JSTOR Tutorial

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Guide to Searching JSTOR

Directions for                     Basic Search  |  Advanced Search/Limit Searches   |  Printing

 

Basic Search

1.  Click on JSTOR (Electronic Journals) to open JSTOR.

2.  When JSTOR opens, click on “SEARCH”

3.  You are put into the “easy search” page.  Review the QUICK TIPS:
below the search box

4.  Search Hints:

• Phrase Searching
  To search for an exact phrase, use double quote marks around the phrase:
  "women’s suffrage"
  "world war I"
• Wildcards
  Using a question mark (?) allows you to replace up to one letter. If you search wom?n you will find woman and women.
• Multiple Characters
  Use an asterisk (*) to match more than one letter. A search on bird* will find bird, birding, birdman, birds, and other words that start with bird.
• Proximity Operators
  JSTOR allows you to find terms that are within a specific number of words from each other using the tilde (~) as a proximity operator. To search runaway and slaves within ten words of each other, you would construct the following query:
  “runaway slave*”~10  

5. You will get a list of "hits" (articles that match your search query. For example:

Fugitive Slaves and Free Society: The Case of Brazil Thomas Flory The Journal of Negro History > Vol. 64, No. 2 (Spring, 1979), pp. 116-130 Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2992%28197921%2964%3A2%3C116%3AFSAFST%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E Article Information | Page of First Match | Print | Download | Save Citation

6.  Going from the list of search hits to the article.  Choices

                                                                                          
                  Article Information | Page of First Match | Print | Download | Save Citation

Article Information = Information to use in citing this article
Page of First Match = Links to first page where search terms appear
Print = Link to printing choices (see printing directions below)
Download= Save article
Save citation= You can save several citations and email all citations at once, will not email articles.
To view complete article= click on article title.

7.  Hint: If you want to email an article, save it on the computer and then send the article as an attachment. You cannot email an article from within JSTOR.

 

Limit your search- ADVANCED SEARCH

1.  Use the Advanced Search option (look above list of citations or go back to first search screen and select “Advanced Search”)

2.  Type your search terms into the search box. Use options below found below the search box

• To avoid retrieving book reviews, use the check box "ARTICLE."
• Dates are for date of publication, not historical date of article content .
• Type in journal title if you wish to retrieve articles only from that journal .

                            

3.  Click the Search button.

 

Printing from JSTOR

 

1.  To print an article either from the citation list screen or from within an article, click on PRINT.  A new screen will open.  You will first need to select a printing application. JPRINT will be the fastest and is available on all library computers. You only need to make the selection the first time you print.  JPRINT Economy is the fastest.

Set Printing Preference

Please choose one of the following:

On-campus location or via a fast network connection:
PDF: High Quality (default) - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

JPRINT: High Quality - requires the JPRINT helper application

Dialup connection:
PDF: Economy - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

JPRINT: Economy - requires the JPRINT helper application

2.  If you are in the library, the Default might be PDF High Quality. You will want to fist go to “Set Preferences” at the top of the screen and change the print preference to JPRINT.

3.  If you are using a dialup connection, go to the Economy Option.  Your printing choices are:

PDF: High Quality (default) - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

• Adobe may load this article slowly.
• Choose printing option,
• Click “Setting Printer Preference,” 
• Click “Return to JSTOR session,
• Click PRINT (top of screen), print all or selected pages.
• To print use Print icon  from within Adobe

JPRINT: High Quality - requires the JPRINT helper application

• JPRINT application is available on all library computers; you must download and install on your own computer.
• Fast printing.
• Choose printing option,
• Click “Setting Printer Preference” 
• Click “Return to JSTOR session
• Click PRINT (top of screen)
• Print all or selected pages.

Dialup connection: PDF: Economy - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

• Adobe may load this article slowly.
• Choose printing option,
• Click “Setting Printer Preference,” 
• Click “Return to JSTOR session,
• Click PRINT (top of screen), print all or selected pages.
• To print use Print icon  from within Adobe

JPRINT: Economy - requires the JPRINT helper application

• JPRINT application is available on all library computers; you must download and install on your own computer.
• Fast printing, faster than JPRINT High Quality.
• Choose printing option,
• Click “Setting Printer Preference” 
• Click “Return to JSTOR session
• Click PRINT (top of screen)
• Print all or selected pages.

Created by Ruth Dickstein March 2006; Revised Sept. 2006