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JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is an Internet system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

JSTOR has many strengths. However it is relatively weak on

recent articles (e.g. last 5-10 years)
scientific articles (e.g. computing, chemistry, physics).

JSTOR was originally funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, but is now an independent, self-sustaining, not-for-profit organization with offices in New York City and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

History JSTOR was conceived by William G. Bowen as a solution to one of the problems faced by library, especially research library, due to the increasing number of academic journals in existence. Most libraries found it prohibitively expensive in terms of cost and space to maintain a comprehensive collection of journals. By digitizing many journal titles, JSTOR allowed libraries to outsource the storage of these journals with the confidence that they would remain available for the long term. Online access and full-text search ability improved access dramatically. JSTOR originally encompassed ten economics and history journals and was initiated in 1995 at seven different library sites. Ten additional sites were added in the spring of 1996. JSTOR access was improved based on feedback from these sites and it became a fully searchable index accessible from any ordinary browser. Special software was put in place to make pictures and graphs clear and readable.

With the success of this limited project, Bowen and Kevin Guthrie, then-president of JSTOR, were interested in expanding the number of participating journals. They met with representatives of the Royal Society of London, and an agreement was hammered out to digitize the Philosophical Transactions back to its beginning in 1665. The work of adding these volumes to JSTOR was completed by December of 2000.Taylor (2001) pp. 180-181 As of June 2007, the Bibliographic database contained 729 journal titles and over 165,000 individual journal issues, totaling over 23 million pages of text.

Usage and contents JSTOR access is licensed mainly to libraries, universities and publishers all over the world. Those with Athens (subscription service) subscriptions have access to it. Licensee institutions can make JSTOR available to their members free of charge through the Internet. Individual subscriptions are also available to certain journal titles through the journal publisher.

As of July 2007, JSTOR material is provided by 446 publishers. Nearly 53 million searches of the archives were performed between January and July 2007. In addition to its use as an archive for individual journals, JSTOR has also been used as a research source. The breadth of material in the archive makes it useful in investigating trends in linguistics over time.

The availability of many journals on JSTOR is controlled by a "moving wall", which is an agreed delay between the current volume of the journal and the latest volume available on JSTOR. This time period is specified by agreement between JSTOR and the publisher and is usually 3-5 years. Publishers can request that the period of a "moving wall" be changed, request discontinuation of coverage, or request that the "moving wall" be changed to a "fixed wall". A "fixed wall" is a specified date after which JSTOR is not allowed to add new volumes into their database. A "fixed wall" is usually arranged when a publisher makes its articles available online through a site controlled by the publisher.

Related projects ARTstor was set up as a sister organization to JSTOR to do the same job, using a similar subscription model, and beginning to function in 2004. It gained considerable impetus after the disbanding in 2005 of Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), a competitive online system for images of artworks, set up by a Getty Foundation-led consortium of institutions. ARTstor has gained the use of many existing image databases, and has digitized for the first time Adam von Bartsch, the largest catalogue for old master prints. It contained a total of "nearly 500,000" images in mid-2007. ARTstor website accessed July 4th 2007Other than nine universities in Australasia, four in England and one each in Italy and China, all the 781 listed subscribers (as at June 2007) are in the US and Canada. ARTstor website accessed July 4th 2007

See also

References Further reading

Schonfeld, Roger C. JSTOR: A History, Princeton University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-691-11531-1
Articles about JSTOR

External links

JSTOR - Homepage.
JSTOR -UK/IRE - participating institutions in the UK and Ireland

JSTOR
Scans of print journals, with 10 major math journals (requires subscription).

American Journal of Political Science
Covers research in such areas as American politics, public policy, international relations,comparative

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JSTOR Usage Statistics
COUNTER Usage Statistics. COUNTER reports provide the most comparable data between the previous JSTOR platform and the new platform released on April 4, 2008.

JSTOR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a United States-based online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues ...

Linking to JSTOR
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