Training for Mortenson Associates l September 29, 2008 1 Commitment to Developing Nations Broadening and deepening access to e- resources in the developing

Training for Mortenson Associates l September 29, 20081

Commitment to Developing NationsBroadening and deepening access to e-resources in the developing world

Training for Mortenson AssociatesSeptember 29, 2008 Danielle Waugh Project Manager for JSTOR's Developing Nations Access Initiative


Our Discussion…

JSTOR: Mission and Origin

Content and Collection Development

A Shared Digital Archive

JSTOR’s African Access Initiative

JSTOR’s Developing Nations Access Initiative


JSTOR’s Mission Over Time

The First Decade:• Access & Archiving• Focus on preservation of and broad access to the legacy content

of printed journals in aggregations of high impact titles.

Continuing the Mission:- Reference linking & data mining projects to facilitate efficiency and research opportunities for scholars- Faculty and library studies to understand direction of scholarly communications and how online content is being

used.

A New Mission for the Present & Future:• Develop the JSTOR research platform as a means for scholarly

collaboration and advancement.


JSTOR’s Mission Today

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to:

- Help the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive;

- Preserve a record of scholarship for posterity and to advance research and teaching in cost–effective ways;

- Operate a research platform that deploys information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship.


JSTOR: A New Vision

JSTOR is an internationally collaborative research platform and archive of scholarly content that aims to provide:

- A trusted archive for the preservation of important scholarly material; - Diverse content from around the world;- An online space for the global academic community that will enhance scholarly collaboration


Participating as a Publisher

All content in the archive is scholarly and peer reviewed

An individual (researcher, library, publisher) inquires about journal inclusion in JSTOR

JSTOR contacts researchers/ individuals about the value and or need for a specific journal

Journal is then located via publisher or library and a license agreement is signed

Content is then digitized to be available in the archive

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Moving Wall

JSTOR is not a current issues database

There is a standard 3- 5 year Moving Wall

The moving wall is designed to help protect the economic sustainability of our content providers

Agreement with publishers allows participants to directly link to current issues with the publishers

Content is full text searchable in JSTOR but may be available directly with publisher

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Digitization Standards and Processes

Digitized more than 26 million pages of printed literature

Complete, clean, high-quality, functional digital replicas of print materials that can be trusted and relied upon by content owners, libraries, and users

• 600 dpi bitonal TIFF 6.0 images for every page • 300 dpi grayscale or color TIFF 6.0 images when bitonal images will

not accurately replicate the original page • Optical Character Resolution (OCR) files containing the full text for

every scanned page and data that allows highlighting of corresponding words on the page image. These files are on average 99.5% accurate1

• Highly accurate descriptive metadata files using an adapted version of the NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD which includes data for reference linking

Beginning to accept digitized and digital-first materials produced by publishers, libraries, museums, and other content owners

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Participation in JSTOR

Not- for-profit and commercial institutions can participate

Institutions are given a JSTOR classification (Very Large- Very Small)

There are two fees associated with participation

• Archive Capital Fee

• Annual Access Fee

All institutions are required to sign a JSTOR Participation Agreement

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JSTOR Collections

Multidisciplinary Collections

• Arts & Sciences I• Arts & Sciences II• Arts & Sciences III• Arts & Sciences IV• Arts & Sciences V• Arts & Sciences VI• Arts & Sciences Complement• Life Sciences• Biological Sciences• Health & General Sciences

Discipline Specific Collections • Business • Business II• Ecology & Botany• Language & Literature • Mathematics & Statistics• Music

Regional Collections

Ireland Collection

Aluka Collections: • African Plants• Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa• African Cultural Heritage and Landscapes


Regional Collections

Ireland Collection• Project encompasses 100 journals (including some no

longer publishing), 200 monographs, and 2,500 manuscript pages

• JSTOR, working closely with Queen’s University Belfast, will license in copyright works from publishers

• Queen’s will digitize the materials to JSTOR’s specifications; JSTOR will take responsibility for making them accessible and their long-term preservation

• Digitized pamphlets

• Majority of Journals currently have no online presence

Aluka Collections• African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes

• African Plants

• Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa


What is Aluka

Aluka is an initiative of JSTOR that seeks to aggregate digital

materials from and about Africa. The initiative has collaborated with educational, research, and cultural institutions around the world to develop the Aluka Collections.


