Jstor research papers
Through your ls, primary sources, and bookssearch jstoradvanced searchtext analyzerbetause your own document to search for articles and wikipedia, the free to: navigation, h (includes content in other languages). 5] as of 2013, more than 8,000 institutions in more than 160 countries had access to jstor;[5] most access is by subscription, but some older public domain content is freely available to anyone. 8] jstor originally was conceived as a solution to one of the problems faced by libraries, especially research and university libraries, due to the increasing number of academic journals in existence. By digitizing many journal titles, jstor allowed libraries to outsource the storage of journals with the confidence that they would remain available long-term.
Jstor was initiated in 1995 at seven different library sites, and originally encompassed ten economics and history journals. Jstor access improved based on feedback from its initial sites, and it became a fully searchable index accessible from any ordinary web browser. The success of this limited project, bowen and kevin guthrie, then-president of jstor, wanted to expand the number of participating journals. Until january 2009 jstor operated as an independent, self-sustaining nonprofit organization with offices in new york city and in ann arbor, michigan.
Each object is uniquely identified by an integer value, starting at addition to the main site, the jstor labs group operates an open service that allows access to the contents of the archives for the purposes of corpus analysis at its data for research service. 12] this site offers a search facility with graphical indication of the article coverage and loose integration into the main jstor site. The service does not offer full-text, although academics may request that from jstor, subject to a non-disclosure plant science[13] is available in addition to the main site. Jstor plant science provides access to content such as plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials and aimed at those researching, teaching, or studying botany, biology, ecology, environmental, and conservation studies.
The materials on jstor plant science are contributed through the global plants initiative (gpi)[14] and are accessible only to jstor and gpi members. Two partner networks are contributing to this: the african plants initiative, which focuses on plants from africa, and the latin american plants initiative, which contributes plants from latin launched its books at jstor program in november 2012, adding 15,000 current and backlist books to its site. September 2014, jstor launched jstor daily, an online magazine meant to bring academic research to a broader audience. Posted articles are generally based on jstor entries, and some entries provide the backstory to current events.
4] jstor has been running a pilot program of allowing subscribing institutions to provide access to their alumni, in addition to current students and staff. According to harvard law professor lawrence lessig, jstor had been asked "how much would it cost to make this available to the whole world, how much would we need to pay you? Aaron also: aaron swartz § late 2010 and early 2011, internet activist aaron swartz used mit's data network to bulk-download a substantial portion of jstor's collection of academic journal articles. 23][24] prosecutors in the case claimed that swartz acted with the intention of making the papers available on p2p file-sharing sites.
Availability of most journals on jstor is controlled by a "moving wall", which is an agreed-upon 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 of the journal, which usually is three to five years. Formerly, publishers also could request that the "moving wall" be changed to a "fixed wall"—a specified date after which jstor would not add new volumes to its database. 32][33] this "early journal content" program constitutes about 6% of jstor's total content, and includes over 500,000 documents from more than 200 journals that were published before 1923 in the united states, and before 1870 in other countries.
32][33][34] jstor stated that it had been working on making this material free for some time. The swartz controversy and greg maxwell's protest torrent of the same content led jstor to "press ahead" with the initiative. 32][33] as of 2017, jstor does not have plans to extend it to other public domain content, stating that "we do not believe that just because something is in the public domain, it can always be provided for free". January 2012, jstor started a pilot program, "register & read", offering limited no-cost access (not open access) to archived articles for individuals who register for the service.
At the conclusion of the pilot, in january 2013, jstor expanded register & read from an initial 76 publishers to include about 1,200 journals from over 700 publishers. 5] jstor has been used as a resource for linguistics research to investigate trends in language use over time and also to analyze gender differences in scholarly publishing. A study in computer-assisted lexicology: evidence on the emergence of hopefully as a sentence adverb from the jstor journal archive and other electronic resources". Jstor usage data and what it can tell us about ourselves: is there predictability based on historical use by libraries of similar size?
