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  HEC - National Digital Library - JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible.
JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
JSTOR provides the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
www.digitallibrary.edu.pk /jstor.html   (216 words)

  
 JSTOR Guide
JSTOR is a full-text database (and archive) of over 500 journals in a variety of subjects.
Since 2002, JSTOR has used a new technology to display the high-quality images directly on the page of the article and these are printed as part of the PDF file.
JSTOR is now engaged in a retrospective project to update the previously digitized content to the new standard.
www.csulb.edu /library/instruction/handouts/jstor_guide.html   (1154 words)

  
 JSTOR: An IP Practitioner's Perspective
JSTOR's initial objective is to develop a trusted electronic archive of core scholarly journal literature, with an emphasis on the retrospective conversion of the entire backfiles of key journals.
JSTOR began with a test phase during which access was provided to first five then twenty university sites in the United States, and our software and user interface were refined.
JSTOR library license agreement is available to all on our website.) The overall goal of JSTOR is to serve the academic community by building a reliable and comprehensive archive of journal literature, thereby reducing storage costs for libraries, addressing preservation issues, and improving access to the literature.
www.dlib.org /dlib/january97/01sully.html   (2057 words)

  
 How do I use JSTOR?
JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a web-based archival/backfile service, providing full-text searching of core scholarly journals in the fields of Economics, Ecology, History, Mathematics, Sociology, Population Studies and Political Science.
JSTOR's initial goal is to provide electronic access to back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
The JSTOR archive offers complete backfiles of selected scholarly journals, which have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s.
www.csupomona.edu /~library/tutorials/jstor.html   (491 words)

  
 JSTOR: JSTOR Terms and Conditions of Use
JSTOR hereby grants you a limited, nonexclusive license to access and use the JSTOR Archive, and to use, display, distribute, and reproduce the Content, solely in accordance with these Terms and Conditions of Use (the "License").
JSTOR reserves the right (but not the obligation), at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any such matter, subject to indemnification by you if it is the result of your unauthorized use or breach of the Terms and Conditions of Use.
JSTOR will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in JSTOR or Content, in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof, or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing.
www.jstor.org /about/terms.html   (1593 words)

  
 About JSTOR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
JSTOR has obtained the right to provide the Content from the publishers of the journals contained in the database, and copyright therein is retained by the publishers.
JSTOR will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in the JSTOR database, in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof, or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing.
JSTOR further makes no warranties respecting any harm that may be caused by the transmission of a computer virus, worm, time bomb, logic bomb or other such computer program.
math.albany.edu:8800 /hm/emj/97/msg00132.html   (1461 words)

  
 JSTOR: From Project to Independent Organization
In the summer of 1995, JSTOR was established as an independent not-for-profit organization to carry forward the original objectives of the grant.
Addressing in detail how JSTOR set prices for access to the database is beyond the scope of this brief article, but decisions on the key parameters, such as whether to offer different prices for different classes of participants, were once again guided by a mission-oriented perspective.
JSTOR's commitment to share as much of what it learns with the community as possible requires that there be no special deals, that we be open about the contributions institutions make and the reasons for their making them.
www.dlib.org /dlib/july97/07guthrie.html   (2629 words)

  
 JSTOR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
JSTOR (founded 1995) is an online system for archiving academic journals.
JSTOR was conceived by William G. Bowen as a solution to one of the problems faced by libraries, especially research and university libraries, due to the increasing number of academic journals in existence.
The availability of many journals on JSTOR is controlled by a "Moving wall", a delay between the current volume of the journal and the current volume available on JSTOR.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/JSTOR   (470 words)

  
 Server Family Success Stories - JSTOR
The JSTOR database, located at both Princeton University and the University of Michigan, depends upon Sun servers and storage arrays products to handle its demanding capacity and performance requirements.
Ira Fuchs, JSTOR's Chief Scientist and Princeton's Vice President of Computing and Information Technology, explains the approach, "Using a variety of factors including the number of library subscriptions and surveys of scholars in several academic disciplines (e.g., anthropology, ecology, economics, mathematics, etc.), JSTOR staff determines which journals should be included in the JSTOR library collection.
JSTOR has already expanded overseas with the March 1998 establishment of a mirror site at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
www.sun.com /servers/success-stories/jstor.html   (1766 words)

