Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Expanded Access to Jstor


Facilitating Access to JSTOR
Over the past year, JSTOR has undertaken a number of new initiatives aimed at improving access to JSTOR for affiliated users and expanding access options for unaffiliated users. Listed below are three of the most recent.
Register & Read Beta
Register & Read is a new, experimental program that offers free, read-online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a free MyJSTOR account.
Register & Read includes a subset of the content on JSTOR–currently 75 titles from more than 40 publishers.  Additional titles will be added at a later date.  With your  MyJSTOR account  you will be able to add to a reading shelf  up to three items in journals not under subscription by Marist.  There are no fees for this service. 
For more information on Register & Read, please visit the Register & Readpage or view this 1 minute 20 second video, "Register & Read (New!)"

Early Journal Content
JSTOR  is making journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 385  journals, representing over  6% of the content on JSTOR.  For Marist, the Early Journal Content provides access to 195 additional titles. 
Early Journal Content is available for use by anyone, without registration and regardless of institutional affiliation. Making this Early Journal Content freely available is part of JSTOR's ongoing work to expand access to content on JSTOR, particularly for individuals who are not affiliated with academic institutions or libraries. For more information, view this 2 minute 17 second video, " Free Early Journal Content."
The James A. Cannavino LIbrary has integrated the Jstor Free Early Journal Content into Fox Hunt and into the regular Jstor Search interface.

  Institution Finder
JSTOR's  Institution Finder gives users who have not yet logged in to JSTOR the ability to locate his/her institution from a list on the JSTOR website, log in to that host institution, and be returned to the page they started on at JSTOR.
The of Institution Finder is to smooth authentication for the growing number of end users who are coming directly to JSTOR, unauthenticated, from a variety of places such as Google, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia.
For specific instructions, view this 1 minute 11 second video, "How to Use Institution Finder".



Friday, October 26, 2012

Pathfinders Proving Popular


Course-specific Pathfinders have been used by students over 7,325 times so far this semester.  More than  50 classes are using Pathfinders and they have been very well received by students.   Most faculty members have linked their Pathfinder on the left-hand navigation bar in their iLearn course, making it easily accessible to students.

For courses with multiple sections, Pathfinders are particularly effective.  A single guide created for Business 100 has been used heavily by multiple sections.

Some courses have chosen to use the majors Subject Guides instead of having a course-specific Pathfinder created.   These, too, can be easily embedded into iLearn.   The majors subject guides have been used over 10,000 times so far this semester.

Please consider having a Pathfinder made for courses you are teaching in Spring 2013.  For more information about thePathfinder process, please consult the previous post on the subject.   (http://cannavinofaculty.blogspot.com/2012/07/ask-us-for-custom-library-pathfinder.html)