Slide1 : Current Issues Linking: User Expectations and Publisher Benefits
JSTOR Participating Publishers Meeting
May 7, 2002
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The User experience now:
Growing reliance on electronic resources
Must repeat same searches in different places
Cannot search the full run of a journal (volume 1 – present) in one place
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What the User wants:
Ability to search and browse the full run of a journal in one place
Wants to be able to do this from either the current issues provider’s site or from JSTOR
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Current issues linking protects publisher revenue stream:
While users can search and browse current issues at JSTOR, they can access full-text articles hosted on another site only if they have an individual subscription or if their library subscribes
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Benefits:
Users can conduct more comprehensive searches in one place
Publishers increase the visibility of their current issues
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Over 140 journals on JSTOR have their current issues online
Current Issues Linking : Current Issues Linking Current issues linking pilot starts this month with Project MUSE --13 titles from 4 publishers:
Duke UP (American Literature, Hispanic American Historical Review, Transition)
Folger Shakespeare Library (Shakespeare Quarterly)
John Hopkins UP (American Journal of Mathematics, American Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies, ELH, Journal of the History of Ideas, MLN, Reviews in American History, World Politics)
University of North Carolina Press (Social Forces)
Current Issues Linking : Current Issues Linking Challenges of pilot:
Required the ability to accept, search, and display the metadata provided by MUSE
Needed to make changes to JSTOR’s public interface
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Current issues linking beyond the pilot
We have begin work with three more partners:
Blackwell Publishers (43 titles signed in JSTOR)
History Cooperative (4 titles signed in JSTOR)
University of Chicago Press (22 titles signed in JSTOR)
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Current Issues Linking : Current Issues Linking When a journal’s current issues are not online:
JSTOR has tentative plans to provide citation information for articles beyond the “moving wall”
Users would then be able to search the full run of the journal at JSTOR and would receive information on how to obtain access
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Participating libraries and individual subscribers have access to the “complete runs” of journals from selected publisher sites:
University of Chicago Press
Ecological Society of America (through Allen Press)
American Finance Association (Blackwell)
Review of Economic Studies (Blackwell)
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History Cooperative has plans to provide links to 3 journals in JSTOR (American Historical Review, Journal of American History, William & Mary Quarterly)
Project MUSE has plans to provide links to the back issues of the 13 journals in the pilot
Slide21 : JSTOR Participating Publishers Meeting
May 7, 2002