Getting the Most from the JSTORScholarly 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 DevelopingNations
•Questions and Answers
•Conclusions
History
•Originally conceived by William G. Bowen,President of The Andrew W. MellonFoundation in 1994
•Established as an independent not-for-profitorganization in August 1995
•Initially a pilot project (University ofMichigan) to provide electronic access to thebackfiles of ten journals in two core fields,economics and history
JSTOR Today
•Reliable and comprehensive archive ofimportant scholarly journal literature
•Primary functions: preservation and accessover time
•At present, over 450 journals in elevencollections
•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/universitysponsored publications, university presses,commercial publishers
JSTOR in Australiaand 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, 2000to present:
–Over 6 million totalaccesses
–2004: 3,053,340accesses
–2003: 1,942,192accesses
JSTOR in New Zealand
•Total accesses, 1999to present:
–Over 1 millionaccesses
–2004: 623,617accesses
–2003: 269,805accesses
Collection Development
•Multi-disciplinecollections
Arts & Sciences I
Arts & Sciences II
Arts & Sciences III
Arts & Sciences IV
Arts & SciencesComplement
•Discipline-specificcollections
General Science
Ecology & 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 meetingtheir 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: tosearch for an author (e.g., ti:"parabolicequations" au:"john nash")
•Use AND, OR, NOT to combine terms
–Terms combined with AND by default (likeGoogle)
Using JSTOR:Search
Main Search Interface
•Help available at:http://www.jstor.org/help/search.html
•Additional field operators available tosearch for authors of reviewed works,captions, journal titles, ISSN
•Use phrase searching to include stopwordsin the phrase
•Single/multiple wildcards available
•Proximity searching also available
Finding non-EnglishLanguage Content
•Transliteration: Some journal articlesin JSTOR contain non-Roman, non-ASCIIcharacters. To be searchable, thesewords or phrases have beentransliterated into Roman characters.
•ALA-LC (American Library Association -Library of Congress) RomanizationTables 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 managementsoftware (e.g., EndNote, ProCite, ReferenceManager, RefWorks)
–Filter under “TIPS” (can be customized or users cancreate their own)
–Tab Delimited option also available (export intoExcel 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 AllCitations on thispage
•View SavedCitations
(also indicateshow manycitations havepreviously beensaved)
Exporting Citations:JSTOR Citation List
Exportcitations:
•As text,email or in anew window
•In citation-manager,printer-friendly, ortab-delimitedformats
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 coursemanagement software
–Note: Users may need to authenticate if off-campus to access links
Links in Web Pages
Steps:
1.Cut link out ofJSTOR.
2.Paste into webeditingsoftware orcoursemanagementsoftware.
3.If an HTMLpage, place ona 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 Supportfor Access & Education
•Increasing access to “developing nations” andto decrease US digital divide
–John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation(Russia)
–Southern Education Foundation (US HistoricallyBlack Colleges and Universities [HBCUs])
–Niarchos Foundation (Greece)
–Ford Foundation (India)
–Mellon Foundation (Eastern Europe)
Foundation Supportfor Access & Education
Future Plans
•Content
–Double size over next 5 years
–Possibility of special collections & new formattypes
•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 Krueger
stephkru@jstor.org