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Searching best practices on JSTOR

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As promised, we’re going to dive into some best practices for searching on JSTOR. This’ll be a long one!

The first thing to note is that JSTOR is not Google, so searches should not be conducted in the same way.

More on that in this video:

Basic Search on JSTOR

  • To search for exact phrases, enclose the words within quotation marks, like “to be or not to be”.
  • To construct a more effective search, utilize Boolean operators, such as “tea trade” AND china.

Advanced Searching on JSTOR

  • Utilize the drop-down menus to refine your search parameters, limiting them to the title, author, abstract, or caption text.
  • Combine search terms using Boolean operators like AND/OR/NOT and NEAR 5/10/25. The NEAR operator finds keyword combinations within 5, 10, or 25 words of each other. It applies only when searching for single keyword combinations, such as “cat NEAR 5 dog,” but not for phrases like “domesticated cat” NEAR 5 dog.
  • Utilize the “Narrow by” options to search for articles exclusively, include/exclude book reviews, narrow your search to a specific time frame or language.
  • To focus your article search on specific disciplines and titles, select the appropriate checkboxes. Please note that discipline searching is currently limited to journal content, excluding ebooks from the search.

Finding Content You Have Access To

To discover downloadable articles, chapters, and pamphlets for reading, you have the option to narrow down your search to accessible content. Simply navigate to the Advanced Search page and locate the “Select an access type” feature, which offers the following choices:

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All Content will show you all of the relevant search results on JSTOR, regardless of whether or not you can access it.

Content I can access will show you content you can download or read online. This will include Early Journal Content and journals/books publishers have made freely available.

Once you’ve refined your search, simply select an option that aligns with your needs and discover the most relevant items. Additionally, you have the option to further narrow down your search results after conducting an initial search. Look for this option located below the “access type” checkbox, situated at the bottom left-hand side of the page.

Additional resources

For more search recommendations, feel free to explore this page on JSTOR searching. There, you will find information on truncation, wildcards, and proximity, using fields, and metadata hyperlinks.

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I don’t know how often this is manned my friend, but you made college worth it. You made LEARNING worth it. I JUST learned I can have a jstor account outside of the academic world and I am crying. I’m so excited. I literally would spend all my printing credits each term just printing articles I desperately wanted to read but didn’t fit in my curriculum. Do you know how much your site improved my quality of life and of learning? Thank you so much. There was never a question I had that you DIDNT have an article on, no matter how obscure. I’m so excited to get back to the archive, thank you so much. 💕

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