Why can't I find JSTOR on the Library's Website
How can I find an article in JSTOR
How do I print an article from JSTOR
JSTOR, short for Journal STORage is an online collection of back runs of journals. JSTOR does not include the current issues of journals (except for 25 exceptions); so most material in the database is at least 3 years old. Many commercial publishers make their content available online for profit, however they rarely provide access to material that is more than 5 years old. JSTOR fills this gap by providing access to volumes of journals that are not available from the publisher.
JSTOR provides two major features for academics:
JSTOR is a very small collection of major journals for various academic disciplines. The University of Toronto Libraries links to the individual titles found in JSTOR through the e-journals section of the website. Other indexes, such as Sociological Abstracts and Social Sciences Abstracts provide more in depth and more up to date coverage of the journal literature and provide more powerful search features than JSTOR can offer. To access JSTOR go to http://www.jstor.org
JSTOR provides a limited search engine for it's content, however, because of JSTOR's limited coverage both in terms of chronology and in terms of breadth, it is a good idea to FIRST search using a more robust and comprehensive index such as Sociological Abstracts. For example, JSTOR includes 323 journals relevant to many disciplines including 29 Sociology Journals, Sociological Abstracts includes 1727 sources relevant to Sociology. All of the journals indexed in JSTOR are also indexed in Sociological Abstracts. ONCE YOU HAVE FOUND ARTICLES RELATED TO YOUR TOPIC IN AN ACADEMIC INDEX, GO TO J-STOR TO SEE IF IT IS AVAILABLE ON-LINE.
Begin searching JSTOR with a citation from an index:
This citation for Theodore Gerber's article Market, state or don't know? Education, economic ideology, and voting in contemporary Russia appears in a journal called Social Forces volume 79, issue 2.
Now go to http://www.jstor.org and click on the "browse" option. This will bring you to a screen that allows you to browse through the journal titles by discipline. You may find it more helpful to click on the "ALPHABETICAL LIST OF JOURNALS" link at the top of the screen. Find the link for Social Forces and click on it.
Select a date range from the list of volumes available for browsing and then select an issue from the issues available for browsing.
You will now see a list of all of the articles from that issue.
To view the article one page at a time, click on it's title. To print the article click on "print." to download a PDF copy of the article click on "download."
To search JSTOR begin by typing in keywords about your topic.
Once you have typed in your keywords, scroll down the screen to select a discipline to search. You can search multiple disciplines.
The next step is not necessary to perform a search in JSTOR, however you can limit your searches to certain kinds of materials or to material published during a certain time period. Remember that JSTOR generally does not include material from the last 3 years.
Once you have entered your search terms and set the appropriate options click on the "begin search" button.
The SEARCH RESULTS page lists articles that match your criteria in groups of 10. Each citation includes the title of the articles, the author, the name of the journal, the volume, issue, date of publication and page numbers. For example, item 1 in the picture above is for an article entitled Market, State or Don't Know? Education, Economic Ideology, and Voting in Contemporary Russia by Theodore P. Gerber that appeared in volume 79, issue 2 of Social Forces starting on page 477.
To begin reading an article click on it's title. This will load a screen that displays the article page by page. DO NOT PRINT FROM THIS SCREEN!
JSTOR displays articles in a page-by-page format. To print the whole article click on the 'print' link located below the citation. This will load a PDF file of the entire article. Once the PDF has loaded you will be able to print or save the whole document.
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This page was prepared by Jeff Newman. Comments and queries are welcome.
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