Getting the Most from the JSTOR Archive

Institute for the Economy in TransitionMoscow, Russia

Stephanie Krueger, Outreach & Education Specialist, stephkru@jstor.org

May 2004 www.jstor.org

Outline

• History and Background• Content Overview• Using JSTOR

– Searching– Working with Articles and Citations– Working with JSTOR links– Usage Statistics– Accessibility

About JSTOR

• Originally conceived by William G. Bowen, President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 1994

• Established as an independent not-for-profit organization in August 1995

• Initially a pilot project (University of Michigan) to provide electronic access to the backfiles of ten journals in two core fields, economics and history

About JSTOR

• Reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature

• Primary functions: preservation and access over time

• At present, 390 journals in eleven collections

• Over 14 million pages• Archival content only• Focus on the social sciences and

humanities

Business Collection: Overview

• 46 important business and management journals (20 of which are completely new to JSTOR)

• Approximately 1,700,000 pages• The Academy of Management Journal and The

Academy of Management Review (also: Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Operations Research and Strategic Management Journal)

• Title list at: http://www.jstor.org/about/bus.list.html

Business Collection: Content

JSTOR Content Utility

• JSTOR content:– Is useful as a template to emulate – Offers an opportunity for creative analysis

within and across disciplines– Provides a medium for sharing knowledge

with others in team approaches– Is useful for research papers & projects,

honors theses, pre-graduate and graduate study

Using JSTOR:Basic Search

Basic Search• Multiple search terms on the same line

are interpreted as a phrase• Not case-sensitive• Boolean operators available:

– and, or, near (10 words), near (25 words)• Segments available to search:

– full-text, author, abstract, title, caption(Note: Only about 10% of articles in JSTOR

have abstracts or captions)

Using JSTOR:Advanced Search

Advanced Search• Useful when working with

sophisticated queries, synonyms, transliterated words and for controlled proximity searching

• Command-line search entry• Boolean operators available:

– and, or, andnot

Using JSTOR:Advanced Search

Advanced Search• Enclose terms in quotes

“north american free trade agreement” or “NAFTA”

• Use + for plurals (English plurals only; no stemming, truncation or wildcards)

"genome+" and ("evolution" or "evolutionary")

• Ability to search on item by field(s)

"genome+"/title and ("evolution" or "evolutionary") and ("sequence"+/abstract)

Using JSTOR:Advanced Search

Advanced Search• Proximity operators: with a sentence,

within a number of words, or within the same page:

•sentence("united nations","resolution+","general assembly+")

•words(3,“William”,”DuBois”) or words(3,”W”,DuBois”)

•page("imprisonment+","robben island")

Using JSTOR:Save Citations Feature

• Useful for exporting citations into management software (e.g., EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, RefWorks)– Filter under “TIPS” (can be customized or users

can create their own)– Tab Delimited option also available (export into

Excel instead of management software)• 200 citations can be saved• Saved citations are deleted when user:

– Removes them from the list– Closes browser – Exits JSTOR

Exporting Citations: JSTOR Citation List

Options:

•Save All Citations on this page

•View Saved Citations

(also indicates how many citations have previously been saved)

Exporting Citations: JSTOR Citation List

Export citations:•As text, email or in a new window

•In citation-manager, printer-friendly, or tab-delimited formats

Terms and Conditions of Use

• Users may print and/or download one copy of an article for personal use – users may not download or print entire issues and volumes

• JSTOR articles may be used for ILL (print copies delivered by mail or fax) – T&C does not currently permit electronic ILL (e.g., Ariel)

• Citations may be sent via email to non-affiliated users

• Please refer to the JSTOR license agreement and the Terms & Conditions of Use (http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html) for more information.

Using JSTOR:Printing and

Downloading

Printing• Use JSTOR’s “PRINT” button• If experiencing slow printing, you may wish

to investigate using JPRINT

Downloading• Three options: TIFF (accessibility option),

PDF (recommended for most users), PostScript (some UNIX users)

• Terms & Conditions of Use: http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html

Using JSTOR Links

• Links can be created to a particular:– Journal– Table of Contents– Article

• Useful in subject guides and web pages– Cut and paste links into web documents or

course management software– Note: Users may need to authenticate if off-

campus to access links

Links in Web Pages

Steps:

1. Cut link out of JSTOR.

2. Paste into web editing software or course management software.

3. If an HTML page, place on a web server.

Linking & JSTOR:Article-level Linking

Partners• Article-level linking from other resources to JSTOR:

– ABC-CLIO: Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life– Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)– EBSCOhost – Endeavor (LinkFinderPlus)– ExLibris (SFX)– Family Scholar Publishing (Family Index Database)– Gale (MLA International Bibliography) – H.W. Wilson (WilsonWeb) – Ingenta– Innovative Interfaces (III) (WebBridge) – MathSciNet– National Information Services Corportation (NISC) (BiblioLine)– OCLC FirstSearch– Openly Informatics (1-Cate)– ProQuest Information and Learning (PCI)– Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) – Serials Solutions (ArticleLinker)

Linking & JSTOR:Partner Linking Example

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)

Questions?

Thank you very much for your support of the JSTOR archive!

stephkru@jstor.org