JSTOR

What is JSTOR?

JSTOR is a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive of scholarship, which preserves over one thousand academic journals in both digital and print formats, and continues to expand access to scholarly works and other materials needed for research and teaching globally. You will need an Athens password. External members and mentors are not entitled to an Athens password.

How do I log in?

Start either Google Chrome or Firefox. Don't use internet explorer as it has a fault which makes displaying full text articles very difficult. Go to the JSTOR home page by clicking the Databases item in the Search for menu, then click JSTOR. Type your Athens user ID and password and click Enter. Click Search on the brown toolbar and then select your preferred search mode - either Basic or Advanced.

How do I search?

Enter your search term or terms into the search box.
Decide if you want to include links to recent items, (links to items outside of JSTOR), in your search results and check or uncheck the box
You can limit by discipline or leave the default "All Disciplines" selected.
Start your search by clicking the red arrow icon
JSTOR automatically searches the author, the item title, and the full-text of all types of content.
If you have already run searches during your session, you can select a recent search.
To refine your search, try the Advanced Search interface or use some of the search options listed below

To search for:

an exact phrase	Use quotation marks(" "). For example, "punctuated equilibrium"
a title	Use ti:. For example, ti:"two-person cooperative games"
an author	Use au:. For example, au:"john nash"
combine terms	Use AND, OR, NOT. For example, ti:"two person cooperative games" AND au:"john nash"
wild card searches	Use a question mark (?) for one character or an asterisk () for multiple characters. For example, te?ts will find the words tents, tests, and texts. A search on bird will find bird, birding, birdman, and birds.
stem searching	Use a number sign (#) after the word. For example, goose# will find the words goose, geese, and gosling.

Combining search terms

AND	When you combine search terms with AND in a full-text search, your results contain everything in which both terms appear. Combining search terms makes your search results more precise. You can explicitly denote AND in the following ways: cat AND dog, cat && dog, cat & dog, +cat +dog, (cat dog)
OR	Using OR between search terms allows to you find all items that contain either term. Using OR will search for items that contain either the word "cat", the word "dog", or both. For example: cat OR dog, cat \|\| dog
NOT	Searches using NOT will only find items that do not contain the search term following it. To find all items with the word cat that do not contain the word dog, search for: cat NOT dog, cat -dog (Be sure to include a space before the dash, but not after)

How do I do an advanced search?

Check the boxes on the search form for item type, for example check Article to restrict the search to journal articles.
To search only JSTOR content, uncheck the box for "Search for links to items outside of JSTOR".
To search by discipline, use the checkboxes next to the Discipline and/or Journal name, or enter a journal title in the box.
To find a term in the author, title, abstract, or caption field, select the field you want to search from the drop down list to the right of the box. Tip: Only 10% of articles in JSTOR have an abstract.
To find an item published within a certain date range, enter the range of dates as yyyy, yyyy/mm, or yyyy/mm/dd.

Using the citation locator

Fill in the fields you know - be sure to check your spelling
Leave unknown fields empty - you can search with blank fields
Select the "Search" button

Tip: AND, OR, NOT, and field abbreviations do not work in the Citation Locator search form. For general searches, use the Basic Search form or Advanced Search form.

How do I export to RefWorks?

The search results are displayed sorted by the most recent first. To display the full text, click PDF. You can print or save the PDF file using the buttons on the Acrobat toolbar.

Click the Export this citation link under the article details. Click the RefWorks link. Log in to RefWorks by clicking the Athens users link in the pop up window, and your records will automatically be imported.

How do I finish off?

Click on the logout link at the top left of the screen.

Help is available during your search by clicking on the Help button at the top of the screen. If you have any questions which cannot be answered by this guide please contact your librarian.