JSTOR includes archives dating from as early as the 17th century of over 1000 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. For more information about the JSTOR collections, please visit JSTOR's Available Collections.
JSTOR includes the following: JSTOR includes archives dating from as early as the 17th century of over 1000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as 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.
Institutions gain access to the archive and support its preservation by participating in collections. JSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections that include complete runs of journals as well as select monographs, transactions, and conference proceedings. Collection options are designed to offer institutions the flexibility of choosing the collections that are most appropriate for their needs. For collection and title lists, please visit JSTOR's Available Collections.
* Please note: JSTOR is a US organisation, and its privacy policy data is based on US rather than UK or EU law. Therefore institutions should familiarise themselves with the relevant policy at http://www.jstor.org/about/privacy.html.
Main subject areas
JSTOR includes journals and other material from more than 50 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage is significant in many fields including: Anthropology, Art & Art History, Biological Sciences, Business, Classical Studies, Economics, History, Language & Literature, Philosophy, Political Science and Sociology. Seventeen multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections are available.
Academic level
JSTOR is geared towards the Graduate and Undergraduate levels.
Date range
Today, academic journals comprise the majority of the content in JSTOR. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and related titles. The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available. However, users can search this material and link to the publisher's site or other online source for access. Please read about the Moving Wall and Links to Recent Content for more information.
Updates
New content is added monthly or more frequently. Additional years of content in accord with the Moving Wall are added annually.
Publisher's selection policy
The titles included in JSTOR have been selected based on the following criteria: the number of institutional subscribers for which a journal has citation analysis, recommendations from experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been published.
JSTOR Collections - Base Fees
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Multidisciplinary Collections |
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A&S I |
A&S II |
A&S III |
A&S IV |
A&S V |
A&S VI |
A&S VII* |
A&S VIII |
LS |
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| A |
£5,000 |
£4,500 |
£4,100 |
£4,100 |
£6,100 |
£6,000 |
£3,900 |
£5,900 |
£7,140 |
| B-C |
£4,250 |
£3,825 |
£3,485 |
£3,485 |
£4,000 |
£3,800 |
£3,315 |
£3,600 |
£6,070 |
| D-E |
£3,600 |
£2,025 |
£1,980 |
£2,340 |
£2,400 |
£2,200 |
£2,160 |
£2,000 |
£3,480 |
| F-G |
£2,700 |
£900 |
£1,260 |
£1,530 |
£1,550 |
£1,500 |
£1,440 |
£1,350 |
£1,930 |
| H-J |
£1,700 |
£400 |
£640 |
£720 |
£800 |
£750 |
£640 |
£700 |
£800 |
| FE College |
£500 |
£250 |
£400 |
£500 |
£420 |
£400 |
£500 |
£380 |
£470 |
* Arts & Sciences VII Collection was formerly known as the Arts & Sciences Complement.
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Discipline Specific Collections |
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BS |
H&GS |
BUS |
BUS II |
E&B |
L&L |
M&S |
MUS |
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| A |
£4,650 |
£3,750 |
£2,500 |
£1,850 |
£2,750 |
£2,500 |
£1,400 |
£1,400 |
| B-C |
£3,953 |
£3,188 |
£2,125 |
£1,573 |
£2,338 |
£2,125 |
£1,190 |
£1,190 |
| D-E |
£2,295 |
£1,800 |
£1,575 |
£1,200 |
£1,350 |
£1,125 |
£765 |
£765 |
| F-G |
£1,373 |
£900 |
£900 |
£700 |
£810 |
£720 |
£513 |
£540 |
| H-J |
£540 |
£400 |
£400 |
£350 |
£320 |
£400 |
£320 |
£240 |
| FE College |
£300 |
£250 |
£250 |
£250 |
£175 |
£250 |
£225 |
£150 |
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Additional JSTOR Collections* |
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1st Collection |
2nd Collection |
3rd Collection |
| Band |
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| A |
£2,356 |
£930 |
£930 |
| B-C |
£2,265 |
£690 |
£690 |
| D-E |
£1,495 |
£430 |
£430 |
| F-G |
£945 |
£260 |
£260 |
| H-J |
£610 |
£170 |
£170 |
| FE College |
£385 |
£130 |
£130 |
*Additional Collections are African Plants, African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes, and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa.