Aluka Content

African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes • builds on digitization and preservation projects conducted in areas of cultural

importance across Africa. This community effort combines a rich set of visual materials with scholar-selected primary source materials and what will be the world's largest collection of African rock art

African Plants • The African Plants Initiative (API) brings together more than 50 institutions in

Africa, Europe, and the United States. The long-term goal is to build a comprehensive online research tool about African plants

Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa • a collaboration of more than 100 prominent scholars, senior archivists, museum

specialists, and engaged public intellectuals throughout the Southern African region and the world. The project is guided by regional and national committees, and supported by formal partnerships with many institutions


JSTOR and Aluka Integration

JSTOR and Aluka have been working closely together since 2006JSTOR has provided complimentary access to Aluka to all participating institutions since 2007All content is available to not-for-profit institutions in Africa free of chargeUsage within Africa has been steadily rising; now accounts for 12% of all Aluka access

JSTOR strives to increase access in developing nationsContinue to increase access in AfricaContinue to develop African contentCreate a truly multi-national archive

2008 – Open call for already digitized materials related to AfricaPurpose to broaden access and research in and about Africa of special collections from institutions and individuals


JSTOR Participation

Library Participants – 5,005• International – 2,648

• Domestic – 2,357

• Participating Countries- 137

Available Collections- 20• 808 Journals Online

• 48 Disciplines across collections• 176,525 Issues online• 3,953,735 Number of Articles

Participating Publishers • 563 publishers

• 813 available titles

• 1,115 signed titles


JSTOR’s Commitment to Developing Nations

African Access Initiative

Launched July 1, 2006

Waive participation fees for any not for profit institution on the continent of Africa

Access to all current and available content and content added over time

All current African participants received an AAF refund for fees paid in 2006

Broadening access to the archive by partnering with the Partnership with the Program for the Enhancement of Research Information


Barriers to expanding JSTOR access in Developing Countries:

Library infrastructure

Unstable IP’s

Bandwidth

Electricity/ Power outages

Qualified/ Rotating staff

Email

JSTOR is just another free resource

Pedi Mural Art, by Catherine A. M. Vogel African Arts © 1985


How JSTOR met the needs of the community

Implement Username/ password AccessIntroduce a Network Verification Form (provides JSTOR with better mechanisms for determining an institutions ISP)Working with Country Coordinators via the Program for the Enhancement of Research Information New and Advanced FeaturesTraining and training materials

Honing Technologies That Build Women's Economic Base, by

Sazile Mtshali Agenda


Journal Usage 2007

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Total Accesses from AAI Participants 2000-2007

30,432 46,518 174,875358,514

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Total Access for JSTOR Participating Institutions in Africa | 2006 - 2008*

Searches 680,058 1,151,262 1,061,705

Printing 553,965 1,229,815 972,839

Browsing 329,827 510,380 373,046

Page Views 2,075,552 4,370,757 3,138,387

2006 2007 2008*


Developing Nations Access Initiative

Continue to waive access for all not for profit institutions in Africa

Extending Access in the Developing Nations (No Cost)Afghanistan Timor-LesteHaiti TokelauKiribati TuvaluMyanmar Turkmenistan Papua New Guinea Vanuatu Solomon Islands Yemen

Extending Access in the Developing Nations (Low Cost)Cambodia Maldives SamoaGuyana Marshall Islands SurinameHonduras Micronesia Syrian Arab RepublicKosovo Moldova Tajikistan Kyrgyz Republic Mongolia Tonga Lao PDR Paraguay Uzbekistan


Participation in Africa


Thank YouDanielle Waugh Outreach Specialist149 5th AvenueNew York, NY 10010Tel: (212)358-6446Fax: (212)358-6499

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Training for Mortenson Associates l September 29, 2008 1 Commitment to Developing Nations Broadening and deepening access to e- resources in the developing