Libguides A Jstor Success Guide For Libraries Managing Books At Jstor

This guide includes information and resources to help participants get the most out of the Books at JSTOR program. If you need help at any time, please contact JSTOR Support. JSTOR provides site administrators with various notifications and reports to help manage each acquisition model for books. Note: If you have purchased books that are not yet available on the JSTOR platform, we will automatically turn on access when those books are released. If you purchased titles through GOBI Library Solutions, you will receive the free OCLC MARC records if you opted in when you set up your account. Books at JSTOR allows interlibrary loan for book chapters.

Please view the Terms and Conditions for details. Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) was phased out in 2024. JSTOR Workspace is a tool for researchers, librarians, and teachers. To get access, all you need is a JSTOR personal account. Once your account is created, you can do the following: For more information on setting up your JSTOR account and using Workspace, pleace check out our Introduction to Workspace page on our JSTOR support site.

Save what you find on JSTOR to your Workspace Learn how to save content on JSTOR so you can easily find, cite, and download it. (3 minutes) Learn how to organize and download content into presentations or handouts. (3 minutes) JSTOR has many book reviews included in the search results, which can be helpful when you want to know if a book will be useful for your project.

However, reviews may obscure the original research articles you really need for your project. To prevent book reviews from showing up in search results: Explore our JSTOR teaching resources for librarians and other educators. Feel free to repurpose in your own LibGuides or courses. Research Basics: An open academic research skills course Email: support@jstor.org Text: (734)-887-7001 Call Toll Free in the U.S.: (888)-388-3574 Call Local and International: (734)-887-7001

Hours of operation: Mon - Fri, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EDT (GMT -4:00) JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. It's true, you can access most COM Library resources at home! COM Library’s catalog, and the thousands of eBooks and articles in our databases can all be accessed off campus.

Just login with your COM account for off campus access. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, images, and primary sources. It covers more than 60 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences and mathematics. It includes thousands of top academic journals from 1665 to 2015 (for certain titles); millions of primary sources, thousands of open access eBooks and high quality art images and media. You'll also find some great features like JSTOR Understanding, and Text Analyzer. © 2026 COM Library 1200 Amburn Road, Texas City, Texas 77591 409-933-8448 .

FAX 409-933-8030 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License It's important to cite your sources accurately. JSTOR can help - each book chapter and article on the site includes a "Cite This Item" link. Select that option, and you will see a new window with a preformatted citation, in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles. Click on the clipboard icon to copy the preferred format. The preformatted citations on JSTOR are updated as the style rules change, but it's always a good idea to double check before submitting your final paper.

My Lists allows you to create multiple lists to store and organize citations for items on JSTOR. You can create multiple lists for different topics and projects. The "Add To My Lists" button appears on the search results list and on the individual article, book chapter, and pamphlet pages. Select "Add to My Lists," then select a list or create a new one, and add your citation. Lists are stored within a MyJSTOR account and can be accessed at any time from the MyJSTOR menu. The citing and export options available from the lists are the same options that appear on search results, item view pages, and Tables of Contents pages.

Citations can be added, deleted, cited, and exported from a list at any time when you are logged in. Sign up for our regularly-scheduled educational webinars and view past webinars on-demand at about.jstor.org/webinars. We created a series of short tutorials to address common questions about JSTOR. These are available here and also on our YouTube channel, within the playlist JSTOR for Librarians. LibGuides can be helpful, manageable resources for librarians and their patrons to start their research or learn about ways to use JSTOR. Here are some helpful topics:

Full-text of older articles in selected scholarly journals (usually published more than 5 years ago). Also includes selected primary source collections, contributed archival collections, and selected ebooks. NOTE: Once an account on JSTOR is created, it is not necessary to create another account to use the other various components of JSTOR (such as JSTOR Contributed Collections or JSTOR Primary Sources). Once a JSTOR account has been made, the same account is used across all JSTOR components. DISCLAIMER: Making an account is not necessary to use JSTOR. If no account is created, the user can sign in by institution.

A section of our own library guide featuring some helpful citing features and an overview of the JSTOR database collections. You can search by entering terms in the Search box at the top of the page. There are more ways to search and browse, listed below. © 2026 COM Library 1200 Amburn Road, Texas City, Texas 77591 409-933-8448 . FAX 409-933-8030 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License JSTOR is a mission-driven nonprofit working hand-in-hand with 14,000+ libraries worldwide to expand access to knowledge.

Together, we make research, teaching, and digital collection stewardship more affordable, sustainable, and impactful for your community. Explore resources, tools, and services designed to help you strengthen collections, support faculty and students, and steward your institution’s distinctive materials. JSTOR Seeklight now generates transcripts for typed and handwritten items, making every word searchable and accessible while keeping editors in control. Available now for Tier 3 participants. Discover the story behind Reveal Digital, an open access primary source collection on JSTOR highlighting underrepresented 20th-century voices of dissent. Learn how library crowdfunding, collaboration, and preservation have built a resource of over 70,000 items.

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