HIST 112 - World History Since 1450
Research guide to assist researchers in location books and journal articles relevant to their course topics.
Library Research Guide
Finding articles in JSTOR
Click through each tab for a step-by-step guide explaining how to find articles using JSTOR.
The databases link is located on the Libraries' homepage in the Search It box.
- Find databases by name. If you know the name of the database, click on the first letter of it's name. To access JSTOR, click on the letter "J".
- Find databases by subject/discipline. These are roughly organized by College/Department. For History, click on: Humanities & Social Sciences, then History.
Bonus: Tags are used to label databases with unique features (lexile scores) or types of sources (primary sources, music, or videos)
Find JSTOR at the bottom of the "J" page.
Advanced Search offers options to focus your search so that you don't get 100,000 irrelevant articles.
- Each line is for a separate concept
- Insert OR between synonyms or related terms to tell JSTOR that you will accept results with any of those words.
- Click "Articles." This removes the hundreds of book reviews that will appear otherwise.
- See the next slide for more selections you can make on the bottom of this search page.
- Limit your search to articles from journals relevant to your topic. (JSTOR's default search looks at all of the disciplines.)
- Not sure what is included in a discipline? Click the arrow to the left of the check box to reveal a list of all the journals grouped under that heading.
- You can un-check or check specific titles from this list, too.
- You can choose multiple disciplines just by checking them.
- Article title
- Author(s)
- volume: 47, Issue (No. 4) (Winter, 2005) Page numbers: 551-570
- Journal title
- Read or download articles
- Sentences from article that include your search terms
- Citation tools–saves to programs like RefWorks. Does not create the citation for you.
- Use the stable URL to share or save the link to the article.
- The arrow turns the pages.
