• New Features
  • MyJSTOR
  • Searching JSTOR
  • Article Page Viewing
  • Simplified Printing and Viewing of Article PDF Files
  • Links into JSTOR

MyJSTOR

"MyJSTOR" is the first step in providing greater personal customization for users throughout the site. With this first release, users can:

• manage citations over time by saving them to a MyJSTOR account, where they can be stored indefinitely. Users will need to create an account in order to save or send citations, as well as to save them to bibliographic software.
• accept JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use once, rather than being prompted to respond with each article print or download

See also: Tutorials, MyJSTOR Help

Searching JSTOR

The following enhancements have been made to JSTOR searching:

Basic Search

• Basic searches, which search the full-text of all journals, can be entered directly from the home page by authorized users.
• Basic searches can be limited by discipline.

Advanced Search

• Searches can be limited by selecting discipline(s) or specific journal titles, or by directly entering a specific title into the form.
• Proximity search is now available in the Advanced Search form, using NEAR 5, NEAR 10, NEAR 25 operators in the Boolean pull-down menus.

Basic and Advanced Searches

• Searches from an individual session are saved, and they can be rerun from a dropdown menu at the bottom of each of these search forms.
• Users are able to search for both the singular and plural versions of a word by adding an ampersand (&) to the end of the singular form of the word. Plurals now identify both regular (cat/cats) and irregular (knife/knives) plural forms.
• Users have the option to apply stemming to their search by appending the "#" character at the end of their search term, e.g., "operate#".
• The "Images in JSTOR" and "Images in ARTstor" tabs appear in the results from all search forms.

Search Results

The "search within these results" feature allows users to run a new search that restricts the content being searched to the results of their most recent search.

See: Searching Help

Article Page Viewing

• Thumbnail images of articles make it easier to see articles at a glance and to select pages within articles.

Simplified Printing and Viewing of Article PDF Files

• JSTOR now offers articles in a single, improved format of PDF for printing.
• The PDF versions of articles provide bookmarks for easier navigation, both throughout the article as well as the entire issue.

NOTE: JPRINT, the printing application created specifically for printing JSTOR files, is no longer available or supported.

See: Printing Help

Links into JSTOR

The following URLs have not changed with the release of the new platform:

Top-Level Pages

The following URLs have not changed with the release of the new platform.

• JSTOR Home Page: http://www.jstor.org/
• JSTOR Basic Search: http://www.jstor.org/search or http://www.jstor.org/search/BasicSearch
• JSTOR Advanced Search: http://www.jstor.org/search/AdvancedSearch
• JSTOR Article Locator: http://www.jstor.org/search/ArticleLocatorSearch
• Browse by Discipline: http://www.jstor.org/browse

Journal Information Pages

The current Journal Information Pages will redirect automatically to our new Publication Information Pages, which include a journal description, holdings information, cataloging information, and a list of browsable volumes, arranged in 10-year segments.

The current URLs include the extension {ISSN}.html and follow this format:

http://www.jstor.org/journals/00027189.html

Stable Article-Level URLs

URLs that are designated as stable in the current system will continue to work. The current stable URLs look like the example below and can be found on the Article Information Pages and Issue Table of Contents pages.

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0885-2758%28193701%2F03%295%3A1%3C3%3ASTBIST%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V

Other Links

It is possible that links not listed above will not work once the transition to the new platform is complete. We will be happy to work with you to provide alternative solutions and resolutions to any linking issues that may arise.

ProQuest Research

Search the full collection of journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general reference subjects.

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Search Tips
Use "quotation marks" to search for exact phrases.
2 word queries (such as circus elephant) are searched as an exact phrase by default.
3 word queries (such as new york orchestra) are searched as words that need to appear in proximity to each other by default.

Use special characters and operators (below) to focus your query.
Learn About
Truncation and Wildcard Characters ?, *
Operators AND, OR, NOT …
Search Field Syntax AU(...) for author
Stop Words the, an, of …

Example Searches
Truncation and Wildcard Characters
The symbol * is used as a right-handed truncation character only; it will find all forms of a word.
For example, searching for econom* will find "economy", "economics", economical", etc.
The symbol ? is used to replace any single character, either inside the word or the right end of the word.
? cannot be used to begin a word.
For example, searching for "wom?n" will find "woman" and "women." Searching for "t?re" will find "tire", "tyre", "tore", etc.

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Operators
Boolean, proximity and adjacency operators are used to broaden and narrow your search.

AND Find all the words. When searching for keywords in "Citation and Document Text," AND finds documents in which the words occur in the same paragraph (within approx. 1000 characters) or the words appear in any citation field. Use W/DOC in place of AND when searching for keywords within "Citation and Document Text" or "Document Text" to retrieve more comprehensive results.
Example: internet AND education
AND NOT Find documents which have the first word, but not the second word.
Example: Internet AND NOT html
OR Find any of the words.
Example: Internet OR intranet
W/# Find documents where these words are within some number of words apart (either before or after). Use when searching for keywords within "Citation and Document Text" or "Document Text."
Example: computer W/3 careers
W/PARA Finds documents where these words are within the same paragraph (within approx. 1000 characters). Use when searching for keywords within "Document Text."
Example: internet W/PARA education
W/DOC Find documents where all the words appear within the document text. Use W/DOC in place of AND when searching for keywords within "Citation and Document Text" or "Document Text" to retrieve more comprehensive results.
Example: Internet W/DOC education
NOT W/# Find documents where these words appear but are not within some number of words apart (either before or after). Use when searching for keywords within "Citation and Document Text" or "Document Text."
Example: computer NOT W/2 careers
PRE/# Find documents where the first word appears some number of words before the second word. Use when searching for keywords within "Citation and Document Text" or "Document Text."
Example: world pre/3 web

Search for a Topic with Suggest Topics

Follow these steps to locate a term with the Topic Guide using Suggest Topics:

1. Enter a term and select Suggest Topics, then click Find Term.
2. ProQuest will suggest topics similar to the term you have entered.
   For example, if you enter Math, ProQuest will suggest Mathematics education and Mathematics education AND Teaching. Scroll through the list to locate the term you want.
3. Once you have found a term, click View documents to run a search using that term. Or click Narrow to narrow your search using related terms.
4. Once you have narrowed the search, you will see additional filtering options. You can:

• Scroll through the list to locate the term you want.
• Select a filtering tab (People, Locations, Companies, Subjects, Dates, Publications).
• Navigate to a different page using the Next and Previous links.
• Change the order the topics are sorted (Number of Results, Alphabetical Order).
• Jump to a specific letter or term alphabetically by entering a letter or term in the Jump to box and clicking Go.

1. Once you have found a term, click View documents to run a search using that term. Or click Narrow to narrow your search using related terms.

• • Create a web page with links to your articles, searches, and publications.