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JSTOR Music CollectionAnd Potential Links to Other Projects

Mellon All Projects MeetingMusicology and Music Information RetrievalJune 5-7,2007Heidi McGregorDirector, Strategic Planning


Today’s Discussion

Background

Who is JSTOR?

What is the JSTOR archive?

Music Collection

History and Development

Outcomes

Impact & Opportunity

How well served are musicologists?

Future

Growth in digital content

Integration and innovation


Background


Who is JSTOR?

JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technology.

Aims and ObjectivesReducing long-term costsPreserving and increasing access to scholarshipImproving productivity and efficiency in research and teachingEnabling new, innovative academic work

Current Areas of ActivityBuilding shared digital archives (JSTOR archive; Portico)Building/facilitating development of print repositoriesConducting/supporting researchSeeking new areas of need/opportunity

Role and approachThird-party that enables collective action Balance interestsCollaboration among those that share values


What is the JSTOR archive?

The JSTOR archive is a shared repository providing long-term preservation and access to scholarly literature.

ApproachIdentify and prioritize important academic journalsSecure rights from publishers; establish “moving wall”Convert from print to digital form (soon ingest born-digital)Release to participating institutions in collectionsMaintain preservation and delivery systems and practicesRe-invest (inward and outward facing)

Financial support

Foundation grants for specific collections and projectsInstitutional fees for preservation and accessAdditional fees (individual access, publisher sales service)


The JSTOR archive

2007729 titles online 23.8 million pages & 3.7 million articles47 disciplines covered (humanities, social sciences, sciences)Over 1.7 million images, thousands of maps & non-text contentCoverage from 1665 – 2007; most content between 1950 – 2003Full-text searchable; site-wide multi-user accessRecent functionality improvements: article language search; highlighted search terms; cut and paste capabilities; reference links

2001 (Music Collection conceived)169 titles online 8 million pages 18 disciplines covered


Community Support

Participating Publishers and Journals

Signed 900th journal on May 22, 2007

446 publishers• 368 US• 78 International

Participating Institutions

3,635 institutions in 117 countries • 1,828 US• 1,807 International

Users and Use

95,458,763 articles viewed (2006)

41,503,596 articles printed (2006)

Annual usage growth of approximately 45%


Music Collection


History and Development

2000 -- 2001 Rising interest in music library community

Conversation initiated by RILM

Project conceived

RILM leads advisory group and title selection

JSTOR applies and receives grants from Mellon and Hewlett

2002 – 2003 Introductions and invitations to publishers (RILM)

Agreement negotiations

Print acquisition and conversion to digital form

Development work (language challenges)

October 28, 2003 Music Collection Launch

Music titles also part of Arts & Sciences III Collection


Music Collection Titles

19th-Century MusicActa MusicologicaAmerican MusicArchiv fur MusikwissenschaftAsian MusicBlack Music Research JournalCambridge Opera JournalEarly MusicEarly Music HistoryEthnomusicologyGalpin Society JournalInternational Review of Aesthetics and Sociology of MusicJournal of Music TheoryJournal of MusicologyJournal of the American Musicological SocietyJournal of the Royal Musicological Association

Latin American Music ReviewLeonardo Music JournalLied und populare KulturMusic & LettersMusic AnalysisMusic Theory SpectrumMusical QuarterlyMusical TimesNotesPerspectives in New MusicPopular MusicRevue de MusicologieStudia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum HungaricaeTempo

Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis Yearbook for Traditional Music


Outcomes

Publisher and title participation

26 publishers and 32 titles• 90% invited titles signed• 585,000 pages; 148,000 articles (+ annual updates)• Moving wall: 3-5 years

Additional incremental growth• 6 music titles in new collections

• Black Perspective in Music, Computer Music Journal, Journal of Research in Music Education, Lenox Avenue: A Journal of Interartistic Inquiry, Music Educators Journal, Revue belge de Musicologie

• Occasional requests for more (6-12 per year)


Outcomes

Institutional participation

1,500 institutions (93 Music; 1,407 Arts & Sciences III)

Annual cost per title (A&S III) ranges from $0 to $66 *

Maximum annual cost per page is less than $0.01

Cost per download (Very Large institutions) is less than $0.01

Usage (since launch)

6.5 million articles viewed

1.95 million articles printed

60% of articles accessed at least once

* $66 is paid by relatively few Very Large institutions; most pay $50 as Charter JSTOR participants.


Cumulative Music and A&S III Participation

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Music A&S III


Efforts to Increase Use and Efficiency

Linking from core resourcesRILM, Music Index (2002-2003) – 1,665 links during April 2007RILM retrospective indexing project

Visibility in search enginesGoogle and Google Scholar (2006) – 545,454 links during April 2007Microsoft Live Academic (soon in 2007)

Total external links during April 2007 = 955,326Article views (resulting from internal and external links) = 494,947

Expanding access optionsLaunched Publisher Sales Service in December 20067 music journals (and growing)Fees range from $7-$12 per articleMusical Times is highest selling journal in entire program (average of 65 articles sold per month)


Efforts to Increase Use and Efficiency

Capture and linking of references

35% of the collection complete (226,273 pages)234,834 citations; 7,339 (3%) linked within JSTORRemainder cite:

• Journals not included in JSTOR• Books• Musical scores• Musical performances• Primary sources


Impact and Opportunity


What impact are we having? // How can we have an impact?

