We wish you a warm welcome to this latest post in you UniSkills Focus On… blog series. In this edition we will be exploring a very useful database called JSTOR.
What does JSTOR offer?
JSTOR is short for Journal Storage and is a large archive of over 12 million journals, books, images and primary sources across 75 academic disciplines. Breaking this number down further, JSTOR has over 2,800 academic journals, 158,000 book chapters and 2 million images.
The subjects covered by JSTOR are too many to list but include:
Area Studies
- African Studies
- American Studies
- Asian Studies
- British Studies
- European Studies
- Jewish Studies
- Latin American Studies
- Middle East Studies
- Slavic Studies
Arts
- Art and Art History
- Music
- Performing Arts
Business and Economics
- Business Development Studies
- Economics
- Finance
- Labour Relations
- Management and Organisational Behaviour
- Marketing and Advertising
History
Humanities
- Film Studies
- Language and Literature
- Philosophy
- Religion
Law
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
Medicine and Allied Health
- Health Policy
- Health Science
- Public Health
Science and Mathematic
- Biological Sciences
- Botany and Plant Sciences
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Environmental Science
- Geology
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Statistics
- Technology
- Zoology
What are the benefits of using JSTOR?
As JSTOR is primarily an archive the majority of the journals and books are a minimum of 3-5 years old, so it isn’t a database for the latest cutting-edge research. Some of your subjects require information that is fairly recent, whereas older sources are acceptable in other disciplines. The depth and breadth of the subjects covered means that JSTOR is useful for a large number of students on many different courses, including English, History, Social Sciences and Education.
How to access JSTOR
There are, of course, many links to JSTOR in this piece that you can click on. However, another way to access JSTOR is to go the Subject Resources webpages for English and Creative Writing, History, Media, Music, Performing Arts, and Teacher Training and Education. On each of these pages, in the Journals and Databases tab, you will find a link to JSTOR.
Further Help and Support
Remember, if you need any further help or support finding, accessing, or getting the most out of your resources head over to the UniSkills web pages. From here you can access lots more information, toolkits and video tutorials, book on a UniSkills Workshop and even book a one-to-one appointment. We hope you have enjoyed this post about JSTOR. If so, please join us next month, where we will be exploring the Directory of Open Access Book (DOAB) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