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Free of charge Collections* |
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19th Century British Pamphlets |
Digital Library of Core E-Resources on Ireland (Ireland Collection) |
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| All JISC Bands |
Free of charge |
Free of charge |
* Free of charge Collections
19th Century British Pamphlets
This collection of 26,000 19th century British pamphlets is available free of charge to UK further and higher education institutions, research councils, publicly funded schools, publicly funded libraries, publicly funded archives and record offices within the UK, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme. Researchers, students, academics and teaching staff will be able to access the digitised pamphlets via JSTOR.
Please see the 19th Century British Pamphlets catalogue page for further information.
Digital Library of Core E-Resources on Ireland
This core collection of 620,000 pages and around 80 key journals, 210 monographs and more than 2,500 manuscript pages is available free of charge to further and higher education institutions in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, research councils in the UK, publicly funded schools, publicly funded libraries, publicly funded archives and record offices within the UK and the Republic of Ireland as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme. Researchers, students, academics and teaching staff will be able to access the digitised materials on Irish Studies via JSTOR from its Ireland Collection.
Please see the Digital Library of Core E-Resources on Ireland catalogue page for further information.
Notes
All prices shown exclude VAT.
For queries regarding prices and discounts, please contact Jana Wagner or Nicole Sierra at participation@jstor.org
JSTOR invoices JISC institutions based on the academic year. They will prorate the annual base fees for all collections in the first year of participation to reflect the number of months left in that year (i.e., April - July). However, JSTOR asks that you please list the full, non-prorated annual base fees for each collection on the Schedule 1 portion of the licence agreement.
Discounts in effect
Arts & Sciences I Collection:
Existing Arts & Sciences I participants will receive the following discounts:
- A 50% discount on the Business Collection fee.
- A 30% discount on the Language & Literature Collection fee.
- A 20% discount on the Arts & Sciences II Collection, Health & General Science Collection and Ecology & Botany Collection fee.
- A 74% discount on the Mathematics & Statistics Collection fee.
- A 10% discount on the Biological Sciences Collection fee.
Arts & Sciences II Collection:
Existing Arts & Sciences II participants will receive the following discounts:
- A 6% discount on the Mathematics & Statistics Collection fee.
- A 10% discount on the Business Collection fee.
Arts & Sciences III Collection:
Existing Arts & Sciences III participants will receive the following discounts:
- A 75% discount on the Language & Literature Collection.
Institutions licensing the Arts & Sciences III Collection will pay the fees outlined in the table above except in the following instances:
Participants of the Arts & Sciences I and Language & Literature Collections will pay the Arts & Sciences III fee noted in the table above less the Language & Literature Collection fee already paid for the current billing period. The Language & Literature Collection fee will be removed from the next billing period.
Music Collection participants will pay the Arts & Sciences III Collection fee noted in the table above less the Music Collection fee already paid for the current billing period. The Music Collection fee will be removed from the next billing period.
Arts & Sciences IV Collection:
Participants of the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will pay the fees outlined in the table above except in the following instances:
Business Collection participants licensing the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences IV fee noted in the table above. The Business Collection fee will then be reduced to 60% beginning the next billing period to account for the journal titles still available in the Business Collection but not the Arts & Sciences IV Collection.
Business and Arts & Sciences I participants licensing the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences IV fee noted in the table above. The Business Collection fee then will be reduced to 10%* beginning the next billing period to account for the 9 titles still available in the Business Collection but not the Arts & Sciences I or Arts & Sciences IV Collection.
Business and Arts & Sciences I participants licensing the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences IV fee noted in the table above. The Business Collection fee then will be reduced to 10% beginning the next billing period to account for the journal titles still available in the Business Collection but not the Arts & Sciences I or Arts & Sciences IV Collection.
Business and Arts & Sciences II participants licensing the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences IV fee noted in the table above. The Business Collection fee will then be reduced to 50% beginning the next billing period to account for the journal titles still available in the Business Collection but not the Arts & Sciences II or Arts & Sciences IV Collections.
Business, Arts & Sciences I and Arts & Sciences II participants licensing the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences IV fee noted in the table above less the Business fee already paid for the current billing period. The Business Collection fee will then be removed from the next billing period since all Business titles will now be accessible via the Arts & Sciences I, II and IV Collections.
Arts & Sciences V Collection*:
Institutions licensing the Arts & Sciences V Collection will pay the fees outlined in the table above except in the following instances, while the collection is being built:
- In 2007/8 and 2008/9, participants of the Arts & Sciences V Collection will receive an 80% discount on the full base fee.
