LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 1 Content beyond Types Letters and more Latin American Plants Initiative November 18, 2008 Buenos Aires.

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1 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 1 Content beyond Types Letters and more Latin American Plants Initiative November 18, 2008 Buenos Aires Anne Ray Collection Development Manager JSTOR

2 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 2 Overview A brief history of JSTOR’s collection development in the botanical sciences JSTOR’s botanical resources beyond specimens Our objectives for including further material Challenges Demonstration Potential uses for other content Potential linkages between plant specimens and other content

3 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 Collection Development History JSTOR began as a pilot project in 1994 with 10 economics and history titles:

4 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 Today… 16 collections 500 + publishers 873 full back runs of journals online, 250+ “in the queue” 50 disciplines Participating publishers span the globe: Including: Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa

5 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 Current Collections Multidisciplinary collections Arts & Sciences I Arts & Sciences II Arts & Sciences III Arts & Sciences IV Arts & Sciences V Arts & Sciences VI Arts & Sciences Complement Life Sciences Discipline-specific collections Biological Sciences Business Business II Ecology & Botany Health & General Sciences Language & Literature Mathematics & Statistics Music In process collections Ireland collection 19 th Century pamphlets Arts & Sciences VII Art Auction Catalogs

6 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 6 A brief history… Collaboration with the Ecological Society of America to create the Ecology & Botany Collection: 29 titles Biological Sciences Collection 170+ titles Disciplines include Botany, Ecology, Aquatic Sciences, Zoology, Cell Biology Life Sciences Collection formed by BioSci Collection and Health & General Science Collection Disciplines include Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Sciences (such as nursing and medicine)

7 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 7 Our aims for other material Identify other content that will make a strong complement to plant specimens For use by the botanical community For use by scholars in the humanities, social sciences, other field sciences, and other scientific disciplines Aid scholars in research across these disciplines Better represent the global scholarly community within the archive Provide a mechanism to help preserve botanical resources

8 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 8 Aims … JSTOR will serve as a strong platform for both the Plants and for other complementary material Core periodicals already available in botanical sciences make the Plants material a good fit Journal literature is already an essential part of botanical research Diversifying content is part of JSTOR’s overall strategy for developing collections Institutional partners for the Plants Initiative have other types of valuable content in their collection beyond plants Diaries Manuscripts Letters / correspondence Photographs Illustrations Maps Monographs Journals published by partner institutions More!

9 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 9 Maps

10 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 10 Photographs

11 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 11 Drawings & Illustrations

12 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 12 Demonstration …

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33 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 33 Angola

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35 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 35 Curtis’s botanical magazine

36 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 36 Individual collectors

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38 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 38 REF LINKING

39 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 39 Some potential challenges Creating a strategy for identifying content Identifying copyright holders Overcoming licensing challenges Representing the botanical community worldwide Creating balance Creating structures and functionality within the site so that scholars may discover and use the material Creating links between plant specimens and other material

40 LAPI Buenos Aires | Anne Ray | JSTOR | 18 nov 2008 40 Thank You Anne Ray Collection Development Manager JSTOR 149 5 th Avenue New York, NY 10010 Tel: (212)358-6400 Fax: (212)358-6499