JSTOR
Overview
JSTOR is a digital library of journal, articles, books, images, primary resources which hepls for academic and research purposes.
JSTOR
https://www.jstor.org/
ARPITA SARKAR, Student of M.LIS, Jadavpur University
About JSTOR
JSTOR (for “Journal Storage”) collects scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles, especially in the Humanities and Social Sciences. JSTOR was conceived in 1994 by William G. Bowen. JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal, articles, books, images, and proimary resouces(pamplets, monographs, manuscripts etc.) in 75 disciplines. JSTOR is a part of ITHAKA, a nonprofit group that supports the academic sector in utilizing digital tools to maintain scholarly information and promote research education in environmentally responsible manners.
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Purpose
JSTOR's mission is to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technologies. Access to JSTOR is usually granted through entities like universities, libraries, and research institutions. Although certain content can be accessed freely, complete access to the majority of resources necessitates a subscription, which is commonly provided by academic institutions. Main motive is ‘explore the world’s knowledge, cultures and ideas'. JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million jjournal, articles, books, images, and proimary resouces in 75 disciplines which are very helpful for research and teaching platforms. Basic search, advance search, image, browse, workshops is here.
Search in JSTOR
There are two search forms on JSTOR.org, a Basic Search (on the main page at http://www.jstor.org/ and at the top of most pages) and an Advanced Search (www.jstor.org/action/showAdvancedSearch). Article, journal can be downloaded, saved, citation (MLA, APA, Chicago) also be here, and can be exported. For example:
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Basic Search in JSTOR
Searching by field
User can search by title, author, journal name, publication name, ISSN etc. with citation and field operators, search query by its abbreviation mentioned bellow.
Jo: journal name
ti: article title
au: article author
ca: article captions
ty:fla full length article
sn: ISSN
vo: journal volume field
ty:bry book reviews
For example:
Search by Everyday Life Information Seeking and shows 98752 results. It can be shorted by relevance, Newest, Oldest. The result will refined by content type(Academic content like journals, book chapters, research reports) Primary source content (serials, book, documents, images, etc.), by date, subjects, languages and by access type (Everything which are open or paid and Content I can Access which are free).
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Advance searching
JSTOR supports advance search techniques to improve the accuracy and relevancy of search.
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Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT):
Use Boolean operator for better search with access type. For example:
“tea trade” AND “coffee trade”
“Birds” OR “Butterfly”
“United States” NOT “United Kingdom”
Combining search terms
Dropbox of Boolean, here is combining search under the Boolean operator (AND/OR/NOT) NEAR 5/10/25. The NEAR operator looks for the combinations of keywords within 5, 10, or 25 words places of each other but it only works on single keyword combinations. For example: Dog Near 5 Cat.
Narrow result
Search by item type, language, publication date, journal Or book title.
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Phrase Search
For exact search, more than one term in a field search, use parentheses () to enclose search terms, or quotation marks (" ") to search for an exact phrase. For example:
“Everyday Life Information Seeking Behaviour” as it is “ ” the result become 42 only.
- Wildcard
It takes places search for one or more characteristics in search terms.
? mark is used for single character searching. * is used for multiple character searching. For example:
Search te?ts: results texts, tests, tents. Words are starts with te- and ends with -ts.
Search world*: result worlds, worldwide, world webs. Words stars with world-.
Image search
In JSTOR image can also searched short by: Relevance, Newest, oldest, title, creator in increase or decrease order, resolutions. Refined results by content type primary sources, image resolution, by dates, classification. Image search also provides advance searches like All Content.
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JSTOR provides browse books or journals by subject, title, publishers, collections, images.
Conclusion
JSTOR is useful for academic research by offering extensive access to an enormous online library filled with scholarly materials. It has greatly reduced the demands on physical library space, enabled worldwide access to important academic resources, and encouraged progress through different programs and technological improvements. JSTOR remains essential in safeguarding academic work and aiding the academic community, making certain that knowledge is available to everyone.