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

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