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Bruce Heterick, Director of Library Relations
www.jstor.orgwww.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 collections267 publishers contributing to
the 446 titles in the archive11 Collections available, 26
disciplines, 16M journal pages
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Collections Available
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)
Multi-Discipline Collections Discipline-Specific Collections
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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):
Business14%
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 Bachelor’s 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)
Information Resources in General:
The Role of the Library
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The Google-Effect on Faculty?
14%
28%
21%
37%
The librarybuilding
Your online librarycatalog
A general-purposesearch enginesuch as Google
A specificelectronicresearch resource
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Library Functions Valued by Faculty
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
Gateway Archive Buyer
20002003
“ 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
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
Area studies Humanities Social Sciences Sciences
GatewayArchiveBuyer
“ 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
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
VerySmall
Small Medium Large VeryLarge
Not verydependentSomewhatdependent
Verydependent
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
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
AreaStudies
Humanities SocialSciences
Sciences
Not verydependentSomewhatdependent
Verydependent
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Degree of Dependence: 2000 vs. 2003
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2000 2003
Not verydependentSomewhatdependent
Verydependent
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And Is Expected to Continue to Decrease
Degree of dependence on your college or university library for your research
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
Today Five Years fromToday
Not verydependentSomewhatdependent
Verydependent
Information Resources in General:
Hard-Copy Collections
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Hard-Copy Collections Are Not Expected To Gain In Popularity
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2000 2003
Not WellSomewhatVery Well
“ The act of searching through hard-copy collections is much too time-consuming and onerous. I would welcome access to new tools”
2020
Huh?
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2000 2003
Not WellSomewhatVery Well
“ 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?
Yes
No
Don't Know / NoAnswer
“ 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?”
Information Resources in General:
Electronic Resources
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Usage of E-resources Varies Significantly By Discipline
0
50
100
150
200
250
Area Studies Humanities SocialSciences
Sciences
Number of times you have used computer-based electronic resources in the past year
2424
Even Within the Humanities
Number of times you have used computer-based electronic resources in the past year
0
50
100
150
200
250
Art History Philosophy History Literature
2525
Electronic Resources Have Gained in Importance
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2000 2003
Not WellSomewhatVery Well
“ Electronic research resources are invaluable research tools”
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And Dependence is Expected to Increase
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2000 2003
Not WellSomewhatVery Well
I will become increasingly dependent on electronic research resources in the future
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
84%
14%2%
ExtremelyImportant
SomewhatImportant
Not Important
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Electronic Archiving is Growing in Importance
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2000 2003
Not Well
SomewhatWellVery Well
“ 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
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Today Five Years from Today
NotImportant
SomewhatImportant
VeryImportant
Importance of Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Journals
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 library’s archiving function has, as was anticipated, declined somewhat, and is expected to decline further.