- In 2009/10, participants of the Arts & Sciences V Collection will receive a 40% discount on the full base fee.
- Beginning with 2010/11, the full base fee will be invoiced.
*Please note that the annual invoice for this collection will reflect an additional discount, independent from the % Discount for Collection Overlap (noted in Schedule 1 of the agreement), in recognition of the fact and during such time this collection is not yet complete.
Arts & Sciences VI Collection*:
Participants of the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will pay the fees outlined in the table above except in the following instances:
Business II Collection participants licensing the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences VI fee noted in the table above. The Business II Collection fee will then be reduced to 50%* of the full base fee beginning the next billing period to account for the journal titles still available in the Business II Collection but not the Arts & Sciences VI Collection.
Business II and Arts & Sciences IV participants licensing the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences VI fee noted in the table above. The Business II Collection fee will then be reduced to 40%* of the full base fee beginning the next billing period to account for the journal titles still available in the Business II Collection but not the Arts & Sciences IV or Arts & Sciences VI Collection.
Business II and Arts & Sciences Complement participants licensing the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences VI fee noted in the table above. The Business II Collection fee will then be reduced to 10%* of the full base fee beginning the next billing period to account for the journal titles still available in the Business II Collection but not the Arts & Sciences Complement or Arts & Sciences VI Collections.
Business II, Arts & Sciences IV and Arts & Sciences Complement participants licensing the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will pay the Arts & Sciences VI fee noted in the table above. The Business II Collection fee will then be removed from the next billing period since all Business II titles will now be accessible via the Arts & Sciences IV, IV and the Complement.
Institutions licensing the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will pay the fees outlined in the table above except in the following instances, while the collection is being built:
- In 2008/9 and 2009/10, participants of the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will receive a 70% discount on the full base fee.
- In 2010/11, participants of the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will receive a 40% discount on the full base fee.
- Beginning with 2011/12, the full base fee will be invoiced.
*Please note that the annual invoice for this collection will reflect an additional discount, independent from the % Discount for Collection Overlap (noted in Schedule 1 of the agreement), in recognition of the fact and during such time this collection is not yet complete.
Arts & Sciences VII Collection:
Institutions must license at least one Arts & Sciences Collection to be eligible for participation in the Arts & Sciences VII Collection. Institutions licensing the Arts & Sciences VII Collection in combination with ANY two or more Arts & Sciences Collections will receive the following discounts:
- One Arts & Sciences Collection: no discount.
- Any two (2) Arts & Sciences Collections: 15% discount on the Arts & Sciences VII Collection fee.
- Any three (3) Arts & Sciences Collections: 30% discount on the Arts & Sciences VII Collection fee.
- All four (4) Arts & Sciences Collections: 50% discount on the Arts & Sciences VII Collection fee.
Arts & Sciences VIII Collection:
Institutions licensing the Arts & Sciences VIII Collection will pay the fees outlined in the table above except in the following instances, while the collection is being built:
- In 2009/10 , participants of the Arts & Sciences VIII Collection will receive an 80% discount on the full base fee.
- In 2010/11, participants of the Arts & Sciences VIII Collection will receive a 30% discount on the full base fee.
- Beginning with 2011/12, the full base fee will be invoiced.
Life Sciences Collection:
Institutions may license the Life Sciences Collection on its own, or with any combination of collections. The Life Sciences Collection is combination of the Biological Sciences Collection and the Health & General Sciences Collection.
Biological Sciences participants adding the Life Sciences Collection will pay the fees noted in the table above. The Biological Sciences fee will then be removed from the next billing period since all Biological Sciences titles will now be accessible via the Life Sciences Collection.
Health & General Sciences participants adding the Life Sciences Collection will pay the fees noted in the table above. The Health & General Sciences fee will then be removed from the next billing period since all Health & General Sciences titles will now be accessible via the Life Sciences Collection.
Ecology & Botany participants adding the Life Sciences Collection will pay the fees noted in the table above. The Ecology & Botany fee will then be removed from the next billing period since all Ecology & Botany titles will now be accessible via the Life Sciences Collection. Please note that the Ecology & Botany Collection is completely contained within the Biological Sciences (and Life Sciences) Collections.
Biological Sciences Collection:
Institutions may license the Biological Sciences Collection on its own, or with any combination of collections. Institutions currently participating in the Arts & Sciences I Collection and/ or Ecology & Botany Collection will receive a 10% discount to account for the overlap in journal titles.
