What is JSTOR?

JSTOR provides online access to archived contents of important scholarly journals, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. Researchers are able to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of back issues of journals and pages as they were originally printed. Existing titles are updated and new titles are added on an ongoing basis.

Accessing JSTOR

1. Log in to NLB’s eResources page with myLibraryID. To find out more about setting up myLibrary ID, please refer to this link .

   

2. Click the “By A-Z” browsing option on the left, select “J”, followed by “JSTOR”

   

3. Enter your search term(s) into the search bar and hit “Enter” to search

   • Put quotation marks (“ ”) around phrases that are two words or more to retrieve results with the exact phrase you specified
   • Type “and” between your search terms for results containing both your search terms. You can include more variables by adding other search terms with the “and” operator

   

4. Filter through your search results using the column on the left according to your specificity

   • Select your preferred source type, ranging from academic journals, trade publications to newspaper articles
   • Specify the date range of your search results by entering the specific date formats into the “From” and “To” boxes. Click “Apply” once you are done

   

5. Select a search result of your choice

6. Besides reading the full article or publication in the browser, you can also download it in PDF format by clicking on the “Download PDF” button at the top right corner

   

7. Click the “Cite this item” button in the left column to launch a separate window containing the three citation formats you can use: APA, MLA and Chicago. Copy and paste the citation for your own references list