JSTOR
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-16
Access to search interface:
open
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
Ithaka Harbors
Location of system headquarters:
New York City, US
Year of launch:
1994
Type:
Digital library
Twitter:
Description of search system (by system owner)
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. We help you explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research and teaching platform. We collaborate with the academic community to help libraries connect students and faculty to vital content while lowering costs and increasing shelf space, provide independent researchers with free and low-cost access to scholarship, and help publishers reach new audiences and preserve their content for future generations.
Notes
Note the difference in search results between the setting "All content" and "Content I can access".
Total coverage:
19.20M
Year-over-year growth (2020-2021):
-27.69%
Subject coverage:
Social Sciences (39.59 %); Arts and Humanities (33.76 %); Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6.39 %)
Retrospective coverage:
1800–2022
Record types:
7
Open Access records:
2.58M / 13.45%
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
sufficient
Backward citation searching:
sufficient
Forward citation searching:
sufficient
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
3
Query
Latency with short query:
3.5 seconds
Latency with long query:
60 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
12
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
25 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
10 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
6
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
7
Results filters:
5
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
94.95%
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
2.51%
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
Full
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
1
Export formats:
5
API:
open
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
1
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
1
