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JSTOR – Journal STORage
How to Get More, Out of JSTOR
Prepared by: Walter Zimmerman
Electronic Services LibrarianThe D. B. Weldon Library
Summer 2006
JSTOR: An Online Archive
of Scholarly Journalshttp://www.jstor.org/
www.jstor.org
What is JSTOR? A collection of fully-scanned academic
journals, front cover to back cover A fully searchable database containing
600 journals with another 150+ planned by the end of 2008
Linked by OpenURL from most of our bibliographic databases
JSTOR… covers from the first issue of a journal up to
approx. 5 years ago – a “moving wall” is searchable by title, author, text words,
abstract words (where available,) but has no standardized subject headings
is browsable by volume, issue, table of contents contains all materials including book reviews,
instructions to authors, covers, advertisements, etc.
is a very good way to find book reviews, especially of older books
How Journals Are Selected The titles included in JSTOR have been
selected based on the following criteria: the number of institutional subscribers a
journal has citation analysis recommendations from experts in the field the length of time that the journal has been
published.
Subject Areas*
*As of July 2005
A Bit of History JSTOR began as a project of the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation Started with 10 journals in economics and history
with ¾ million pages 1995 – incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation 1997 – added many more subject areas and
opened up access to academic institutions/research libraries
More subject areas are still being added New, improved search software introduced in
January 2005
Advantages of JSTOR Complete journal runs are full-text searchable Saves shelf space and no re-shelving is necessary Available 24/7/365 Always in perfect condition:
No markings or No curvature when printing (unlike photocopying) Never a missing page or article as with print
highlighting
Cross-disciplinary searching – e.g.:Classics with PhilosophyHistory with Political ScienceEconomics with Finance and BusinessArt & Art History with Performing ArtsSociology with Population StudiesOr you can search ALL journals at once
“Reference Linking” coming in next few years
Western’s JSTOR Collections*
*As of July 2006
Here are some examples of some very long runs in
just a few of the disciplines
Anthropology/Archaeology American Anthropologist (1888-1997) Journal of American Folklore 1888-1999) Folklore (1878-1999*) Journal of the Royal Anth. Instit. Of Gt. Brit. and
Ireland (1872-present*) American Journal of Archaeology (1897-1999) Journal of Hellenic Studies (1880-1999) Journal of the American Oriental Society (1843-
2001) * indicates title changes, best-known title shown
Economics American Economic Review (1886-
2002*) Economic Journal (1891-1999) Journal of Political Economy (1892-
2000) Quarterly Journal of Economics
(1886-1999)
Geography Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science (1890-1999) [566 volumes, 24,814 articles ]
Geographical Journal (1855-1999*) Geographical Review (1859-1999*)
History American Historical Review (1895-
1999*) English Historical Review (1886-
1999*) William & Mary Quarterly (1892-
2000)
Language and Literature Modern Language Notes (1886-
2004*) ELH (1934-2004*) PMLA (1884-2001*) American Journal of Semitic Languages
and Literatures (1895-2002*)
Law Harvard Law Review (1887-2001) International and Comparative Law
Quarterly (1896-1999*) Yale Law Journal (1891-2001)
Philology American Journal of Philology (1897-
1999) Harvard Journal of Classical Philology
(1890-2000)
Philosophy Ethics/International Journal of Ethics
(1890-2001*) Transactions of the Philosophical
Society (1665-1999*) Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society (1769-1999) Mind (1876-1997)
Browsing JSTOR One can be led to JSTOR from the
Shared Catalogue
Holdings available in JSTOR
Note other electronic holdings
where you can browse the contents
In this case, recent volumes are from Project MUSE
Suppose you are looking for an article in ELH, 2(3), pp. 267-89, Nov., 1935
which brings you to…
…or one can be led from a database search to a specific article
brings you to…
JSTOR as a Database You can also get to articles in JSTOR
by searching JSTOR directly: Basic Search Advanced Search – more powerful Expert Search – most flexible
Basic Search Good for simple requests - e.g.
“Color Purple” AND stereotyp??????? Canad???? AND "middle power" AND
Pearson AND Holmes but does not allow for specifying
where terms are found, which subject areas are searched, which article types you want, or between what dates
Basic Search/Help Topics
Help Topics for Search
Search Help ExamplesHelp with wildcards/truncation
Help with Phrase Searching
Advanced Search Screen
Journal Selection You can choose a whole subject
category by clicking in the box
Journal Selection …or you can choose specific titles
Expert Search
Expert Search Example
And if you only want articles and not book reviews,etc.
Search Results
And you can sort in several ways
Finding Book Reviews Looking for a book review of Holding
Government Bureaucracies Accountable by B. Rosen, published in 1982, 1989, and 1998
Book Review Search
Here are the first 3 of 5 reviews found in 0.39 seconds:
Viewing the Article
There are six options. Click on…1. underlined article title first page 2. citation bibliographic citation and stable URL3. page of first match page where any of the search
terms first appears4. print brings up print in pdf format option5. download brings up download options (pdf, TIFF, or
PostScript)6. save citation allows you to save several citations
which you can then e-mail to yourself, save in RefWorks, or save to put on a web page
1
2 3 4 5 6
Next and Previous Pages Click on icon to go forward
But to Print a Whole Article
1. Click on
2. and then on
3. and then on the Adobe Acrobat print icon
And here isthe PDF result:
Things to Know “Before You Go” JSTOR is NOT part of the free internet, so… it must be searched either on campus or by using the proxy
server – https://www.lib.uwo.ca/offcampus/ If you e-mail citations to print at home, you must send them
to your UWO e-mail address, open the proxy server, and finally, open your UWO mail within the proxy, using “Quick Links” on the Western Libraries home page
then
Saving Citations
You can create bibliographies of desired articles or use “stable URLs” for other purposes by using the “Save Citation” feature
which then lets you click on “View Saved Citations”
Viewing Saved Citations You have the option to e-mail, save
as a text-tile, or open in a new window
RefWorks
JSTOR is compatible with RefWorks Follow the steps on the next slide If you don’t have a RefWorks
account, you will be able to create one after sending the citations to RefWorks
Part of the Help for Saved Citations
Send to Your Western E-mailIf you do this, you can print your articles at home
…and Open Your E-mail
And clicking on this link (a) on-campus, or (b) within the proxy server, will open the article…
…and here it is:
Remember, JSTOR is… never up-to-date, but some databases are linked from
JSTOR to other full-text sources such as Project MUSE so that you can sometimes “browse” in JSTOR beyond the 5-year “moving wall”
JSTOR Facts
First Quarter2006
Want More Information?
JSTOR: A History, by Roger C. Schonfeld
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton
University Press, c2003.
ISBN 0691115311
DBW Stack
PN4836.S36 2003
Thanks for Listening
If you wish me to come to a class to present this or other electronic resources sessions, please contact me at:
519 661-2111 ext 84763 or zimmerma AT uwo DOT ca