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Browse by subject, title, or publisher in JSTOR, a database focusing on the social sciences and humanities.

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Hello, my name is Megan and I’m a librarian at the University of Alabama. This video will demonstrate how to use the browse feature on JSTOR, a database of scholarly resources for the social sciences, humanities, and modern languages.

From the JSTOR homepage, select “browse.” Browse defaults to “browse by subject,” but you can also browse by title and publisher. Both titles and publishers are alphabetized, not grouped by discipline.

Browsing by publisher is very useful if you want to know all journals published, for example, by Oxford University Press. Browsing by title encourages serendipitous finding of journal titles.

On the “Browse by subject” page, the JSTOR disciplines are organized by an overarching subject area, such as “Area studies” and “social sciences.” Resource within “Area Studies” cover more than one discipline.

Some of the disciplines will offer books. However, not all disciplines offer book results, and the University Libraries do not subscribe to all of JSTOR’s books, so you might have to InterLibrary Loan, or ILLiad, a book result. Within in a discipline or an “Area Study,” you can view all of the journals in a specific dicsipline. There is no information about the journal in the subject browse, except its title and date range.

You can run a basic keyword search from within the discipline page. The results are the same as a search from the Advanced Search page.

Selecting a journal from the discipline page brings you to JSTOR’s archive, where you can view the entire archive, from the first volume printed to the most recent issue in the archive.

The title history is also included within the archive, and it allows you to quickly look at articles published under previous titles, without having the leave the archive. This is important for journals such as The Slavic and East European Journal, which is on its fourth title.

However, within the archive, there is a JSTOR quirk, which is that you can’t search within the journal,from the archive. If you want to search within the journal, you will have to go back to the advanced search or know when the article was published. You can copy the title of the journal and paste it into the “journal title” limiter within the advanced search page and search for an article in that journal. You can also get to the archive by selecting the hyperlinked journal title in a record.

That’s all for now, thank you forwatching. If you have further questions, you can call us, text us, or visit ask.lib.ua.edu to Ask-A-Librarian.