Libri Revelio II:
Interrogating our JSTOR Books DDA activation
Harold Colson
International Relations Librarian, U.S. History Librarian & eBook Coordinator
hcolson@ucsd.edu
DDA
purchased,
Bigbooks
Three
Aggregators
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Aggregators
January
–
May
10,
2015 Purchases,
Combined DDA
Title
DDA
Title
Purchases
(three major DDA
aggregators)
Combined
Title Purchases
Daily,
January
1,
2015
->
Daily,
January
1,
2015
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Daily, January 1, 2015 -->
Our JSTOR Environment
Almost complete coverage of archive holdings
Student enrollment: 31,600
Over 156,000 searches in 2014
Over 447,000 full-text article requests in 2014
DDA Activation & Our Historic (2014) JSTOR Usage Cycle
Source: JSTOR
“All
In”
JSTOR
Books
“All“All
In” JSTOR
Books
In”
JSTOR
DDA
“AllArrives
In” JSTOR
DDA
Arrives
Books DDA Arrives
Books DDA Arrives
Interrogation Says…
JSTOR drives
Calendar matters
Demand skews
Curriculum shows
JSTOR saves
UCSD PDF View & Download Referring Sources, April-May 2015
Source: JSTOR
JSTORCOUNTER
COUNTERReports:
Reports:Tracking/Projecting
Tracking/Projecting
2015
Usage
JSTOR
2015
Demand
JSTOR
Tracking
/Projecting
2015
Usage
Used
Books
(6731)
Ranked
By Chapter
Views/Downloads
Used
Books
Ranked
By Chapter
Views/Downloads
20% of used books
20%
used
books
(4%of
of all
books)
account
for books)
70%
(4%
of all
of all uses
account for 70%
of all uses
25,000 more titles have no uses
Highest Demand JSTOR Titles By Total Chapter Views & Downloads
Title
Uses Purchased
Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition
1463
17-Apr
Mexicans in the Making of America
623
29-Apr
Quentin Tarantino Interviews, Revised and Updated
275
24-Sep
The Black Death in Egypt and England
237
4-Apr
Androgyny in Late Ming and Early Qing Literature
225
6-Apr
Sports and the Racial Divide African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change
212
14-Aug
Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China
206
6-Apr
Not the Triumph but the Struggle The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete
198
14-Aug
The Power of Knowledge How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
196
6-Apr
Galileo Watcher of the Skies
167
5-Apr
Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China
162
5-Apr
The History and Sociology of Genocide Analyses and Case Studies
158
5-Apr
First Nights Five Musical Premiers
141
26-Sep
Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate Memories of Empire in a New Global Context
139
6-Apr
Making a Living in the Middle Ages The People of Britain 850–1520
127
6-Apr
Architecture since 1400
121
7-Apr
Average cost of DDA purchases
(1512) of JSTOR Books: $63.56
Average cost of DDA purchases*
(387) from aggregators: $96.29 to
$120.49 for owned copy plus $20.75 to
$26.43 for each prior short-term loan
*2015 YTD
JSTOR Books Growth & Events Since Activation
Cataloging C
Cataloging B
Promos
Spring Term
Endgame
Cataloging A
Fall Term
Start
Promotional Image, Fall 2015