Access
Browsing
Searching
Saving (or Removing) Citations
Viewing Articles
Printing Articles
Help
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The JSTOR database is unique because it offers complete archives of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. New titles and issues are being added regularly. However, JSTOR does not contain the latest 3-5years for most titles. Use the Library’s catalogue to check all holdings of a particular journal.
Access
From the Library’s home page at http://www.utas.edu.au/library/
- Select Databases from the menu on the right
- Select J from the alphabetical list of databases
- Click on JSTOR Arts and Sciences I, II & III from the list of databases
- Select one of the two methods of accessing the contents: Browsing or Searching.
Browsing
Choose Browse from the home page to go to lists of all the journals in JSTOR.
- You may go directly to an article if you have a citation,
- or you may start to look through journals in the JSTOR collection issue by issue and page by page.
- Titles are listed in subject clusters - Ecology, Economics, History, and so on.
- Selecting a title will take you to a range of volumes available in JSTOR for that title.
- From there select a particular volume, an issue within that volume, and then an article.
- Click on the Browse link to return to the complete list of titles.
Note - The JSTOR Logo takes you back to the Home page.
Searching
The Search option will take you to a Basic Search page.
However we recommend you use the Advanced Search page.
- Enter your search termsin the appropriate boxe(s)
- You may limit your searches by field,document type,date, specific journal title or subject area.
- Click on the Search button
This will open a Results list of citations containing your term(s) either anywhere in the article (default) or in a the field (if limited)
Saving (or Removing) Citations
- The Save Citation link saves the citation for this article to your Saved Citations List.
- If already saved, you will see the alternative Remove Citation link.
- View Saved Citations will take you to your Saved Citations List.
- These citatins may be saved, printed or emailed
- Choose Search Results to go back to the list of articles.
Viewing Articles
- Click on the title link to view the full-text of the article.
- There are three ways to navigate through the pages of an article:
- You may go directly to the page where your search term(s) appear by selecting one of the page links below "Your search term(s) appear on the following pages:." This option only appears if you entered a full-text search. If you entered terms in the title or author field, these links will not appear.
- You may use the Next Page and Previous Page links to move from page to page in the article.
- You may select "Jump to another page of this article" if you know which page you would like to see. You will be presented with links to all of the pages in the article.
Note. Table of Contents will take you to the Table of Contents of the issue in which the article appears.
Printing Articles
Print link reformats the article for easy printing. If your preferences are not set, you will be presented with a page of several printing options.
You may choose between High Quality and Economy setting for Adobe Acrobat (default).
- High Quality - the image that prints out is crisp and clear but the file is quite large. This means that it will take a long time to print or download the article.
- Economy - the image that prints out is fax quality and not as sharp as High Quality. The file size, however, is much smaller and will be quicker to print.
Help
More Help is available form the Tips link at the top of any JSTOR page.
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