Getting the Most from the JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive

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• Getting the Most from the JSTOR Scholarly Journal
  Archive
• Stephanie Krueger, Assistant Director for
  International Library Relations,
  stephkru_at_jstor.org
• February 2005

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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JSTOR in Australia

• Total accesses, 2000 to present
• Over 6 million total accesses
• 2004 3,053,340 accesses
• 2003 1,942,192 accesses

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JSTOR in New Zealand

• Total accesses, 1999 to present
• Over 1 million accesses
• 2004 623,617 accesses
• 2003 269,805 accesses

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

• Multi-discipline collections
• Arts Sciences I
• Arts Sciences II
• Arts Sciences III
• Arts Sciences IV
• Arts Sciences Complement

• Discipline-specific collections
• General Science
• Ecology Botany (ASI)
• Business (ASI, ASII, ASIV)
• Language Literature (ASI, ASIII)
• Music (ASIII)
• Mathematics Statistics
• (ASI, ASII, GS, BUS)

Title Lists at http//www.jstor.org/about/collect
ion.list.html
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Using JSTORSearch

• 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)

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Using JSTORSearch

• Main Search Interface
• Help available at http//www.jstor.org/help/searc
  h.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

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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)

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Using JSTORAdvanced Search

• Advanced Expert Search
• Narrow your search using a form, to
• Discipline(s)
• Journal(s)
• Type of Article
• Date Range

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Using JSTORSave 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

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Exporting Citations JSTOR Citation List

• Options
• Save All Citations on this page
• View Saved Citations
• (also indicates how many citations have
  previously been saved)

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Exporting Citations JSTOR Citation List

• Export citations
• As text, email or in a new window
• In citation-manager, printer-friendly, or
  tab-delimited formats

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Exporting Citations JSTOR Citation List
Citation manager format (text version)
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Exporting Citations Importing List into EndNote
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Linking JSTOR JSTOR to Project Muse
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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

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Links in Web Pages

• Steps
• Cut link out of JSTOR.
• Paste into web editing software or course
  management software.
• If an HTML page, place on a web server.

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Links in Online Syllabi Course Reserves
Electronic Course Reserves, University of
Michigan
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Linking JSTORArticle-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)

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Linking JSTORPartner Linking Example

• MathSciNet

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Linking JSTOR ABC-CLIO to JSTOR
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Linking JSTOR Open URL example
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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)

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Foundation Support for Access Education
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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.)

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New Related Initiative ARTstor
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Conclusion

• Final Questions?
• Thank you very much for your attention!
• Please address general
• support questions to
• support_at_jstor.org
• I will be happy to answer
• specific requests
• Stephanie Krueger
• stephkru_at_jstor.org