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JSTOR®, begun in 1995, is an online system for archiving academic journals. It provides full-text searches of digitized (scanned) back issues of several hundred well known journals, some going as far back as over 200 years. Image File history File links source: http://www. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Academic publishing describes a system of publishing that is necessary in order for academic scholars to review work and make it available for a wider audience. ...


JSTOR was conceived by William Bowen as a solution to the problems faced by libraries, especially research and university libraries, due to the increasing number of academic journals in existence. Most libraries found it prohibitively expensive, both in terms of cost and in terms of 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. Originally funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR is now an independent self-sustaining not-for-profit organization based in New York City. William G. Bowen is the current president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. ... Jump to: navigation, search Modern-style library In its traditional sense, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. ... A research library is a library which contains an in-depth collection of material on one or several subjects. ... The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a foundation endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W. Mellon. ... A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ...


As of October 2005, the database contains 553 journal titles, over 128,000 individual journal issues, totalling over 18 million pages of text.[1] 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Access

JSTOR is a pay service, and mainly sold to libraries, universities and publishers; individual subscriptions are also available to certain journal titles through the journal publisher. Most libraries make JSTOR available to library members free of charge, and many libraries have online access, meaning that JSTOR can be accessed from home for free for those who have a library account with a participating library. JSTOR lists participating libraries on its website.


See also

This page contains a list of search engines and archives of scientific journals articles. ...

References

  • JSTOR, Homepage.
  • Roger C. Schonfeld, JSTOR: A History, Princeton University Press, 2003, ISBN 0691115311

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HEC - National Digital Library - JSTOR (216 words)
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.
JSTOR provides the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
JSTOR Guide (1154 words)
JSTOR is a full-text database (and archive) of over 500 journals in a variety of subjects.
Since 2002, JSTOR has used a new technology to display the high-quality images directly on the page of the article and these are printed as part of the PDF file.
JSTOR is now engaged in a retrospective project to update the previously digitized content to the new standard.
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