- Arts & Sciences I Collection: 10% discount.
- Arts & Sciences I Collection and Ecology & Botany Collection: 10% Discount.
Ecology & Botany participants adding the Biological Sciences Collection will pay the fees noted in the table above. The Ecology & Botany fee will then be removed from the next billing period since all Ecology & Botany titles will now be accessible via the Biological Sciences Collection.
Business II Collection*
Institutions may license the Business II Collection on its own, or with any combination of collections. Institutions currently participating in the Arts & Sciences IV Collection will receive a 10% discount to account for the overlap in journal titles.
Institutions currently participating in the Arts & Sciences Complement Collection will receive a 30% discount to account for the overlap in journal titles.
Institutions currently participating in the Arts & Sciences IV Collection and Arts & Sciences Complement Collection will receive a 40% discount to account for the overlap in journal titles.
Institutions licensing the Business II Collection will pay the fees outlined in the table above except in the following instances, while the collection is being built:
- In 2007/8, participants of the Business II Collection will receive a 45% discount on the full base fee.
- In 2008/9, participants of the Business II Collection will receive a 15% discount on the full base fee.
- Beginning with 2009/10, the full base fee will be invoiced.
* Please note that the annual invoice for this collection will reflect an additional discount, independent from the % Discount for Collection Overlap (noted in Schedule 1 in the Licence Agreement), in recognition of the fact and during such time this collection is not yet complete.
Full Text Linking
JSTOR supports internal reference linking, inbound linking from linking partners, as well as outbound linking to current issues for many titles through the use of the SICI standard. For more information, please go to: www.jstor.org/page/info/resources/index.jsp
Federated Searching
As part of our continued effort increase the convenience of access to the archive, we have developed a new interface to the JSTOR Search Engine. This interface, called the JSTOR XML Gateway, was created to better facilitate metasearching, which is also known as "federated searching" or "cross-database searching."
MARC Records
JSTOR creates and enters new cataloging records or updates existing cataloging records in OCLC for each title, current or previous, in the archive. The records include the URL for each title in the 856 MARC field.
JSTOR does not have local copies of these records, and due to a July 2003 revision to the CONSER cataloging standards, it is no longer possible to download them as a group from OCLC.
Currently, the only way to locate all the cataloging records for each title in a JSTOR collection is to conduct a title-by-title search.
Metadata Standards
As some of our participating institutions have chosen to implement a metasearch engine for their users, we recognized the need to provide both a stable, standardized method for querying the JSTOR archive and also a manner of returning results that could be easily utilized by a metasearch program. To accomplish this, we have chosen the Search and Retrieve URL (SRU) Service as the basis for the JSTOR XML Gateway.
For more information, see: www.jstor.org/page/info/resources/linking/meta.jsp
Search options
Full-text searching is available. Institutions that participate in multiple collections may search across them together.
Post-search options
JSTOR citations can be saved to a Saved Citations List for copying, printing, emailing, and direct export to bibliographic software such as EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, RefWorks, or spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel. Individual citations can be saved by clicking the Save Citation link listed below each JSTOR item displayed on the Search Results and Table of Contents pages.
Usage statistics
JSTOR is undertaking to offer COUNTER-compliant reports as part of a much larger usage statistics development project that will be ongoing through 2006. We expect that when they become available, the JSTOR COUNTER reports will adhere to Release 2 of the Code of Practice (expected to become the definitive version in January 2007).
Authentication
Via the UK Access Management Federation, Athens and IP range.
Personalisation
Users may set certain preferences to personalise their use of JSTOR.
Accessibility
It is a priority for JSTOR to ensure that their content is available and accessible to all users. In order to increase the accessibility of the articles within JSTOR, they now offer users the ability to download articles in TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) as well as PDF and PostScript formats. As a not-for-profit organisation with the mission to act as a trusted archive, JSTOR is in a unique position with regard to making content accessible. Rather than displaying the raw text for articles, JSTOR displays and delivers page images in order to provide a faithful replication of the original print journals. It is through this faithful replication in image format that JSTOR fulfill their not-for-profit mission to function as an electronic archive that can be used as a substitute for the original print material. Although JSTOR have created a full text index for search purposes, JSTOR are unable to display or deliver it to users, because while it is accurate for search purposes, it is not designed for use in connection with assistive technology.
For more information see: www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/accessibility.jsp.