JSTOR

JSTOR

Year Joined PERii
2007

Resource Name
JSTOR

Resource Type
Online archive of high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching.

Access URL
JSTOR http://www.jstor.org
ALUKA http://www.aluka.org/

Title Listing
Document 2010 title list (252kb)

Content Overview
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.

Content
An archive 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 800 important scholarly journals in 50 disciplines. Visit JSTOR's Available Collections page for detailed information on the current collections found in the archive.

Subject Strengths

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

Service Strengths
The archive is unique in terms of scale, content, and the significant use it receives. It is recognized specifically for:

  • offering a unique, interlinked aggregation of scholarly works
  • facilitating interdisciplinary and historical research
  • exemplary standards for digitization and completeness
  • interfaces and functionality that support academic use
  • highly reliable access
  • long-term preservation

JSTOR's Program Highlights

  • Under the African Access Initiative, JSTOR has waived the standard participation fees (the Archive Capital Fee and the Annual Access Fee) for any not-for-profit institution on the continent of Africa
  • Under the Developing Nations Access Initiative, JSTOR has waived and or reduced the standard participation fees (the Archive Capital Fee and the Annual Access Fee) for any not-for-profit institution in select developing countries. Please see links below for participation information under each Tier
    • Developing Nations Tier 1
      JSTOR waives its standard participation fees (the Archive Capital Fee and Annual Access Fee) for any not-for-profit institution in the following developing countries: Haiti, Kiribati, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Timor- Leste, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Turkmenistan, Vanuatu and Yeme
    • Developing Nations Tier 2
      JSTOR waives its standard participation fees (the Archive Capital Fee and Annual Access Fee) for any not-for-profit institution in 2009 and 2010 in the following developing countries: Cambodia, Guyana, Honduras, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Maldives, Marshal Islands, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Nepal, Paraguay, Samoa, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tonga, Uzbekistan
    • Developing Nations Tier 3
      JSTOR offers a dramatically reduced fee model for any not-for-profit institution in the following developing countries: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Nicaragua, Pakistan and Vietnam
  • 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
  • Access will also include all collections developed by Aluka, an initiative of JSTOR that has developed a collaborative digital library of material from and about Africa. The Aluka materials will be available from the Aluka website in the near term

Usage Guides
JSTOR provides training guides on their website.

Registration Information
Each developing country institution eligible for access (Document eligibility criteria, 38kb) 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 PERii registration system and select your country and institution.

 Access to JSTOR and collections developed by Aluka is provided via the Internet, using IP addresses that are authorized at the institution to have that access.

Before JSTOR can register any institution for access to the archive, the required JSTOR Network Verification Form must be filled and submitted. 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.

Access Information
Access by IP address recognition only.

Publisher Support/Help Contact
Contact for further information on JSTORs African Access Initiative participation@jstor.org
Contact for technical support techsupport@jstor.org

URL to General Publisher Site
http://www.jstor.org/

Further Information from your Country Coordinator
The details for your country coordinator can be found on your country page. Please use the 'Country Finder on the right-hand side of this page.

Information for Librarians

Platform
JSTOR

Promotional Information/Materials
Printed materials, a Poster (PDF) and Shelf Labels are available via the publisher.

Publisher Newsletter Details
The JSTOR newsletter is available in several languages.

JSTORNEWS English
JSTORNEWS French
JSTORNEWS Spanish

Usage Data Collection
JSTOR usage statistics

PERii FAQs
To find the answer to the most commonly asked questions about registration and access, see the Information resources FAQ page.

PERii Help Documents
Please see the online help documents for further information about INASP policy on username and password access, registration, registration record keeping, downloading from publishers websites, access issues and statistics.

Publisher FAQs
Publisher FAQs are available as a downloadable PDF.
Information about the African Access Initiative Participation is also available.

For further information on JSTOR's African Access Initiative and Developing Nations Access Initiative, please contact participation@jstor.org.