in my locale and I have to
get them from another source
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Perhaps Because of Hard-Copy Cancellations?
In the past 2 years, has your college or
university library cancelled its subscription to
the print version of any journal in which you are
interested?
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• Information Resources in General
• Electronic Resources

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Usage of E-resources Varies Significantly By
Discipline
Number of times you have used computer-based
electronic resources in the past year
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Even Within the Humanities
Number of times you have used computer-based
electronic resources in the past year
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Electronic Resources Have Gained in Importance
Electronic research resources are invaluable
research tools
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And Dependence is Expected to Increase
I will become increasingly dependent on
electronic research resources in the future
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• Electronic Archiving

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Archiving
Preserving and protecting access to a collection
of scholarly literature in perpetuity, without
regard for how frequently or infrequently these
materials are being read.
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Importance of Archiving is Widely Recognized
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Electronic Archiving is Growing in Importance
With more and more journals becoming available
electronically, it is crucial that libraries,
publishers, or electronic databases archive,
catalog, and protect these electronic journals.
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Electronic Archiving is Growing in Importance
Importance of Long-Term Preservation of
Electronic Journals
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• Conclusions

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Conclusions Access to Resources

• Electronic resources continue to be important to
  faculty.
• Scientists use electronic resources more than
  other faculty, but there is significant
  disciplinary variation even within the
  humanities.
• The library gateway role is more important to
  humanists than to other faculty. For scientists,
  electronic resources are the starting-point for
  research.

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Conclusions Archiving

• Electronic archiving is important to all.
• Most faculty want to see hard-copies retained
  somewhere but many continue to call for local
  retention.
• Even stronger affinity for archiving in the
  larger universities than in the smaller
  institutions.
• The importance of the librarys archiving
  function has, as was anticipated, declined
  somewhat, and is expected to decline further.

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• Thank You

Bruce Heterick, Director of Library
Relations heterick_at_jstor.org