  
 Schaffer Library Electronic Workshops: JSTOR
JSTOR, short for Journal Storage, was conceived as a solution to the problems of housing and preserving back issues of scholarly journal by converting them into full-text electronic formats that would be accessible online to JSTOR members.
Additionally, JSTOR's mission is to serve as an archive for scholarly resources, allowing libraries to fill gaps—in terms of both missing issues and full back runs of titles—in their collections.
JSTOR allows limiting by a range of years (January 1 through December 31), from a specific date through some other specific date, and open-ended date searching from some starting point.
www.union.edu /PUBLIC/LIBRARY/training/jstor.html   (1250 words)

  
 JSTOR Access
JSTOR provides a digital archive of the back issues of important scholarly journals, and makes them available, through participating institutions, via the world wide web.
JSTOR includes The Journal of Symbolic Logic, The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic and 591 other journals in 42 disciplines, including 23 journals in philosophy and 19 in mathematics.
All but the most recent volumes of JSTOR journals are made available online with an exact image of each journal page and a searchable version of the text.
www.aslonline.org /member-services-jstor.html   (190 words)

  
 Using JSTOR Online Journals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
JSTOR is a good source for older full text journals in fields such as anthropology, sociology, literature, ecology, and botany.
JSTOR offers a Browse option as well, but that only works well when you know that a particular journal is especially useful.
JSTOR presents you with a multi-box that is a bit different than most.
lib.colstate.edu /tutorials/handouts/jstor.shtml   (574 words)

  
 Hope College | Hope College Libraries
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide and extend access to these journals to the entire academic community.
JSTOR's goal is to provide electronic access to back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
The JSTOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of these core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s.
www.hope.edu /lib/support/electronic_journals/jstor/jstor_intro.html   (441 words)

  
 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — JSTOR
JSTOR adds new issues annually either through digital conversion or, in the future, by working with its affiliate Portico, to ingest electronic versions directly from publishers.
Publishers and scholarly societies whose journals are available in JSTOR benefit from high-quality, no-cost digitization and preservation, increased access to their journals, and working collaboratively with JSTOR in serving their communities of scholars.
Finally, JSTOR is being used by scholars and students in over 100 countries, and JSTOR is continuously exploring ways to reach even more users, particularly in developing nations.
www.mellon.org /about_foundation/incubatedentities/jstor   (431 words)

  
 JSTOR Database guide
JSTOR provides a full-text archive of almost 150 core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
You may click on the title to go to the first page of the article, or by clicking on the links at the end of the citation you may choose to view the full citation (and abstract if it is available) or the page where at least one of your search terms is first found.
Because JSTOR shows you the digitized journal pages, the terms you searched for are not highlighted in any way, but in the full-text search you may move from the "page of first match" to other pages within the same article where your search terms may appear.
www.library.wwu.edu /ref/dbguides/jstor.htm   (1816 words)

  
 Introducing JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive
JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve highresolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
It is not JSTOR's intention to motivate subscribers, whether they be libraries or individuals, to cancel their subscriptions because recent issues are available in JSTOR.
Unless prior written permission has been obtained from JSTOR and the publisher of content in the archive, you may not download from the JSTOR archive an entire issue of a journal, significant portions of the entire run of a journal, a significant number of sequential articles, or multiple copies of articles.
www.itc.nl /library/General_info/jstor.asp   (734 words)

  
 Brandon University JSTOR FAQ
JSTOR is a digital archive collection of core scholarly journals.
There are a couple of reasons: The first is JSTOR wants you to select which discipline you want to search, and none are selected by default.
Since JSTOR articles are images rather than full text, you either have to use the Adobe Acrobat Reader or install the JPRINT software on your computer.
www.brandonu.ca /library/help/jstorfaq.html   (455 words)

  
 JSTOR search help guide
JSTOR is a database containing extensive back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
JSTOR's agreements with publishers include an updating provision referred to as a "moving wall." In most cases, the "moving wall" is a fixed period of time ranging from 2 to 5 years.
Everything you need to move through JSTOR is on the navigational tool bar located at the top of the screen.
www.personal.ceu.hu /departs/library/databases/jstor.html   (536 words)

  
 About JSTOR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Access to JSTOR is for UW-W registered students, faculty and staff only.
JSTOR is an electronic journal archival project which provides cover-to-cover full-text access of complete runs of back issues of scholarly journal titles.
JSTOR's agreements with publishers include a "moving wall", a fixed period of time ranging from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR.
library.uww.edu /indexes/jstor.htm   (404 words)

