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About JSTOR

Access to JSTOR UW-W users only is for UW-W registered students, faculty and staff only.

JSTOR is an electronic journal storage project which archives and provides cover-to-cover full-text access of complete runs of back issues of scholarly journal titles. The UW-W has a subscription to the Arts & Sciences I, II & III collections which include over 300 core journals.

Disciplines Covered:
  • African American Studies
  • African Studies
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture & Architectural History
  • Art & Art History
  • Asian Studies
  • Biological Sciences
  • Business
  • Classical Studies
  • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Feminist & Women's Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Finance
  • Folklore
  • Geography
  • History
  • History of Science & Technology
  • Jewish Studies
  • Language & Literature
  • Latin American Studies
  • Law
  • Linguistics
  • Mathematics
  • Middle East Studies
  • Music
  • Performing Arts
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Population Studies
  • Psychology
  • Public Policy & Administration
  • Religion
  • Slavic Studies
  • Sociology
  • Statistics

Lists of currently available journals, including dates of coverage, are available for the three collections to which the University Library subscribes:

Coverage starts from the first volume in most cases. The current issues of these journals are not available in the database, as JSTOR's publisher agreements include a "moving wall", a fixed period of time ranging from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR. This is to give publishers protection from the threat of lost revenues from subscribers cancelling their current subscriptions.

Faculty, staff and students needing issues of journals not covered in JSTOR should check the Journal Holdings List to see if and where the UW-W holds the needed issue. Many of the current issues of JSTOR journals are available through Project MUSE or aggregator databases.

For specific information about the ins and outs of JSTOR, read the How to Use JSTOR guide created by the University Library.

To read more about JSTOR in their own words, visit JSTOR's About JSTOR page.

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Last Revised: MS - 10/23/2007