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Introducing JSTOR

The Scholarly Journal Archive

JSTOR's mission is to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technologies. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve highresolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.

Originally conceived by William G. Bowen, President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR began as an effort to ease the increasing problems faced by libraries seeking to provide adequate stack space for the long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. The basic idea was to convert the back issues of paper journals into electronic formats that would allow savings in space (and in capital costs associated with that space) while simultaneously improving access to the journal content.

JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections. These options are designed to provide flexibility for libraries and institutions to choose the sets of journals and collection growth paths that are most appropriate for their needs. As an authorized user of a participating JSTOR institution, you have access to the JSTOR collection of journals in which your institution participates. ITC Library has access to:

• Health and General Sciences Collection
• Arts & Sciences I Collection
• Arts & Sciences II Collection
• Arts & Sciences IV Collection

You could select one of the links to view the list of journals included in that collection.

Staff and students are able to read and print articles at any time and from any networked location in the ITC building.

Why doesn't JSTOR include current journal issues?

JSTOR's agreements with publishers include an updating provision referred to as a "moving wall." The purpose of the moving wall is to ensure that participants can rely on JSTOR to be the trusted archive for the journal archives, while also giving publishers protection from the threat of lost revenues if recent issues were available in the database. It is not JSTOR's intention to motivate subscribers, whether they be libraries or individuals, to cancel their subscriptions because recent issues are available in JSTOR. The moving wall is a fixed period of time, in most cases ranging from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR. Several publishers do provide links to the recent content on their own websites, and you can search the article citations using the JSTOR search engine. If your institution provides access to these other sources, you can go directly to these articles through links in JSTOR.

How do I use JSTOR?

• Searching: Enter search terms in the basic search interface to search all content in all disciplines. Use the advanced search interface to narrow your search to specific publication dates, journals, authors, or many other search options.
• Browsing: Find journal issues and articles by clicking on "Browse," and then the name, volume and issue of the journal that interests you.
• Article Locator: Select the "Article Locator" to enter citation information about a specific article you are looking for.
• Printing: The default option for printing is PDF high quality, which requires that Adobe Acrobat be installed on your computer. You can select a different option by choosing "Print Preferences". Choices include PDF economy, JPRINT (our special helper application), and TIFF (for accessibility). All of these options are superior to using your internet browser's print button.
• Linking: All articles have a stable URL. Simply copy and paste the URL into course websites, email them to authorized users, or use them as needed.

JSTOR instruction videos

How to browse JSTOR Instruction video on YouTube

How to search JSTOR Instruction video on YouTube

Why isn't it possible to cut and paste text from articles in JSTOR?

As journals are scanned, both an image file and an ASCII (text) file are created. What you see is a scanned image, which is a replica of the original journal page. The ASCII file is not displayed, but is used only to facilitate full-text searching. In converting millions of pages of information, it is not feasible to bring the quality level of the ASCII text up to a standard acceptable for display.

What are the Terms and Conditions of Use?

By using the JSTOR database you agree to abide by the JSTOR Terms and Conditions, which grant a limited license to make use of articles and other materials in the archive. Unless prior written permission has been obtained from JSTOR and the publisher of content in the archive, you may not download from the JSTOR archive an entire issue of a journal, significant portions of the entire run of a journal, a significant number of sequential articles, or multiple copies of articles. In general, users are expected to respect "fair use" laws and restrictions. For more information on the Terms and Conditions of Use, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp.

Helpful Links

Information about JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/organization/missionHistory.jsp
Journals Currently Available - http://www.jstor.org/action/showJournals?browseType=titleInfoPage
JSTOR Tutuorials - http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/tutorials.jsp
JSTORNEWS - http://news.jstor.org/

Conditions of use of the electronic journals and databases

The use of electronic journals and databases is subject to the following agreements between ITC and publishers:

1. The use is limited to staff and students of the ITC and visitors to the ITC Library.
2. Only personal use for study, research and education is allowed; commercial use is strictly prohibited.
3. Downloading is restricted to reasonable amounts for your personal use.
4. Downloaded materials cannot be distributed to third parties.

Once you are logged on, you are personally responsible for all on-line activities in that session, including library access.

If you have any questions about the license agreement, or if you need services that appear to fall outside the agreement, please contact the librarian, Marga Koelen, ext. 202.