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Author: Selden Deemer
Posted: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:38:40 -0500 (
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Very welcome news for a major resource, JSTOR. The JSTOR have developed
very thorough documentation (see links below) for all aspects of this
process.
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Selden Deemer, Library Systems Administrator PHONE: 404-727-0271
Emory University Libraries FAX: 404-727-0827
Atlanta, Georgia EMAIL: />
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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:28:35 -0500
From: Beth LaPensee />
To: />
Subject: JSTOR Interface Developments
Dear JSTOR Participant,
We are pleased to announce today's release of improvements to the JSTOR
interface. This release includes the addition of a citation management
tool and improvements to the accessibility of JSTOR for visually
impaired and learning disabled users. In addition, the release also
includes some minor changes to the journal information pages and
detailed collection lists as well as a user survey.
CITATION MANAGEMENT TOOL
The citation management tool was created in an effort to better serve
the academic community by making the JSTOR interface compatible with a
suite of commonly used bibliographic software packages. Many JSTOR users
have expressed an interest in this functionality, which will allow them
to export bibliographic information for JSTOR journal content in their
preferred format. The exported data is compatible with the popular
programs EndNote, Reference Manager, and ProCite, with the flexibility
to adapt to other bibliographic software in the future. We have also
developed the filters that are necessary for importing JSTOR citations
into these three programs. The exported citation information is also
available for users to e-mail or save as a text file. Additionally, the
citations can be formatted in either a printer-friendly format, or a
tab-delimited format for use in a spreadsheet program such as Excel.
Further information about this feature has been added to the website.
Please see:
Saving JSTOR Citations
http://www.jstor.org/help/saved_citations_list_help.html
Exporting JSTOR Citations to Bibliographic Management Software
http://www.jstor.org/help/export_help.html
Downloading and Installing JSTOR Filters
http://www.jstor.org/help/filters_help.html
ACCESSSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS
Addressing the accessibility of the JSTOR archive for visually impaired
and learning disabled users has long been a goal for JSTOR. Owing to
our archival mission, our journal content is delivered as image-based
PDF files in order to maintain a faithful replication of the original.
(For more information about this, please visit
http://www.jstor.org/about/images.html.) While the image-based format
allows us to create a faithful replication of the printed journal, this
format cannot easily be accessed using assistive technologies such as
screen readers or document scanners.
Today we have released the first phase of accessibility improvements to
the JSTOR interface. The modifications that we have made thus far
represent a major stride in our efforts to make all pages within the
JSTOR website compliant with Section 508 of The Rehabilitation Act and
W3C WAI Priority 1 standards. With this release, the pages a user
encounters in the process of retrieving JSTOR content, as well as many
other pages within the website, are compliant. We will continue making
improvements to the site in order to further the accessibility and
usability of JSTOR and look forward to hearing your comments and
suggestions.
In addition to the general interface improvements, users may now
download journal content in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). These
image-based files are compatible with document scanners, such as
Kurzweil and Openbook. It is possible to set this format as a download
preference in order to streamline the process of accessing journal
content in the JSTOR archive.
More detailed information about our accessibility improvements,
including instructions for using TIFFs with document scanners, has been
added to the site. Please see:
JSTOR and Accessibility
http://www.jstor.org/about/accessibility.html
Downloading and Reading JSTOR Journals with Document Readers
http://www.jstor.org/help/tiff-download.html
Site Navigation and Access Keys
http://www.jstor.org/help/access-keys.html
JOURNAL INFORMATION
In addition to the improvements mentioned above, we have also added the
ISSN, OCLC record number, and LCCN for each title to the journal
information pages and detailed collection lists. We have also changed
how we describe JSTOR's journal coverage on these pages. As you are
aware, coverage varies from journal to journal, but most of the journals
we include have "moving walls," typically between 3-5 years. There are
exceptions in a small number of cases where publishers have elected to
have "fixed walls" or where JSTOR coverage presently extends beyond the
moving wall period. These exceptions are explained in detail at
http://www.jstor.org/about/movingwall.html. For examples of these
changes, please see:
Journal Information Page for The American Historical Review
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00028762.html
Journal Information Page for Transition
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00411191.html
We are especially excited to offer these new features, as there has been
great interest expressed for each of these items among librarians and
users. Your continued comments, feedback, and suggestions are integral
to JSTOR's interface development work and will help us to provide a more
positive user experience.
In addition to releasing these features, JSTOR is very interested in
learning how those in the scholarly community are using electronic
resources. We have posted a survey at
http://support.jstor.org/surveys/research.survey.html to gather
information on this topic from our users. The survey is also linked
from the top of many pages on the JSTOR site. The survey will be
available through Dec. 18th.
If you have any comments or questions about the items released today,
please feel free to contact JSTOR User Services at />
or (888)388-3574.
Regards,
Beth LaPensee
Manager of Interface Development, JSTOR
301 E. Liberty St., Suite 310
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2262
(734)998-9101 or (888)388-3574
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JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org
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