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Intro to Searching on JSTOR
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WHAT IS IT?
HOW DOES IT WORK?
HOW DO I FIND WHAT I NEED?
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• JSTOR is a non-profit online journal archive that provides access to scholarly journals from as far back as the 1600’s.
• Run by the University of Michigan.• Intended for in-depth research by a scholarly audience.• Mission:
To work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources.
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More than six thousand institutions from 144 countries
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More than six million articles indexed and available online
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SEARCHING JSTORJSTOR’s basic search function is set for a full-text search, so for more flexibility and accuracy you should search using the ‘Advanced Search’ tab:• Author• Title of article• Caption (citation information)• Abstract keyword search• Full-text keyword search
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Once you have a good search going, try limiting your search by specific fields:
• Type: article, review, editorial, pamphlet• Date of publication• Language (English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish)
• Discipline Area
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Disciplines Covered in JSTOR:
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• Save your search history
• Browse through collections
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• References, Citing Articles and articles by the same author are also indexed:
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BUT, if you want to give it a go…
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1.If interested in a particular discipline, search only within that discipline.
1.Search for keywords in full-text fields first, then limit your search if you find too many results.
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• JSTOR is fully linked to Google Scholar, so you may want to search from there.
Include JSTOR in your Google
Scholar search…...
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• Google Scholar search results will eventually bring you back to JSTOR.
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• For in-depth research in your discipline
• Articles never age out
• Indexing does not include subject headings or keywordso Search by either citation information or full-text