JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.

myJSTOR

All LETU students have the ability to create accounts with JSTOR. Creating an account allows you to store articles you want on the site itself and view up to 100 articles a month and allows you to compile data from multiple sources into one using the workspace.

To create an account simply click the "Register" link in the top right of any page and fill in your LETU information

The Basics

Basic Search

To search for a topic article or term enter it into the "Search JSTOR" field on the main screen.

Advanced Search

The Advanced Search page can be accessed at any time by clicking the Advanced Search tab at the top of any page.

The Advanced Search allows you to select two keywords, the field they are supposed to fill and a boolean operator. Meaning you can now search two things at once and decide how close the results should be to the give keyword and what the keyword applies to.

Search Results page

1. Results can be ordered by relevance to the topic or by date publication bot earliest to newest or newest to oldest.

2. You can narrow your results by entering a search of only the current results.

3. You can narrow your results further by only allowing results originally published within a given time frame.

Additionally you can select what content you want to appear in the results by clicking the box next to each publication type in the selection bar on the left. This includes publication and subject.

Viewing Records

1. Press the "Download PDF" button to view the material offline in the future.
2. Click the small arrow to scroll through the material on the page in your browser. You can expand to full screen or enlarge the view by clicking the icons in the top left of the preview window. Hover over them to identify them.
3. To generate a citation simply click "Cite this item" and a menu with a citation for the main paper formats will appear.

Citations

On the results page or the article page you can create a citation by clicking the "Cite this item" button.