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JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is an interdisciplinary database that is especially useful for English/literature, history, and political science. In addition to full text of many academic journals and ebooks, JSTOR has a range of collections of primary sources, including 19th-century British pamphlets. JSTOR is great for full-text journal articles on humanities and social science topics. JSTOR – https://www.jstor.org/
Search Tips and Tricks
Use the basic search to search for journals, books, images, or primary sources in the humanities and social sciences in the search box below
For example: “social services”
A basic search for social services presents 1,360,157 results. No filters are applied” to come after “for example “social services”
These Quick options will appear to the right of each item in the results list. These options include downloading the PDF of the article or book chapter, if you want to get it now and look it over later, saving the item to “My Lists” (you will need to make a free JSTOR account for that), and citing the item in several different styles.
Refining by the publication date in the filter menu is crucial for accessing current literature.
If you need current or historical documents for your project, you can limit your search results by publication date. This option appears on the left-hand side of the screen. Just enter the date range (in years) that you are looking for, to get results
JSTOR Advanced Search has search boxes connected with the Boolean Operators AND, NOT, OR. You can add fields below the bottom search field, as well as change the Boolean operator that connects each field. AND will probably be the most useful, however. You can use OR and NOT within the individual search
