Journals under consideration, sorted by title; sorted by LC call number
Criteria to be used
Bibliography
 

JSTOR is a long-standing, stable provider of access to electronic versions of scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences.  Wesleyan University Library has many of these journals in the stacks in bound paper format.  In order to free up much-needed space in Olin and in the Science Library, the library is undertaking a project to determine which bound volumes, available electronically through JSTOR, to consider withdrawing from the library's collection.  These bound volumes would be retrievable from the Five Colleges Library Depository, an off-site storage facility.  The library will retain bound volumes of all titles for the last 12 years to provide full access to titles with moving or fixed walls.

Project plan

The plan is to first develop criteria to use in determining whether or not to retain bound journals to which Wesleyan also has access through JSTOR.  These criteria will be distributed to faculty for their comments and suggestions.  Once the initial criteria are finalized, the group will use them to determine whether to retain bound volumes of each journal title available through JSTOR.  All journal titles will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.  It is expected that some will continue to be available at Wesleyan both onsite and online in JSTOR, whereas for others bound volumes will be retrievable from the Five Colleges Library Depository (with the most recent 12 years retained by the library).

Five Colleges Library Depository

The Wesleyan University Library is an affiliate member of the Five College Library Depository.  The five colleges are Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  Affiliate members include Middlebury, Trinity and Connecticut Colleges, and the 38 members of the Boston Library Consortium.  The Five Colleges Consortium manages the Depository, which is a high-density storage facility for materials from the five institutions, and for many bound volumes of journals available electronically through JSTOR.  Wesleyan's membership in the Depository allows members of the Wesleyan community to request delivery of bound volumes of JSTOR journals from the Depository, to use in the library for up to one week.  For more information about the Depository, go to:  http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/depository/ 

Working group

The members of the working group are:  Helen Aiello, Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian; Michaelle Biddle, Head of Preservation Services; Diane Klare, Head of Reference; EunJoo Lee, Access Services Librarian; Alan Nathanson, Olin Reference Librarian; and Pat Tully, Associate University Librarian.  

Contact information

For more information or to offer suggestions about the project, please contact Pat Tully at extension 3887, or email her at ptully@wesleyan.edu.  If you prefer, contact your department's library liaison: http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/services/facliais.html