JSTOR

What is JSTOR?

JSTOR comprises the full-text of more than 300 academic journals covering a wide range of disciplines. These disciplines include: archaeology, classical studies, fine arts, economics, education, language, literature, mathematics and statistics, music, philosophy, politics, religion and sociology. JSTOR is all full-text and every article is immediately available.

Getting started

JSTOR is available from the University Library page. Use your Web browser to go to <http://www.une.edu.au/library>

Choose Most popular databases from the Databases drop-down menu.
Select JSTOR from the list.
Enter your UNE username and password when prompted.

Search strategies

Basic Search

The first page is the Basic Search screen. To perform a search, type a keyword or phrase in the Search box and click on the Search button. Phrases should be in quotation marks.

Varying your search

If you have too many results, you need to refine your search using additional keywords separated by the appropriate Boolean operators (AND, OR, AND NOT). Examples are:

reformation AND england -- narrows your search, finding articles which mention both England and the Reformation
khmer OR cambodian -- widens your search by including articles which refer to the inhabitants of Cambodia by either name
michelangelo AND NOT sistine chapel -- narrows your search, excluding articles which refer to the Sistine Chapel

Wildcards, Plurals and Fuzzy Searches

Search for different forms of a word using the ? wildcard. A search using organi?ation finds organisation and organization. Use multiple question marks to match more than one letter.
Search for the singular and plural form of a word by adding an ampersand (&) to the end of the singular: indian& will find indian and indians; knife& will find knife and knives
To find words with similar spellings, add ~ to the end of a keyword. This is useful when seaching for foreign names. For example, the query dostoyevsky~ finds dostoyevsky, as well as dostoevsky, dostoievski, dostoevsky etc.

Advanced Search

Advanced Search gives more control over your search results. You can restrict your search to articles which include (i) all keywords, (ii) an exact phrase and (iii) at least one of your keywords. You can also exclude articles with a particular keyword. The Advanced Search does not require you to type Boolean operators.
By clicking in the appropriate check-boxes, you can narrow your search to particular fields (Title, Author, Caption or Abstract) and restrict your search to specific items (Article, Review, Opinion Piece or Other items).

Date range

Limit your search to specific dates by entering dates in the From and Through.

Other ways to limit your search

To narrow your search by subject area or journal title, scroll down the page so that you can see the list of subject areas. Click in the check box next to the required subject area to restrict your search to journals in this field. Double-click on the plus sign before each check box to reveal a list of journals in that subject. To select an individual title, click in the check box next to the journal title. You can select more than one journal at a time.

Using your results

Your search results appear as a list of article titles. The default sort is Relevance. This is based on the number of times your keywords appear in the article. However, it is often more useful to sort by descending date order (latest articles first). Choose Most Recent to Oldest from the pull-down menu at the top of article list and click on the Sort button.

To view an article page by page, click on the article title. This displays the first page of the article. By clicking on Next Page and Previous Page links, you can move through an article one page at a time.
To view an article in Adobe Acrobat format, click on Download. Then click on PDF High Quality (Larger file size with high-quality resolution) or PDF Economy (quicker download but fax quality). The article will appear in an Acrobat Reader window. You can print the article by clicking on the Print icon at the top of the Reader window.

Links to different output options appear below the article titles on the results page. These are:

Citation: clicking on this link displays the citation details for the article.
Page of first match: this shows you the first page in the article which contains a matching keyword or phrase.
Print: clicking on this link displays the instructions for printing the article.
Download: clicking on the download link displays options for saving the article in different formats.
Save Citation: this allows you to save the article details for printing, saving to disk or emailing.

Printing articles

To print an article from the results list, click on the Print link and then click on Proceed to Printing. An Acrobat Reader window will appear and you can print the document by clicking on the Print icon within the Reader window.

Marking records

To make a list of article citations, click on Save Citation under the article title or click on Save All Citations on This Page. To view the list you have created, click on View Saved Citations.
From this page, you can export your citations as a text file, as an email or to a new page for printing. JSTOR also gives you a number of format options.

To print a set of citations from the Saved Citations page:

choose in a new window from the first pull-down menu
choose printer-friendly format from the second pull-down menu
click on the Export button
choose the Print command from your browser’s File menu.

To email the citations:

choose as an email from the first pull-down menu
choose printer-friendly format from the second pull-down menu
click on the Export button
Enter your email address and the recipient’s email address in the appropriate boxes and click the Send button

To save your citations for EndNote: