David C. Fowler

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Using JSTOR for Academic Research
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• David C. Fowler
• University of Oregon Libraries
• 2008 FACULTY DIGITAL RESOURCES WORKSHOP,
• November 20, 2008
• PHILADELPHIA, PA
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What is JSTOR?

• Using funding from the Andrew W. Mellon
  Foundation, it was created in 1995 to build
  trusted digital archives for scholarship.
• It provides the complete full-text run of issues
  of its archived titles from volume 1, issue 1 in
  the humanities, literature and other social
  science fields.
• Depending on publisher agreements, there is a
  three- to five-year embargo on current content.
• A comprehensive and reliable archive for its
  materials.
• Uses high-resolution technologies to provide
  images of original pages at 600 dpi or 300 dpi
  grayscale (whichever is most accurate).

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What is JSTOR?

• Currently seventeen collections in areas such as
• Arts and Sciences (7)
• Life, Health, Biological Sciences and Botany (4)
• Business and Economics (2)
• Language and Literature
• Music
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Regional Collections (currently 1, for Ireland)
• Full text (when available) 1769 2007.

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What is JSTOR?

• 5,036 participating institutions, representing
  126 countries and including 2,375 in the United
  States.
• 467 different participating publishers.
• 773 journals in 47 disciplines and 14
  collections.
• 3,953,735 articles (including reviews)
  24,699,855 digitized pages.
• JSTOR was accessed 340,875,291 times in 2008
  (through August 31), and 194,945,475 pages were
  viewed.

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Related and Complimentary Resources

• a brief detour to look at related resources.

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Related and Complimentary Resources

• ARTstor is a digital library of over one million
  images in the areas of art, architecture, the
  humanities and social sciences, supported by
  Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, like JSTOR is.
• Images of all types are contributed by museums,
  archives, libraries, scholars and individual
  photographers.
• Images are presented at 72 dpi.

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• Example of an ARTstor image
• To Horse, Proletarian a
• lithograph by Alexander Apsit,
• 1919.

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• Archival photos St. Petersburg Fashion Plates
  by
• Karl Karlovich
• Bulla, 1908.

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• Architectural photos Photo
• of the Vyborg Municipal Library
• in Leningrad Oblast, by Alvar
• Aalto, 1927.

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• Oil paintings Icon, Christ
• Pantokrator, by an unknown
• artist, 19th century.

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Portico

• Began in 2002, as a joint venture of JSTOR,
  Ithaka Harbors, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  and the Library of Congress.
• Differs from JSTOR, in that it is a dark
  archive, designed to provide back-up access to
  subscribed, or formerly subscribed journals when
  the publisher or access provider goes out of
  business, or is experiencing long-term technical
  issues.
• When a trigger event occurs, dark-archived
  journals are opened to the appropriate libraries.

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Aluka

• Aluka is an internationally-built collection of
  scholarly resources about Africa, created in 2003
  in cooperation with JSTOR and the Andrew W.
  Mellon Foundation.
• Three focus areas to date African Plants,
  African Cultural Heritage Sites and Struggles for
  Freedom in Southern Africa.
• Content will merge into JSTOR in 2009.

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JSTOR Project MUSE

• Project MUSE
• MUSE is a venture of The Johns Hopkins University
  Press and its Milton S. Eisenhower Library, with
  funding from National Endowment for the
  Humanities and again, the Andrew W. Mellon
  Foundation.
• Complimentary, but not officially related to
  JSTOR.

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JSTOR Project MUSE

• Similarities
• Both MUSE and JSTOR emphasize journals in the
  humanities, social sciences, history and
  literature.
• MUSE content tends to be current volumes in these
  journals and often compliments JSTORs archival
  content.
• Example Hesperia
• JSTOR v 1, no. 1, 1932 v. 73, no. 4, 2004.
• Project MUSE v. 74, no. 1, 2005 present.
• (Next year, JSTOR will cover 1932-2005, and
• MUSE will cover 2006 present.)

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JSTOR

• Meanwhile, back at JSTOR..

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Slavic studies titles in JSTOR

• Four journal titles classed as being within
  JSTORs Slavic Studies category.
• Additionally, four predecessor titles for two of
  those journals.
• Content spans 1941 to 2006.
• Emphasis on Russian and East European history,
  literature and political science.
• Other non-Slavic studies titles contain relevant
  content as well.

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Slavic studies titles in JSTOR

• The Russian Review,
• v. 1 no. 1, 1941 to v. 61 no. 4,
• 2002.

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Slavic studies titles in JSTOR

• Soviet Studies, v. 1 no. 1, 1949
• to v. 44 no. 6, 1992.

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Slavic studies titles in JSTOR

• Continued as Europe-Asia
• Studies, v. 45 no. 1, 1993 to v.
• 56 no. 8, 2004.

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Slavic studies titles in JSTOR

• The Slavic and East European
• Journal, v. 1 no. 2, 1957 to v. 48
• No. 4, 2004.

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Slavic studies titles in JSTOR

• The Slavonic Year-Book.
• American Series, v. 1, 1941.
• Continued by Slavonic and East
• European Review. American
• Series, v. 2 no. 1, 1943 to v. 3 no.
• 4, 1944.

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Slavic studies titles in JSTOR

• Still continued by
• The American Slavic and East
• European Review, v. 4 nos. 1 2 to
• v. 20 no. 2, 1961.

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Slavic studies titles in JSTOR

• And finally by
• Slavic Review, v. 20 no. 3, 1961 to
• v. 65 no. 4, 2006.

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JSTOR. the basic search screen
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Russian language informational screens
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Browse by title and collection
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Russian Review, found by browsing
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a complete run of issues from 1941
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a 1963 table of contents (example)
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• Example of a scanned
• page

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Bibliographic info is available for each article
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Basic search in JSTOR
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Basic search results
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Found article using basic search
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Basic search limited by discipline
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Basic search limited by discipline - results
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Found article discipline-limited search
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Using JSTORs advanced search
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Using JSTORs advanced search - results
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Found article using JSTOR advanced search
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Using article locator in JSTOR
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Using article locator in JSTOR
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Using article locator in JSTOR
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Thank you.

• http//www.jstor.org JSTOR
• http//www.artstor.org ARTstor
• http//www.aluka.org Aluka
• http//www.portico.org Portico
• http//muse.jhu.edu Project Muse

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JSTOR Questions?

• David C. Fowler
• Associate Professor, University of Oregon
  Libraries
• Head of Acquisitions and recovering Electronic
  Resources Librarian
• dcfowler_at_uoregon.edu