JSTOR Overview

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• JSTOR Overview
• April 2005

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Outline

• History and Mission
• Using JSTOR
• Searching
• Linking and JSTOR
• Working with Articles and Citations
• Printing JSTOR Articles
• Terms Conditions of Use
• User Support Contact Information

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History

• Originally conceived by William G. Bowen,
  President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in
  1994
• Established as an independent not-for-profit
  organization in August 1995
• Initially a pilot project (University of
  Michigan) to provide electronic access to the
  backfiles of ten journals in two core fields,
  economics and history

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JSTOR Today

• Reliable and comprehensive archive of important
  scholarly journal literature
• Primary functions preservation and access over
  time
• At present, over 475 journals in twelve
  collections
• Over 17 million pages
• Archival content only
• Main focus on the social sciences and humanities

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Participation

• 2,400 library participants in 87 countries
• US 1,300
• Outside US 1,000
• 300 publisher participants
• 15 publisher countries
• Scholarly societies, small/university sponsored
  publications, university presses, commercial
  publishers

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Basic Search

• Allows users to search all JSTOR content by
  default
• Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT available
• Search terms concatenated with AND unless
  otherwise specified.
• Phrase searching is available by enclosing terms
  in quotes (e.g., punctuated equilibrium)
• Field searching may be accomplished by using
  field operators (e.g., tiothello, aunash)
• Wildcard characters available

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Advanced and Expert Searches

• Advanced search guides the user in constructing
  queries without knowledge of Boolean operators.
• Expert search gives users the power to use
  command-line query entry in combination with the
  same limiters available in the advanced and basic
  search.

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Search Interface Features

• Easily expandable discipline lists can expand
  one at a time
• Clearer indication of number of results
• Search box available from top of every search
  results page
• Ability to select an author name to see all
  articles by that author
• Search results sorting options

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Using JSTOR Stable Links

• Links can be created to a particular
• Journal
• Issue
• Article
• Links are stable and persistent
• May cut and paste links into web documents or
  course management software, subject guides,
  course web pages, electronic reserves

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Saving and Exporting Citations

• Useful for exporting citations into management
  software (e.g., EndNote, ProCite, Reference
  Manager, RefWorks)
• Filter under TIPS (can be customized or users
  can create their own)
• Tab Delimited option also available (export into
  Excel instead of management software)
• 200 citations can be saved per session
• Saved citations are deleted when user
• Removes them from the list
• Closes browser
• Exits JSTOR

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Printing and Downloading

• Printing
• Use JSTORs PRINT button
• If experiencing slow printing, you may wish to
  investigate using JPRINT
• Downloading
• Three options TIFF (accessibility option), PDF
  (recommended for most users), PostScript (some
  UNIX users)
• Terms Conditions of Use http//www.jstor.org/ab
  out/terms.html

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Linking JSTOR Open URL example
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Future Plans

• Content
• Double size over next 5 years
• Possibility of special collections new format
  types
• Technology
• Migration (to XML/Oracle)
• E-archive
• Authentication (Shibboleth?)
• Organization
• Work with other Ithaka entities (ARTstor, etc.)

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Terms Conditions of Use

• Users may print and/or download one copy of an
  article for personal use users may not download
  or print entire issues and volumes
• JSTOR articles may be used for ILL (print copies
  delivered by mail or fax) TC does not
  currently permit electronic ILL (e.g., Ariel)
• Please refer to the JSTOR license agreement and
  the Terms Conditions of Use (http//www.jstor.or
  g/about/terms.html) for more information.

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New Related Initiative ARTstor
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• For assistance with using JSTOR, please contact
• JSTOR User Services at
• support_at_jstor.org.