Middle East Academic Libraries Symposium

Digital Resource Portfolios at US Research Universities A Presentation to the Middle East Academic Libraries Symposium American University of Sharjah, October 24, 2013 by Jeffrey Garrett Northwestern University Library

 Three campuses: main campus in Evanston (right); a second campus in Chicago (right, in the background); and a third in Doha, Qatar  8,000 full-time undergraduates and 8,000 full-time graduate students  2,500 full-time faculty  Undergraduate Tuition: $15,040/quarter (2013)  Annual budget: $1.6 billion  $500 million in sponsored research (2013)  World rank: 30 th (Shanghai Ranking 2013) About Northwestern University

Removing Print Journal Backfiles to Northwestern’s Remote Storage Facility, the Oak Grove Library Center (or OGLC, Capacity 1.9 Million Volumes) Building Remote Storage Cost per Linear Foot: $50 vs Evanston Campus Storage Cost per Linear Foot: $700 of Going Digital Advantages of Going Digital

Tech-Savvy Staff Replaces Clerical Staff Northwestern staff member Paul Clough working with the Kirtas book scanner

Electronic Resources vs. Total Materials Expenditures, 1993–2011: Yearly Increases in Average Expenditures per Library

Northwestern University Library Physical Library Use (Gate Count), 2012 ‒ 2013 Source: Facilities, Operations, and Stacks Management Department (FOSM), Northwestern University Library, 2013

Source: Access Services Department, Northwestern University Library, 2013 Northwestern University Library Materials Checkouts by Month, 2012 ‒ 2013

Number of JSTOR Article Downloads by Month 2012 Source: JSTOR Usage Statistics Site, 2013

Number of ScienceDirect Downloads by Month 2012 Source: Electronic Resources & Collection Analysis Department, Northwestern University Library, 2013

Top 10 ScienceDirect Titles, Download Stats by Month (2012)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Article Retrievals 2012

Statistics Are Easy and Fun! Sign Greeting Visitors to Packwood, Kansas Photo by Nathan Garrett, August 2007

Leasing vs. Subscription Relationships Advantages of leasing arrangements –Smaller cost point per year –Budgetary flexibility, e.g. you can cancel at will –Outsourced curation, i.e. expert selection and portfolio management all included! Disadvantages of leasing arrangements –No equity in the product, so when you cancel, it’s gone! Advantage of subscriptions –You own what you pay for, which grows over time Disadvantage of subscription –No backfile! This must be purchased or leased—or acquired over time

Academic OneFile from Gale Cengage

Current Content AND Archive Access through Leases

A Purchase Model for Digital Journal Content: Periodicals Archive Online from ProQuest

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC): A Large Midwestern Consortium 15 Universities  38,000 Faculty  102,000 Graduate Students 337,000 Undergraduates

 15 Universities (including Northwestern)  Almost half a million students and faculty  $8 billion per year in Research and Development  Responsible for about one in seven PhDs in the United States  Other big consortia nationwide: LYRASIS, ASERL, CDL... The CIC in the US National Context

CIC Consortial Licensing and Purchasing

The Times of London Backfile: Consortially Negotiated Purchase

Example of a Highly Specialized Purchasing Consortium

Consortial Purchases, Leases, and Subscriptions

DigiZeitschriften: A German Version of JSTOR

Full-text Searchable DigiZeitschriften Journal from 1864

All DigiZeitschriften Content Is Discoverable through OPAC and Other Library Searches

Founded in 2008 as a collaboration of CIC members and the University of California system to establish a repository to archive and share their digitized collections. Hathi has expanded to include additional partners and to provide those partners with an easy means to archive their digital content. This includes both in copyright and public domain materials digitized by Google, the Internet Archive, and Microsoft, as well as through in-house initiatives. HathiTrust aims to build a comprehensive archive of published literature from around the world and develop shared strategies for managing and developing their digital and print holdings in a collaborative way. 10,822,424 total volumes 5,672,064 book titles 282,456 serial titles 3,787,848,400 pages 485 terabytes 128 miles 8,793 tons 3,472,646 volumes (~32% of total) in the public domain Source: HathiTrust Statistics and Visualizations, accessed October 19, 2013

Languages of the HathiTrust Digital Library English 3,025,887 Note that of the 117,395 titles in Arabic, only 5,665 are in the public domain.

Current HathiTrust Members

How Can My Institution Join HathiTrust?

Other Sources of Open Access Content: The University of California Press E-Books Collection, 1982–2004 The University of California Press allows open access to more than 700 of its scholarly monographs. And catalog records are available.

DigiZeitschriften: A German Version of JSTOR

Alternate Spellings of “heaven” Found in Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Virtual Modernization: A Northwestern-ProQuest Collaboration

Virtual Modernization I: 16 Documented Forms for “heaven”

Virtual Modernization II: Boolean Searching (ex.: “heaven” w/in 3 words of “hell”) Using Virtual Modernization

Northwestern Digitizes the Humphrey Winterton Collection 7,610 digitized photographs, 230 glass lantern slides, and other materials depicting life in Africa 1860–1960. The original materials are housed in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern, the largest separate library for the study of Africa in the world. Supported by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Institute for Museum and Library Services The site went live in 2009.

Search on “dogs” in the Winterton Collection

A Guide to All of Northwestern’s Digitized Collections ClickClick to see the guide!

The Importance of Finding Partners for Digital Projects

A Commercial-Noncommercial Partnership Promising an Open Access Product: Northwestern & RevealDigital

A Final Note on Digital Preservation: What’s Out There Your Own Institutional Repository Portico—An E-journal Preservation ServicePortico The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) –“DPN uses a federated approach to preservation. The higher education community has created many digital repositories to provide long-term preservation and access. By replicating multiple dark copies of these collections in diverse nodes, DPN protects against the risk of catastrophic loss due to technology, organizational or natural disasters.” Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) –“The Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) consortium is committed to the creation and management of a preservation repository that will aggregate academic and research content from many institutions.”

THANK YOU! Jeffrey Garrett, Associate University Librarian for Special Libraries, Northwestern University

Middle East Academic Libraries Symposium