2006 survey of US faculty conducted by Odyssey on behalf of JSTOR and Ithaka

Impact of JSTOR

Awareness and impression

Use of JSTOR

Level of satisfaction

Areas for improvement/Opportunities

Recommendations for JSTOR (and others!)

Trends and expectations


JSTOR Impact


Awareness of JSTOR varies tremendously by discipline…

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Overall Engineers Psychologists Musicologists Biologists Sociologists Classicists Historians PoliticalScientists

Economists


But awareness of JSTOR among music faculty has increased over time, as its image has improved as well

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Aware Use Postive image (among those aware)


Number of occasions in the past year that music faculty have used JSTOR(Base: Music faculty using JSTOR)

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JSTOR more often used to search for journal articles of which people are unaware(Percent stating extremely or very likely, Base: Music faculty aware of JSTOR)

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How likely are you to use JSTOR to access journal articles that youalready know about?

How likely are you to use JSTOR to conduct a search for journalarticles of which you are unaware?


Is JSTOR primary or secondary destination for research among music faculty?(Base: Music faculty using JSTOR)

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Primary Starting Point Secondary Destination Reachedthrough Links from Other Websites


Music faculty use both current issues and back issues, but many are frustrated with their access options—a fact that hasn’t changed much since 2003(Percent of music faculty believing that the statement describes their point of view extremely or very well)

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The information in backissues of academicjournals is extremely

valuable to me.

I w ould make more andbetter use of academicjournals if it w ere easierand less time consumingto get the information I

w anted from collectionsof back issues.

An electronic collectionof academic journalsthat only makes back

issues available is moreuseful to me than an

electronic collection thatonly makes currentissues available.

A substantial problemfor me is that journalarticles I need are

sometimes not availableat my university or in mylocale and I have to get

them from anothersource.

I'm often frustrated byelectronic collections ofjournals because moreoften not the article I

need isn't in thecollections.

An electronic collectionof academic journals

that only makes currentissues available is more

useful to me than anelectronic collection ofacademic journals that

only makes back issuesavailable.

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Opportunities


How music faculty find information in journals“How often do you use each of the methods listed below to find information in academic journals?”

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Following citations fromother journal articles

Searching in published,hard copy directories or

bibliographies

Searching journaldatabases on a computer

for citation and thenfinding the article in hard-

copy or microform

By using Google By using Google Scholar

Often Occasionally


Music faculty believe JSTOR can increase its value by adding more content

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More journals in samefields

Add current issues Add primary sourcedocuments

Add books

Music faculty viewing factor as increasing JSTOR’s value a great deal

•Nearly nine in ten music faculty believe that JSTOR will become significantly more valuable if more journals in fields already covered are offered and if current issues are made available

•Strong majorities of music faculty view the addition of primary source documents and books as valuable activities for JSTOR to pursue


Music faculty believe JSTOR can increase its value by adding more content

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Gateway to scholarlycontent

Non-English titles in myfield

Journals in disciplines notcurrently included

Preserving contentpertaining to yourinstitution's locale


•There was strong support for JSTOR becoming more of a gateway to scholarly content, not just an archive of journals

•Many music faculty members thought there was value in including more disciplines in JSTOR

•Majorities of music faculty expressed interest in the possibility of having non-English titles and local content accessible through JSTOR


Music faculty are less interested in JSTOR’s potential to offer interactive content

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Allowing me toaccess the article

preprints of mycolleagues

Offering accessthrough its website to

newer contentsources such as

blogs or podcasts

Linking to datasets Helping me share myarticle preprints with

colleagues

Sharing my list offavorite articles with

colleagues andstudents


•Only a third of music faculty were interested in accessing the article preprints of their colleagues through JSTOR

•Few music faculty respondents believed JSTOR could be made more valuable by offering access to blogs or podcasts

•Fewer than a fifth of music faculty thought that a potential JSTOR investment in article sharing would be valuable


Frequently used tools for teaching and research are not always perceived as important but are generally expected to grow in importance

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Online catalogs forother college library

Databases ofacademic journals

Abstracts andindexing databases

A freely availableonline repository ofmaterials from your

discipline

Primary sourcessuch as archives and

historical records

Course managementsystems such as

Blackboard

Often/Occasional Use

High importance to research and teaching now

High importance to research and teaching in five years


Interactive teaching resources are not frequently used, but are expected to grow in importance

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Course syllabi preparedby peers

Your colleagues'professional websites

Wikipedia, blogs andother types of interactive,

community sites

Traditional card catalog atyour college library

E-Books

Often/Occasional Use

High importance to research and teaching now

High importance to research and teaching in five years


The Future


Growth in Digital Content for Music

Should JSTOR invest in expanding the collection?

Faculty survey suggests more journals valuable

MLA and RILM interest

Other forms of content appear to be valuable (reference links; faculty interest)

Books

Primary source materials

Other content?

Next steps

Evaluate priorities

Stimulate and leverage community action


Integration and Innovation

What can we do for together to increase impact?Federated searchingIntelligent linkingAudio and text integrationImproved faceted navigationImproved intersection with course management systemsConsider unique needs of field (device compatibility, for example)Sharing platform and services

Experiments to stimulate ideas: JSTOR – ARTstor search (http://www.jstor.org/search/)Faceted navigation (enhanced by NLP techniques) (http://sandbox.jstor.org/)NINES (http://staging.nines.org/collex/browse)

Topic mapping (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lemur/science/)


Thank YouHeidi McGregorDirector, Strategic [email protected]

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