JSTOR

Type: E-Journal

Subject: General and Interdisciplinary Sciences

JSTOR originally funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a digital of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It provides full text searches of digitized (scanned) back issues of several hundred well known journals, some dating back more than two hundred years. JSTOR does not have the most recent volumes of the journals in order to protect the publishers current revenues. Each journal has a “moving wall” of 3-5 years after which the current issues are added to JSTOR Collections. Office of Academic Resources has subscribed JSTOR for CU's faculty, researchers, and students.

How to begin

Go to CU-references under the Office of Academic Resources website

[http://www.car.chula.ac.th/carweb4].

Users are suggested 2 ways browsing:

If choose browse by subject, JSTOR will be available in General and Interdisciplinary Sciences.

If choose browse by type, the database will be available in E-Journal.

Click on title to access the homepage of JSTOR.

From picture, users can explore the database by searching and browsing by subject.

Search

1. Quick search is available in a search box presented on the middle of homepage.

2. Users can change to "Advanced Seacrh" mode that allows you to perform many search terms in various fields, and also narrow results by item type, date range, language, publication title, ISBN, and discipline.

Search Results

In example: Searching with "literature" in abstract AND "realism" in item title, narrow by item type: Articles, Books, and Reviews.

24 results was founded.

- Users can choose to view list of results from publication type (All, Journals, Books, Pamphlets).

- Showing only content users can access is default.

- Users can sort results by Relevance, Newest / Oldest.

- From the list, users can see publication type of each item and every options such as Page scan, Article PDF, Article Summary if available.

- Can Click on "Try Beta Search" to open tools for limitation your results, and view any result with an awesome slide-outed preview as the following picture.

Browse

The database provides 3 ways browsing.

1. “Browse by Subject” is available on a dropdown menu of Browse on the top. Or users can select your focused subject and publication title from a homepage as well.

This following picture shows list of publication titles under subject areas include Area Studies, Arts, Business and Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Medicine and Allied Health, Science and Mathematics, and Social Sciences.

2. “Browse by Title” is available on a dropdown menu of Browse on the top. List of publications will be shown as the following picture. Users can view the results categorized by type.

3. “Browse by Publisher” is available on a dropdown menu of Browse on the top. List of publications under publishers will be shown as picture below. Users can view the list categorized by type.

When users access to a publication's page, you can see its own issues or all archives, and users can use a “search in this title” for searching your focused article.

Export

An “Export citation” tool is founded in every Article's page, and above the list of articles from searching/browsing. Users can click on it, then select any format that's available to you to export.