JSTOR

License Agreed
Participation fees waived for any academic, research, or not-for-profit institution located on the continent of Africa

Service Type
An online archive of scholarly journal literature

Content
JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. The archive contains over 770 important scholarly journals in 47 disciplines.

Mission
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive. Our overarching aims are to preserve a record of scholarship for posterity and to advance research and teaching in cost-effective ways. We operate a research platform that deploys information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. We collaborate with organizations that can help us achieve our objectives and maximize the benefits for the scholarly community.

Titles of Journals
A full alphabetic list of the journals available can be seen at the Journals page

Content Strengths

• Economics
• History
• Political Science
• Language & Literature
• Art & Art History
• Music
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Education

Service Strengths

  • The archive currently includes over 770 important scholarly journals in 47 disciplines, and over 20 million pages of content. Access will be provided to the entire JSTOR archive, including all content added to the archive during the period of participation. Updated information about each collection may be found at Available Collections
  • JSTOR is waiving the standard access fees (the Archive Capital Fee and the Annual Access Fee) to the archive to any academic, research, or not-for-profit institution from a country on the continent of Africa.
  • Access to JSTOR is provided via the Internet, using IP addresses that are authorized at the institution to have that access. An institution must have stable IP addresses in order to participate in this program.
  • As users at participating academic or research institutions will use JSTOR via the Internet, it is important to verify that your institution has sufficient capacity for librarians and researchers to access the archive with satisfactory results. Before JSTOR can register any institution that has expressed an interest in the JSTOR archive, the required JSTOR Network Verification Form must be filled out. Filling out the form will enable us to ensure that your network is able to run JSTOR, and will determine whether any impediments (such as proxy servers or
    caches) exist that might prohibit direct access to JSTOR. Assuming your network is satisfactory, we can proceed with the licensing process for your institution.

Registration
As a first step to your registration, you should complete the JSTOR Network Verification Form which you will find here.

Each institution is required to register to use JSTOR.  If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the INASP registration database and select your country and institution.

Contact for technical support
techsupport@jstor.org 

Websites for further information
http://www.jstor.org/
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/participate/new/fees/africanAccess.jsp