Peer Research Consultants: JSTOR

Niche Academy: JSTOR 

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, images, and primary sources. It covers more than 60 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences and mathematics. It includes thousands of top academic journals from 1665 to 2015 (for certain titles); millions of primary sources, thousands of open access eBooks and high quality art images and media. 

To locate JSTOR:

• From the Main Library Webpage - click Research - click Databases & Articles
• Scroll the list to find JSTOR.  
• Here is a direct link to JSTOR.

Searching JSTOR:

• Basic Search
  • Place words within quotation marks to search for exact phrases (“to be or not to be”).
  • Use Boolean operators to construct a better search (“tea trade” AND china).
• Advanced Search

  • Use the drop-down boxes to limit search terms to the title, author, abstract, or caption text.

  • Use the drop-down boxes to combine search terms using the Boolean operators, AND/OR/NOT and NEAR 5/10/25. The NEAR operator looks for the combinations of keywords within 5, 10, or 25 words places of each other. The NEAR operator only works when searching for single keyword combinations. For example, you may search for cat NEAR 5 dog, but not "domesticated cat" NEAR 5 dog.

  • Use the “Narrow by” options to search only articles, include/exclude book reviews, search for content published during a particular time frame, or in a particular language.

  • Focus an article search in specific disciplines and titles using checkboxes. [NOTE: discipline searching is currently only available for searching journal content. Selecting this option will exclude ebooks from the search.

Useful Tips for Searching JSTOR: https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/sections/360009593274-Searching-on-JSTOR