  
 JSTOR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
JSTOR's initial goal is to provide electronic access to back issues of core journals in the humanites, social sciences and sciences.
JSTOR deliberately does not have the most recent volumes of the journals in order to protect the publishers current revenues.
JSTOR phase one (completed in November 1999) includes 117 journals in the fields of: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.
libnet.ac.il /~libnet/jstor.htm   (265 words)

  
 JSTOR for Sociology 101
JSTOR does not include the current issues of journals (except for 25 exceptions); so most material in the database is at least 3 years old.
JSTOR fills this gap by providing access to volumes of journals that are not available from the publisher.
JSTOR provides a limited search engine for it's content, however, because of JSTOR's limited coverage both in terms of chronology and in terms of breadth, it is a good idea to FIRST search using a more robust and comprehensive index such as Sociological Abstracts.
www.library.utoronto.ca /robarts/reference/resources/soc101/jstor.html   (733 words)

  
 Uncommon Sense, No. 120 - An Update on JSTOR
The William and Mary Quarterly was on the forefront of technology when it first appeared in digitized form in JSTOR in the mid 1990s, as part of a pilot program consisting of five scholarly journals in history and five in economics.
Current and future JSTOR projects were profiled, including the addition of links between different articles in JSTOR and to outside content, such as articles and notes in other electronic publications.
JSTOR is also in the process of developing a program that will allow researchers using Google to pick up results from stored materials.
oieahc.wm.edu /uncommon/120/jstor.htm   (1551 words)

  
 Database Guides: JSTOR (Journal Storage)
JSTOR (Journal Storage) offers full text access for a range of scholarly journals in various disciplines, such as African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.
JSTOR is restricted to use by GW students, staff, and faculty.
JSTOR is a good choice for finding full-text scholarly journal articles.
www.gwu.edu /~gelman/guides/database/jstor/index.html   (529 words)

  
 JSTOR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
JSTOR is a collection of full text electronic journals available for downloading and printing.
JSTOR allows users to view and print the full text of journal articles on-line without regard to whether our library has the journal or not.
Once the printing application is downloaded to your computer you may use the Print button in JSTOR, located on the left side of the screen, to print your article.
www.cofc.edu /~seay/library/jstor.html   (366 words)

  
 Main Articles: JSTOR, Ariadne, Issue 18
JSTOR was developed from a Mellon Foundation [3] funded project which had been designed to test whether it was possible for libraries to save space by digitising back-runs of journals.
JSTOR have this taken this unique approach to the storage and delivery of journals to ensure that the appearance of the electronic copy exactly matches that of the printed equivalent (see Figure 2).
JSTOR plan to open out this survey in the US to include non-participants but I discovered that the first two new subject clusters in Phase II will be General Science and Botany/Ecology.
www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue18/jstor   (1512 words)

  
 ASIL - JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community take advantage of advances in electronic technologies.
JSTOR’s primary emphases are on the creation of a trusted archive of the back files of core scholarly journals, and improving access to those back files.
It is the only law journal selected to be part of the first 100 journals available in JSTOR, and it joins a number of political science titles as well as journals in the fields of economics and finance, history, literature, mathematics and sociology.
www.asil.org /jstor.htm   (221 words)

  
 JSTOR
The JSTOR database (www.jstor.org) provides electronic access to the backfiles of a number of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
JSTOR relieves the libraries of preservation and archiving duties while providing access to a number of journals unavailable in any other form.
Since JSTOR uses high- resolution images to store and display replications of journal pages, it is not possible to print out articles simply by using the "Print" button in a web browser.
www.apsanet.org /print/printer_content_5840.cfm   (1064 words)

  
 Wired 8.12: Must Read
JSTOR's arts and sciences archive offers hi-res scans of 5 million pages from 117 journals, some dating back 150 years.
But a search on JSTOR's general science archive turned up what Shapiro says is the earliest documented use of personal computer, in the October 4, 1968, issue of Science.
Shapiro, who is also editing the new Yale Dictionary of Quotations (quotationdictionary.com), credits JSTOR with helping him show that many quotes are older than was previously thought.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/8.12/mustread.html?pg=11   (420 words)

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