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JStor

Access Via: Library Subscription - JStor Website from the Vann Library's Homepage
System Requirements: Internet connectivity
Graphical web browser

Macintosh, PC or UNIX workstations with TCP/IP installed

Direct parallel or LAN-attached printer  
Off-Campus Password: From the Off-Campus Database Menu
Requires USF OneCard, 14-digit Barcode on back
Contains Full-Text: Yes (for many, but not all articles)
Peer Reviewed: Yes (some, not all journals)
Subject Areas: Multiple disciplines including  African American Studies; Anthropology; Archaeology; Art & Art History; Business; Economics; Education; Film Studies; Health Policy; Language & Literature; Law; Philosophy; Psychology, Statistics, etc. The Vann Library subscribes to the following collections: Arts & Sciences I - IV and the Ecology & Botany Collections.
Description: JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines. For more information about the JSTOR collections, please visit Currently Available Collections and Journals.

Originally conceived as a project at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR began as an effort to ease the increasing problems faced by libraries seeking to provide adequate shelf space for the long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR (see JSTOR: The Moving Wall for more information).

We are pleased to provide you with several informational pages in a number of languages to help you learn more about becoming a JSTOR participant.
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JStor

Please note that the most current and detailed information for any database can be found by going directly to the database itself. More information can usually be found in the "ABOUT" or "HELP" sections of most databases. Please contact the library directly (library@sf.edu or 260-399-8060) if you have any questions or concerns as you use any of the USF Vann library resources.

Last Updated 8/25/07