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Middle East AcademicLibraries Symposium
Digital Resource Portfolios at US Research Universities
A Presentation to the Middle East Academic Libraries SymposiumAmerican 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: 30th (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 vsEvanston Campus Storage Cost per Linear Foot: $700
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 LibraryPhysical Library Use (Gate Count), 2012‒2013
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40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
Source: Facilities, Operations, and Stacks Management Department (FOSM), Northwestern University Library, 2013
Source: Access Services Department, Northwestern University Library, 2013
Northwestern University LibraryMaterials Checkouts by Month, 2012‒2013
October November December January February March April May June July August September 0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
16,000
18,000
20,000
Number of JSTOR Article Downloads by Month 2012
Jan-12 Feb-12 Mar-12 Apr-12 May-12 Jun-12 Jul-12 Aug-12 Sep-12 Oct-12 Nov-12 Dec-120
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
40000
45000
50000
Total for all JSTOR journals
Source: JSTOR Usage Statistics Site, 2013
Number of ScienceDirect Downloads by Month 2012
Jan-2012
Feb-2012
Mar-2012
Apr-2012
May-2012
Jun-2012
Jul-2012 Aug-2012
Sep-2012
Oct-2012
Nov-2012
Dec-2012
0
20000
40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
Source: Electronic Resources & Collection Analysis Department, Northwestern University Library, 2013
Top 10 ScienceDirect Titles, Download Stats by Month (2012)
Jan-2012
Feb-2012
Mar-2012
Apr-2012
May-2012
Jun-2012
Jul-2012
Aug-2012
Sep-2012
Oct-2012
Nov-2012
Dec-2012
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Cell
Neuron
The Lancet
Biomaterials
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Tetrahedron Letters
Molecular Cell
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
The Journal of Urology
NeuroImage
ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Article Retrievals 2012
Statistics Are Easy and Fun!
Sign Greeting Visitors to Packwood, KansasPhoto 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.
• The site went live in 2009.
Search on “dogs” in the Winterton Collection
A Guide to All of Northwestern’s Digitized Collections
Click 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 Service• 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 AcademicLibraries Symposium
