Bruce Heterick, Director of Library Relationswww.jstor.org CONCERT 2004 Taipei, Taiwan November 11, 2004

2 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

3 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”

4 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

5 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 Multi-Discipline Collections Discipline-Specific Collections

6 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% History12% Economics10% Sociology 9% Political Science 9%

7 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.

8 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

9 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

11 The Google-Effect on Faculty?

12 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’

13 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’

14 Dependence Varies by Institution Size Degree of dependence on your college or university library for your research

15 But Relatively Little By Discipline Degree of dependence on your college or university library for your research

16 Degree of Dependence: 2000 vs. 2003

17 And Is Expected to Continue to Decrease Degree of dependence on your college or university library for your research

Information Resources in General: Hard-Copy Collections

19 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”

20 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”

21 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?”

Information Resources in General: Electronic Resources

23 Usage of E-resources Varies Significantly By Discipline Number of times you have used computer-based electronic resources in the past year

24 Even Within the Humanities Number of times you have used computer-based electronic resources in the past year

25 Electronic Resources Have Gained in Importance “Electronic research resources are invaluable research tools”

26 And Dependence is Expected to Increase I will become increasingly dependent on electronic research resources in the future

Electronic Archiving

28 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.”

29 Importance of Archiving is Widely Recognized

30 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.”

31 Electronic Archiving is Growing in Importance Importance of Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Journals

Conclusions

33 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.

34 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.

Thank You Bruce Heterick, Director of Library Relations